Catalogo dei ruoli e degli epiteti dell'arcangelo Michele

Anna Salsano

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-296-0

Catalogo dei ruoli e degli epiteti dell'arcangelo Michele

Authors

Anna Salsano

University of Naples L'Orientale

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-296-0

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Studi Africanistici - Egyptological Series

Pages: 318

Language: Italiana

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Abstract: The archangel Michael in Egypt has rarely been the subject of monographic studies, apart from textual editions. In 1959, Caspar Detlef Gustav Müller carried out an extensive work, but it certainly needs to be expanded and updated. This catalogue is intended as a working tool on the subject and contains a classification of the roles and epithets of the archangel Michael between the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 12th century in Egypt, based on a corpus of literary sources in Coptic, including hagiographic sources, homilies dedicated to the archangel Michael, other homilies testifying to him and apocryphal sources. Some comparisons are also made with other types of sources, such as archaeological and magical sources. A final section is devoted to tables containing a complete list of epithets. Through this analysis of roles and epithets, the work focuses on how the archangel Michael was perceived and invoked in different texts produced in various social and cultural contexts.

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Author Biography

Anna Salsano, University of Naples L'Orientale

Anna Salsano is a teaching assistant ("cultore della materia") in "Egyptology and Coptic civilisation" at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". After a Master's degree in "Archaeology: East and West" at the University of Naples "L'Orientale", she obtained a PhD in "Philology and History of the Ancient World" at the University of Rome "Sapienza" with a thesis on the role of the archangels Michael and Raphael in the Coptic tradition (2020). Subsequently (2020-2021), she continued her research on the aspects of the archangel Michael in Coptic texts in a post-doctoral thesis at the “Italian Institute of Historical Studies Benedetto Croce”. Her interests include the analysis of Coptic textual sources and the study of stone architectural elements in Late-Antique Egypt. She has been a member of the Italian-Egyptian Archaeological Mission at the Abba Nefer Monastery in Manqabad (Asyut-Egypt, University of Naples "L'Orientale") from 2014 to 2020.