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Theses and Dissertations--History
2017
History
Historiography and Hierotopy: Palestinian Hagiography in the
Sixth Century A.D.
Rod M. Stearn
University of Kentucky,
stearno79@hotmail.com
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Theses and Dissertations--History.
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Dr. Scott Taylor, Director of Graduate Studies
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND HIEROTOPY:
PALESTINIAN HAGIOGRAPHY
IN THE SIXTH CENTURY A.D.
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DISSERTATION
__________________________________________
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the
College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky
By
Rod M. Stearn
Director: Dr. David Olster
Professor of History
Lexington, KY
2017
Copyright © Rod M. Stearn 2017
ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND HIEROTOPY:
PALESTINIAN HAGIOGRAPHY IN THE
SIXTH CENTURY A.D.
Judean hagiographies are unusual. Some are unexpectedly structured: a saint’s life in
the form of a history text. Others offer surprising content. Expected hagiographic stylizations,
for example, often depict moments in which the saint is offered money for a miracle. In such
cases the saint invariably refuses. Judean saints, however, accept gratitude willingly – often
with cash amounts recorded.
The peculiarities of these works have regularly been examined on literary and
theological grounds. In this dissertation I propose a different approach: socio-economic context.
The monasteries that produced these texts were utterly dominated by the environment of
Christian Jerusalem. Although often commented upon, the unmined implications of this reality
hold the key to understanding these hagiographies. It is only by examining these monasteries’
ties to – and embeddedness within – their peculiar context that we can perceive the mindset
that produced such baffling texts.
Lengthy historical, literary, and archaeological analysis force Judean hagiography to give
up its secrets. These works were in fact not odd at all. Rather, they were hyper-specialized, a
unique adaptation to a unique environment. True, we do not see their like in other eastern
regions over the span of late antiquity. Yet this is to be expected. Nowhere else can we find the
particular conditions that brought these works into being. Nor can we understand the Judean
works absent their milieu. It is only upon the foundation of layers of context that these
hagiographies stand high enough to view. They were, most accurately, Holy Land hagiographies:
a label as unique as the land that produced them.
KEYWORDS: Palestinian Hagiography, Cyril of Scythopolis, Hierotopy, Networks, Context.
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND HIEROTOPY:
PALESTINIAN HAGIOGRAPHY IN THE
SIXTH CENTURY A.D.
By
Rod M. Stearn
___David Olster________________
Director of Dissertation
___Scott Taylor________________
Director of Graduate Studies
____4/28/17___________________

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