{"id":50,"date":"2024-11-11T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genaut.univie.ac.at\/?p=50"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:45:52","slug":"generative-authority-the-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genaut.univie.ac.at\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>The GenAut Project is focused on the network of late antique and medieval literary works \u2013 <strong><strong>both apocryphal and hagiographic<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> \u2013 with early Christian figures connected to apostles as main characters<strong>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The project is funded through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fwf.ac.at\/en\/news\/detail\/fwf-start-awards-eur1-2-million-each-for-up-and-coming-top-researchers-from-graz-innsbruck-and-vienna\">FWF START 2024 Award<\/a> for five years (2024-2029) by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fwf.ac.at\/\">Austrian Science Fund (FWF)<\/a>, and is hosted at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/\">University of Vienna<\/a>, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/etfkg.univie.ac.at\/\">Institute of Church History, Christian Archaeology and Ecclesiastical Art<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fwf.ac.at\/en\/research-radar\/10.55776\/STA214\">Grant DOI 10.55776\/STA214<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">&#8220;The martyrdom of the blessed bishop and martyr of Christ, Abba Polycarp, <strong>the disciple of the apostles<\/strong>, which he suffered on the 29th day of the month of Mechir. In the peace of God. Amen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\"><strong>This is the title of the Martyrdom of Polycarp in Coptic as found in <a href=\"https:\/\/digi.vatlib.it\/view\/MSS_Vat.copt.58\">Vat. copt. 58<\/a>, a Bohairic manuscript of the tenth century, emphasising the apostolic connection of the main character. Below can be seen the first page of the work (folio 79r), with the superscript title at the top:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digi.vatlib.it\/view\/MSS_Vat.copt.58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/genaut.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Vat.-copt.-58-f.-78r-sq-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genaut.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Vat.-copt.-58-f.-78r-sq-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genaut.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Vat.-copt.-58-f.-78r-sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genaut.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Vat.-copt.-58-f.-78r-sq-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/genaut.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Vat.-copt.-58-f.-78r-sq-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genaut.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Vat.-copt.-58-f.-78r-sq-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/genaut.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Vat.-copt.-58-f.-78r-sq.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GenAut Project is focused on the network of late antique and medieval literary works \u2013 both apocryphal and hagiographic \u2013 with early Christian figures connected to apostles as main characters. 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