Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 91 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511802355
Series Statement:
Canto original series
Content:
The Christianisation of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe, yet at the time it was a tentative and piecemeal process. Peter Brown's fascinating study examines the factors which proved decisive and the compromises which made the emergence of the Christian 'thought world' possible: how the the old gods of the Roman Empire could be reinterpreted as symbols to further the message of the Church. Peter Brown also shows how Christian holy men were less representative of a triumphant faith than negotiators of a working compromise between the new faith and traditional ways of dealing with the supernatural worlds.
Content:
Preface -- 1. Christianisation : narratives and processes -- 2. The limits of intolerance -- 3. Arbiters of the holy : the Christian holy man in late antiquity -- Notes -- Index
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521595575
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521595575
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521595575
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Brown, Peter, 1935 - Authority and the sacred Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997 ISBN 0521595576
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521495571
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521595575
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Theology
Keywords:
Römisches Reich
;
Christianisierung
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511802355
URL:
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Author information:
Brown, Peter 1935-
