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This book is dedicated to a 'lesser' saint, Irenaeus, who suffered martyrdom in 304 CE. His short-lived late antique cult in Sirmium, his feast day, and an anonymous text about his martyrdom, translated into five languages (Latin, Greek, Old Church Slavonic, Georgian, and Armenian) did not help perpetuate his memory.
List of contents
1. Irenaeus of Sirmium: memory and forgetting / 2. Manuscript geography and memory of a saint / 3. "Remember me on this day": feast days, calendars, and hagiographical collections / 4. Medieval attempts to revive the cult of Irenaeus / 5. "Numberless Ways to Tell a Story": textual transformations of Irenaeus'
Martyrdom / 6. Appropriation of the past: the
Martyrdom of Irenaeus in Byzantine Imperial Menologia and canons / 7. Epilogue: memory of Irenaeus in Sremska Mitrovica today / 8. Afterword
About the author
Marijana Vukovi¿ is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Medieval Literature (Odense). She holds two PhD degrees, one in Medieval Studies from the Central European University in Budapest (2015), and a second in Religious and Literary History of the Middle Ages from the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas of the University of Oslo (2018). Her previous postdoctoral positions include the University of Warsaw (2018).
Summary
This book is dedicated to a ‘lesser’ saint, Irenaeus, who suffered martyrdom in 304 CE. His short-lived late antique cult in Sirmium, his feast day, and an anonymous text about his martyrdom, translated into five languages (Latin, Greek, Old Church Slavonic, Georgian, and Armenian) did not help perpetuate his memory.
