This book provides close historical, theological and cultural analyses of an important, but neglected, Late Antique writer, Isaac of Antioch, who was active during the second half of the fifth century. This book is the first English-language monograph on this key figure and also includes the first translation (without the Syriac) of this compelling metrical homily into English, which has at its heart the public pronouncement by a parrot of theological truths. The authors situate this remarkable text in the wider fields of performance studies, animal studies and media studies, all areas that can illuminate essential meanings and implications of the homily.

• Isaac of Antioch
• Parrot
• Syriac Studies
• Late Antiquity
• Metrical Homilies
• Performance Studies
• Christian Theology
• Animal Studies
• Sound Studies
• Media Studies
• Syriac Translation
• Nonhuman

• Front Matter
• A Fowl Theology of the Cross: Isaac of Antioch’s Mēmrā on the Parrot
• Translation: Isaac of Antioch’s Mēmrā on the Parrot
• Interpretative Essay: Becoming Parrot—Voice’s Subject Formation
• Back Matter

Regina, Canada

Robert A. Kitchen

Bennington, USA

Glenn Peers

Book Title：‘The Bird Who Sang the Trisagion’ of Isaac of Antioch

Book Subtitle：Becoming Parrot in a Late Antique Syriac Sermon

Authors：Robert A. Kitchen, Glenn Peers

DOI：https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60077-7

eBook Packages：Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Edition Number：1

Number of Pages：XIII, 129

Number of Illustrations：/

Topics:Classical and Antique Literature, Middle Eastern Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory