Martyrdom, Motherhood, and the Aetiology of Infanticide: The Legend of Saints Quiricus and Julitta in Early Iberian Art and Literature

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Andrew Beresford
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The legend of Saints Quiricus and Julitta circulated in two different forms. The oldest, the Acta apocrypha, offers an implausible account of martyrdom, depicting the soon-to-be-three-year-old Quiricus as a militantly loquacious evangelizer, and his mother, Julitta, as an avid and enthusiastic disciple. This is the source preferred by early Iberian artworks. Conversely, the accounts descended from a fifth-century epistle composed by Theodore of Mopsuestia depict the saints in an entirely different light. In this version Julitta becomes the centre of narrative interest while Quiricus is reimagined as a figure at a pre-linguistic stage of development. This is the source favoured by medieval Iberian prose accounts. The distinction between the two branches raises questions concerning the relationship between orthodoxy and heterodoxy as well as the specific individual qualities of art and literature. This article argues that critical positions that fail to account for the influence of differing narrative forms will reveal only a small and potentially misleading part of the fuller picture. It becomes important in view of this to adopt a more holistic and nuanced approach towards questions of interpretation, reaching across traditional disciplinary boundaries so as to gain an insight into the richness and complexity of medieval production.
殉教、母性和杀婴的起源:早期伊比利亚艺术和文学中的圣人奎里克斯和朱丽塔传说
圣徒奎里库和朱丽叶的传说以两种不同的形式流传着。最古老的《伪经》(Acta apocrypha)提供了一个令人难以置信的殉道故事,把快三岁的基里库斯(Quiricus)描绘成一个好斗、能言善辩的福音传道者,而他的母亲朱莉塔(julita)则是一个狂热而热情的门徒。这是早期伊比利亚艺术品首选的来源。相反,由莫普苏斯提亚的西奥多所写的五世纪书信所流传下来的记载,则以一种完全不同的方式描绘了圣徒。在这个版本中,朱丽叶成为叙述兴趣的中心,而基里库斯被重新想象成一个处于语言发展前阶段的人物。这是中世纪伊比利亚散文所青睐的来源。这两个分支之间的区别提出了关于正统和异端之间关系的问题,以及艺术和文学的具体个人品质。本文认为,没有考虑到不同叙事形式的影响的批判性立场,只能揭示更全面的图景的一小部分,而且可能会产生误导。鉴于此,采用更全面和细致入微的方法来解决解释问题变得非常重要,跨越传统的学科界限,以便深入了解中世纪生产的丰富性和复杂性。
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Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals
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期刊介绍: Its coverage is threefold: (1) Cultural subjects for the Romance area, in the medieval and post-medieval era (up to 1600). (2) Literature, linguistics and cultural issues in general, concerning the Crown of Aragon and Occitania (and other related areas such as Naples and Navarre). (3) Digital humanities or otherwise methodological studies, provided that they may be of service to the medievalist. This annual publication has been created with the intention of serving as a platform for works that exceed the conventional length of journal articles. Therefore Magnificat CLM will preferably publish long articles, but articles of medium length are not excluded. Magnificat CLM is aimed at an audience of researchers and specialists in medieval studies, especially Romance philology, as well as of specialists in digital humanities. Magnificat CLM consists of a single section of articles, occasionally including a monographic dossier on particular subjects. All articles are indexed. Magnificat CLM published its first volume in 2014.
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