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1 online resource (301 pages)
ISBN:
9780429827907
Series Statement:
Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Map of the Byzantine Mediterranean 500-700 CE -- PART I Writing and rewriting the history of conflicts -- 1 Curating the past: the retrieval of historical memories and utopian ideals -- 2 Julian's Cynics: remembering for future purposes -- 3 Memories of trauma and the formation of a Christian identity -- 4 Augustine's memory of the 411 confrontation with Emeritus of Cherchell -- PART II Forging a new utopia: holy bodies and holy places -- 5 Purity and the rewriting of memory: revisiting Julian's disgust for the Christian worship of corpses and its consequences -- 6 Constructing the sacred in Late Antiquity: Jerome as a guide to Christian identity -- 7 Utopia, body, and pastness in John Chrysostom -- PART III Rewriting landscapes: creating new memories of the past -- 8 Memories of peace and violence in the late-antique West -- 9 Two foreign saints in Palestine: responses to religious conflict in the fifth to seventh centuries -- 10 Remembering the damned: Byzantine liturgical hymns as instruments of religious polemics -- 11 Paradise regained? Utopias of deliverance in seventh-century apocalyptic discourse -- 12 Ausonius, Fortunatus, and the ruins of the Moselle -- PART IV Memory and materiality -- 13 Spitting on statues and shaving Hercules's beard: the conflict over images (and idols) in early Christianity -- 14 Athena, patroness of the marketplace: from Athens to Constantinople -- 15 Transformation of Mediterranean ritual spaces up to the early Arab conquests -- Epilogue -- Scripture index -- Index.
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ISBN 9781138328679
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138328679
Language:
English
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