Pierluigi Lanfranchi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Pierluigi Lanfranchi plays a role.
Article
2022 The smile of the martyr Humour in the Beginning: Religion, humour and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism, Dijkstra, Roald and Paul van der Velde (eds.), pp. 82–92 | Chapter
A martyr smiling while interrogated or tortured is a topos of Early Christian martyrological literature. It is also present in stories on Jewish martyrs in the rabbinic literature. Authors of Acta and Passiones often oppose the laughter of the pagan crowd to the smile of the Christian martyr.… read more