1st Edition

Irenaeus of Sirmium and His Story in the Medieval East and West Remembering a Lesser Saint

By Marijana Vuković Copyright 2024
222 Pages 9 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 9 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 9 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The study of hagiographies has generally been focused on the more prominent saints of late antiquity and the Middle Ages who inspired significant and long-lasting veneration. However, this has caused many less-well-known saints to be pushed aside and forgotten. This book is a study into one such saint, Irenaeus, a martyr who was killed in 304 CE in Sirmium, Pannonia. His short-lived cult, his... Read more

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

Biography

Marijana Vuković 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).