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SUMMARY:Dreams of Paradise - Dr Jane McLarty (Faculty of Divinity\, Univer
 sity of Cambridge &amp\; Wolfson College)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:The place is Roman North Africa\; the scene\, Christians facin
 g the prospect of martyrdom\, and telling of their dreams of Paradise\, in
  two narratives dating to the second and third centuries CE. Their visions
  borrow richly from pagan imagery around the ‘locus amoenus’\, the ple
 asant place of classical literature. This (illustrated!) talk will seek to
  ground their imagery of the afterlife not only in literary but in materia
 l culture\, showing how they seek to appropriate the joys of elite existen
 ce as consolation for their suffering at the hands of the governing class 
 on earth.\n\nRegister "here":https://wolfson-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/reg
 ister/6616099379293/WN_AR3fINL_RjKjMHKrHWZIaw
LOCATION:Wolfson College Zoom webinar
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