Karla F L Pollmann

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Vice-Chancellor's Office, Vice-Chancellor

University of Bristol, Department of Classics, Faculty Member

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Researcher in Classical literature and early Christianity, including their reception through the ages.
Address: Rektorat, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz
University of Tübingen
72074 Tübingen
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Papers by Karla F L Pollmann

Knowing One’s Place:Eschatological Thought in Augustine

Poetry and suffering: Metrical paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyons’ Passio Acaunensium Martyrum

Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity, 2007

Eucherius narrates in his Passio Acaunensium Martyrum that during the persecution under Diocletia... more Eucherius narrates in his Passio Acaunensium Martyrum that during the persecution under Diocletian a whole army of Christian soldiers from the Egyptian Thebais, under their leader Mauritius, was killed at Acaunum in the Swiss Alps. The soldiers died as martyrs because they refused to obey the emperor's order to fight against fellow-Christians. This brief prose narrative had a textual transmission and manifested its influence both in places of worship and an iconographic tradition up to the late Middle Ages. A further aspect of the Passio's reception manifests itself in various versifications of this story that have so far attracted any attention and is the topic of this investigation. The poetic paraphrases of Venantius Fortunatus, Walafrid Strabo, and Sigebert of Gembloux are analysed. The most important changes in these paraphrases in comparison with their prose hypotext are further highlighted. Keywords: Christian; Egyptian Thebais; Eucherius; Passio Acaunensium Martyrum ; Sigebert of Gembloux; Venantius Fortunatus; Walafrid Strabo

To write by advancing in knowledge and to advance by writing

Augustinian Studies, 1998

Tradition and Innovation

The Baptized Muse, 2017

This chapter examines the notion of early Christian literature as an amalgamation of old and new ... more This chapter examines the notion of early Christian literature as an amalgamation of old and new forms and concepts. This chimes with the modern definition of literary genres as open systems with fluid boundaries, consisting of a set of characteristics which can overlap; thus, one work can potentially be classified under more than just one literary genre. The principles advocated in modern literary theory, especially ‘family resemblance’ and participation instead of essentialism, are useful to accommodate historical changes of a literary genre, as well as the formation of hybrid genres for which both the Hellenistic Age and Late Antiquity are famous. The chapter concludes that the cultural transfer achieved by early Christian writers is as much about remembering as about forgetting the past in order to free capacity for a new world-view.

Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions. Edited by Karla Pollmann and Mark Vessey

Non est masculus et femina – Gal 3,28 in Kommentarauslegungen des 4./5. und des 20. Jahrhunderts: Ein nicht eingelöstes Vermächtnis?

English title: Spiritus et Littera: Contributions to Augustine research. Festschrift for the 80th... more

Augustinus, Christliche Bildung (Stuttgart 2002, 2nd edition, 2013)

The Transformation of the Epic Genre in Late Antiquity

The Universality of Augustine’s Hermeneutics