Christianity In The Later Roman Empire A Sourcebook

Author : David M. Gwynn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441180391

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Christianity in the Later Roman Empire: A Sourcebook by David M. Gwynn Pdf

This sourcebook gathers into a single collection the writings that illuminate one of the most fundamental periods in the history of Christian Europe. Beginning from the Great Persecution of Diocletian and the conversion of Constantine the first Christian Roman emperor, the volume explores Christianity's rise as the dominant religion of the Later Roman empire and how the Church survived the decline and fall of Roman power in the west and converted the Germanic tribes who swept into the western empire. These years of crisis and transformation inspired generations of great writers, among them Eusebius of Caesarea, Ammianus Marcellinus, Julian 'the Apostate', Ambrose of Milan, John Chrysostom, Jerome and Augustine of Hippo. They were also years which saw Christianity face huge challenges on many crucial questions, from the evolution of Christian doctrine and the rise of asceticism to the place of women in the early Church and the emerging relationship between Church and state. All these themes will be made accessible to specialists and general readers alike, and the sourcebook will be invaluable for students and teachers of courses in history and church history, the world of late antiquity, and religious studies.

Author : A. D. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317408628

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Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity by A. D. Lee Pdf

In Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, A.D. Lee documents the transformation of the religious landscape of the Roman world from one of enormous diversity of religious practices and creeds in the 3rd century to a situation where, by the 6th century, Christianity had become the dominant religious force. Using translated extracts from contemporary sources he examines the fortunes of pagans and Christians from the upheavals of the 3rd Century, through the dramatic events associated with the emperors Constantine, Julian and Theodosius in the 4th, to the increasingly tumultuous times of the 5th and 6th centuries, while also illustrating important themes in late antique Christianity such as the growth of monasticism, the emerging power of bishops and the development of pilgrimage, as well as the fate of other significant religious groups including Jews and Manichaeans. This new edition has been updated to include: additional documentary material, including newly published papyri an expanded chapter on the emperor Constantine greater attention to church controversies in the fourth and fifth centuries thoroughly updated references and further reading, taking into account developments in modern scholarship during the past fifteen years. Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity is an invaluable resource for students of the late antique world, and of early Christianity and the early Church.

Author : Dirk Rohmann
Publisher : UTB GmbH
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783825252854

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Christianity and the History of Violence in the Roman Empire by Dirk Rohmann Pdf

Das Buch präsentiert eine Vielzahl an Quellen des 1. bis 7. Jh.s., welche das Problem der religiösen Gewalt hinsichtlich der Christianisierung des Römischen Reiches und der germanischen Nachfolgestaaten veranschaulichen. Die Quellen werden in den Originalsprachen und neuen Übersetzungen dargeboten und sind mit Einleitungen, Kommentaren und Kurzbibliographien versehen.

Author : David M. Gwynn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441137357

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Christianity in the Later Roman Empire: A Sourcebook by David M. Gwynn Pdf

This sourcebook gathers into a single collection the writings that illuminate one of the most fundamental periods in the history of Christian Europe. Beginning from the Great Persecution of Diocletian and the conversion of Constantine the first Christian Roman emperor, the volume explores Christianity's rise as the dominant religion of the Later Roman empire and how the Church survived the decline and fall of Roman power in the west and converted the Germanic tribes who swept into the western empire. These years of crisis and transformation inspired generations of great writers, among them Eusebius of Caesarea, Ammianus Marcellinus, Julian 'the Apostate', Ambrose of Milan, John Chrysostom, Jerome and Augustine of Hippo. They were also years which saw Christianity face huge challenges on many crucial questions, from the evolution of Christian doctrine and the rise of asceticism to the place of women in the early Church and the emerging relationship between Church and state. All these themes will be made accessible to specialists and general readers alike, and the sourcebook will be invaluable for students and teachers of courses in history and church history, the world of late antiquity, and religious studies.

Author : Michael Maas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136617034

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Readings in Late Antiquity by Michael Maas Pdf

Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new definitions of identity and community. The Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe to be replaced by new "Germanic" kingdoms. In the East, Byzantium emerged, while the Persian Empire reached its apogee and collapsed. Arab armies carrying the banner of Islam reshaped the political map and brought the late antique era to a close. This sourcebook illustrates the dramatic political, social and religious transformations of Late Antiquity through the words of the men and women who experienced them. Drawing from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Hebrew, Coptic, Persian, Arabic and Armenian sources, the carefully chosen passages illuminate the lives of emperors, abbesses, aristocrats, slaves, children, barbarian chieftains, and saints . The Roman Empire is kept at the centre of the discussion, with chapters devoted to its government, cities, army, law, medicine, domestic life, philosophy, Christianity, polytheism, and Jews. Further chapters deal with the peoples who surrounded the Roman state: Persians, Huns, northern "Germanic" barbarians, and the followers of Islam. This revised and updated second edition provides an expanded view of Late Antiquity with a new chapter on domestic life, as well extra material throughout, including passages that appear for the first time in English translation. Readings in Late Antiquity is the only sourcebook that covers such a wide range of topics over the full breadth of the late antique period.

