Tradizione e traduzione. Il De Pallio di Tertulliano
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In the short work De Pallio Tertullian reports the Christian use of the pallium to the Carthaginian tradition, showing how the construction of Christian identity is also based on pre-Roman tradition. The autoethnography that Tertullian carries out in this treatise shows how he tries to insert the new religion within the North African cultural heritage, reevaluating the ancient non-Roman traditions, within the framework of the cultural rearrangement of the post-Punic identity horizon. Finding a new meaning to one’s life means reformulating one’s identity in dialectical terms. In the chronological scansion of anamnesis, diagnosis, prognosis, that is, of past, present, future, there is no doubt that the negotiation between the different moments serves to structure identity.
Source: TranScript
Author: Alessandro Campus
Institution: University of Rome Tor Vergata
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405349663