Format:
Online-Ressource (254 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0812240928
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9780812203462
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9780812240924
Series Statement:
Divinations
Content:
In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early fourth century C.E.
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Identity Politics in the Later Roman Empire -- 1 Philosophers, Apologists, and Empire -- 2 Porphyry on Greeks, Christians, and Others -- 3 Vera Religio and Falsae Religiones: Lactantius's Divine Institutes -- 4 What Difference Does an Emperor Make? Apologetics and Imperial Ideology in Constantine's Oration to the Saints and Imperial Letters -- 5 From Hebrew Wisdom to Christian Hegemony: Eusebius of Caesarea's Apologetics and Panegyrics -- Epilogue: Empire's Palimpsest -- Appendix: Porphyry's Polemics and the Great Persecution -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-246) and index
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Identity Politics in the Later Roman Empire""; ""1 Philosophers, Apologists, and Empire""; ""2 Porphyry on Greeks, Christians, and Others""; ""3 Vera Religio and Falsae Religiones: Lactantius's Divine Institutes""; ""4 What Difference Does an Emperor Make? Apologetics and Imperial Ideology in Constantine's Oration to the Saints and Imperial Letters""; ""5 From Hebrew Wisdom to Christian Hegemony: Eusebius of Caesarea's Apologetics and Panegyrics""; ""Epilogue: Empire's Palimpsest""
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""Appendix: Porphyry's Polemics and the Great Persecution""""List of Abbreviations""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Acknowledgments""
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812240924
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity
Language:
English