Author : Ramsay MacMullen,Eugene Lane
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451407858

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Paganism and Christianity, 100-425 C.E. by Ramsay MacMullen,Eugene Lane Pdf

This book is a collection of nearly 175 documents?from saints, emperors, philosophers, satirists, inscriptions, graffiti, and other interesting types?that sheds light on the complex fabric of religious belief as it changed from a variety of non-Judeo-Christian movements to Christian in late antiquity. These texts illuminate and bring to life the bizarre and the banal of the social world of the Roman Empire, the world in which Christianity ultimately gained preeminence. This treasury of texts leads the reader through the matrix of beliefs among which Christianity grew. It includes both Christian and non-Christian sources, avoiding a common but obscuring division between the two. The material is presented as one single flow that satisfies natural curiosity and whets the reader's appetite for more. Brief explanatory introductions to the documents are included.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1316141594

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Religions of Rome by Mary Beard Pdf

Author : Michael Maas
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 0415159873

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Readings in Late Antiquity by Michael Maas Pdf

This volume seeks to make accessible to students a multiplicity of texts which illuminate the history, culture, medicine, philosophy, religion and peoples of late antiquity.

Author : Mary Beard,John North,Simon Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521456460

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Religions of Rome: Volume 2, A Sourcebook by Mary Beard,John North,Simon Price Pdf

Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts as a starting point for further discussion. Through paintings, sculptures, coins and inscriptions, as well as literary texts in translation, the book explores the major themes and problems of Roman religion, such as sacrifice, the religious calendar, divination, ritual, and priesthood. Starting from the archaeological traces of the earliest cults of the city, it finishes with a series of texts in which Roman authors themselves reflect on the nature of their own religion, its history, even its funny side. Judaism and Christianity are given full coverage, as important elements in the religious world of the Roman empire.

Author : Ramsay MacMullen,Eugene Lane
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800626478

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Paganism and Christianity, 100-425 C.E. by Ramsay MacMullen,Eugene Lane Pdf

This book is a collection of nearly 175 documentsfrom saints, emperors, philosophers, satirists, inscriptions, graffiti, and other interesting typesthat sheds light on the complex fabric of religious belief as it changed from a variety of non-Judeo-Christian movements to Christian in late antiquity. These texts illuminate and bring to life the bizarre and the banal of the social world of the Roman Empire, the world in which Christianity ultimately gained preeminence. This treasury of texts leads the reader through the matrix of beliefs among which Christianity grew. It includes both Christian and non-Christian sources, avoiding a common but obscuring division between the two. The material is presented as one single flow that satisfies natural curiosity and whets the reader's appetite for more. Brief explanatory introductions to the documents are included.

Author : Marianne Saghy,Edward M. Schoolman
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633862551

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Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire by Marianne Saghy,Edward M. Schoolman Pdf

Do the terms ?pagan? and ?Christian,? ?transition from paganism to Christianity? still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting ?pagans? and ?Christians? in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between ?pagans? and ?Christians? replaced the old ?conflict model? with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if ?paganism? had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, ?Christianity? came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, ?pagans? and ?Christians? lived ?in between? polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies. ÿ

Author : Andrew Cain,Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0754667251

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The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity by Andrew Cain,Noel Emmanuel Lenski Pdf

Late Antiquity witnessed a dramatic recalibration in the economy of power, and nowhere was this more pronounced than in the realm of religion. The transformations that occurred in this pivotal era moved the ancient world into the Middle Ages and forever changed the way that religion was practiced. The twenty eight studies in this volume explore this shift using evidence ranging from Latin poetic texts, to Syriac letter collections, to the iconography of Roman churches and Merowingian mortuary goods.The kaleidoscope of perspectives they provide creates a richly illuminating volume that add a new social and political dimension to current debates about religion in Late Antiquity.

Author : E. L. Woodward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1332541895

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Christianity and Nationalism in the Later Roman Empire (Classic Reprint) by E. L. Woodward Pdf

Excerpt from Christianity and Nationalism in the Later Roman Empire In these days, some personal explanation is needed to justify the publishing of an historical essay. On going down from Oxford in 1913, I was able - through the kindness of the President and Fellows of S. John's College and the Trustees of the Aubrey Moore Studentship - to plan out for myself a long period of research work in certain foreign Universities. It was my intention to spend the first year of the time in Paris; the second year in Freiburg, Wurzburg, and Munich; and, possibly, a third year in Kieff, Moscow, and Petrograd. This essay is - in its present state - part of the result of the year spent in Paris. I chose Paris because I thought that - in spite of the English tradition to the contrary - French scholarship was wider, deeper, and more balanced than German. A closer acquaintance with the work of French scholars more than justified this choice. I found - in the sphere of late Roman history - little or nothing of the political bias that has distorted nearly every word written by Germans about the first six centuries of the Christian era. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author : A. D. Lee
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748631759

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From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565 by A. D. Lee Pdf

Between the deaths of the Emperors Julian (363) and Justinian (565), the Roman Empire underwent momentous changes. Most obviously, control of the west was lost to barbarian groups during the fifth century, and although parts were recovered by Justinian, the empire's centre of gravity shifted irrevocably to the east, with its focal point now the city of Constantinople. Equally important was the increasing dominance of Christianity not only in religious life, but also in politics, society and culture. Doug Lee charts these and other significant developments which contributed to the transformation of ancient Rome and its empire into Byzantium and the early medieval west. By emphasising the resilience of the east during late antiquity and the continuing vitality of urban life and the economy, this volume offers an alternative perspective to the traditional paradigm of decline and fall.

Author : Ramsay MacMullen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300036426

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Christianizing the Roman Empire by Ramsay MacMullen Pdf

Offers a secular perspective on the growth of the Christian Church in ancient Rome, identifies nonreligious factors in conversion, and examines the influence of Constantine