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The Eucharisticos of Paulinus Pellaeus:

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The Eucharisticos of Paulinus Pellaeus:

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Towards a Reappraisal of the Worldly Converts Life and Autobiography

Altay CoşKun

Leiden

Brill

After a sketch of Paulinus' autobiography, his spiritual life is outlined, whereby the view of his adherence to a 'heresy' is rejected. Next the intentions underlying the composition of the Eucharisticos are reconsidered: they are to be sought in the author's need to reassure and to comfort himself rather than to impress his contemporaries. Instead of censuring the poem as marred with inconsistencies-many of which are rather due to modern misreadings-the verses of thanksgiving are viewed as a remarkable and mostly successful attempt at coming to grips with the disruptions and inconsistencies of the world Paulinus lived in. After a sketch of Paulinus' autobiography, his spiritual life is outlined, whereby the view of his adherence to a 'heresy' is rejected. Next the intentions underlying the composition of the Eucharisticos are reconsidered: they are to be sought in the author's need to reassure and to comfort himself rather than to impress his contemporaries. Instead of censuring the poem as marred with inconsistencies-many of which are rather due to modern misreadings-the verses of thanksgiving are viewed as a remarkable and mostly successful attempt at coming to grips with the disruptions and inconsistencies of the world Paulinus lived in.

2006

285-315

Vigiliae Christianae

60/3

1570-0720

Altay CoşKun

10.1163/157007206778149529

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