ENGC30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hagiography
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During this period christians throughout the roman empire were being persecuted by the government. Christianity is just beginning to spread in rome. Used to describe christs death and the death of martyrs. Martyrs describes those who witness i. e. testify to their faith, eventually comes to apply to those who die for their faith. Relics remains of a saint, mediate between a person in this earth and a saint in the next life. Between physical and spiritual world, connection with the dead. Iconography a writing in images, is a way of thinking about images as a language. A lady with a crown is a martyr. Their death grants them immediate access to the next world,and that death is a kind of victory , an ascension to paradise. 119 first, point to notice is that she needed to be turned into a man to be able to fight in a battle.
