| Paper 304-b | Constructing the Christian Universe: Use and Interpretation of the Biblical Geography in the Works of Palladius of Helenopolis
(Language: English)
Yuliya Minets, National University, Kyiv / Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Kyiv
Index terms: Biblical Studies, Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Religious Life |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
Heraclea Lyncestis, located on the southern outskirts of the modern town of Bitola in the Republic of Macedonia, became a prosperous Roman City as a junction on the Egnatian road a Roman Imperial road running across the Balkan Peninsula connecting Rome with Constantinople and further with Jerusalem and Central Asia. Heraclea was on the junction connecting the city of Stobi and the corridor of Vardar-Danube and through Via Egnatia with Constantinople and Adriatic coast with Rome. The Roman Proconsul Gnaeas Egnatius built the Via Egnatia between 148 and 120 BC over an ancient route communication, well known for the people's migrations and epic battles.
Paper -b:
Construction of the mental space of the Christian world in the narratives of Late Antiquity was the crucial part of the process of development of Christianity in the 4th-5th centuries, which needed to be supported by elaborated representation of the new world-view. As part of this process, Christian authors rediscovered and assigned the senses to the geographical concepts of the Bible, which includes, firstly, the use and reconceptualization of different loci, topographical names, ethnical, and regional definitions in the light of the Christian religion; secondly, close connection and interaction of the Biblical past and the historical present (Late Antiquity), which is emphasized by the situations, in which new characters live and act in the same places where certain biblical events happened, and this fact is pointedly speculated by authors; thirdly, the introduction of the moral and ethical meanings in the descriptions of the geographical reality. The paper focuses on the case of Palladius, the bishop of Helenopolis (363/364-431), and his works - the Lausiac History and the Dialogue on the Life of John Chrysostom.
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