09 — Legacy and Reception

The modern scholarship on the Córdoba martyrs, and the closing synthesis of Laura’s place among them. The great studies (Colbert, Wolf, Coope, Christys) illuminate Laura’s context rather than her person, since she falls outside their corpus; the collection closes by gathering its method around the thin core of Laura herself.

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the-cordoba-martyrs-in-scholarship.md Modern scholarship: Colbert’s source-study, Wolf’s Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain, Coope’s The Martyrs of Córdoba, Christys, and the recent surveys
laura-among-them.md Laura as a late instance of the martyr-tradition; the meaning of her thin attestation; what the Church venerates in her

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