Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 284 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780429448508
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9780429827884
,
9780429827891
,
9780429827907
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0429448503
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0429827881
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042982789X
,
0429827903
Series Statement:
Routledge monographs in classical studies
Content:
"These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE. The common theme of the chapters is the utopian ideals of religious groups, whether these are inscribed on the body, on the landscape, in texts or other cultural objects. The volume is the first to apply this conceptual framework to Late Antiquity, when historically significant conflicts arose between the adherents of four major religious identities: Greco-Roman "pagans", newly dominant Christians, diaspora Jews who were more or less persecuted, depending on the current regime, and the emerging religion and power of Islam. Late Antiquity was thus a period when dystopian realities competed with memories of a mythical Golden Age, variously conceived according to the religious identity of the group. The contributors come from a range of disciplines, including cultural studies, religious studies, ancient history and art history, and employ both theoretical and empirical approaches. This volume is unique in the range of evidence it draws upon, both visual and textual, to support the basic argument, that utopia in Late Antiquity, whether conceived spiritually, artistically or politically, was a place of the past but also of the future, even of the Afterlife. Memories of Utopia will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, and art historians of the later Roman empire, and those working on religion in Late Antiquity and Byzantium"--
Note:
Curating the past : the retrieval of historical memories and utopian ideals / Bronwen Neil -- Julian's cynics : remembering for future purposes / Philip Bosman -- Memories of trauma and the formation of a Christian identity / Jonathan P. Conant -- Augustine's memory of the 411 confrontation with Emeritus of Cherchell / Geoffrey D. Dunn -- Purity and the rewriting of memory : revisiting Julian's disgust for the Christian worship of corpses and its consequences / Wendy Mayer -- Constructing the sacred in late Antiquity : Jerome as a guide to Christian identity / Naoki Kamimura -- Utopia, body, and pastness in John Chrysostom / Chris L. de Wet -- Memories of peace and violence in the late-antique West / Bronwen Neil -- Two foreign saints in Palestine : responses to religious conflict in the fifth to seventh centuries / Pauline Allen, Kosta Simic -- Remembering the damned : Byzantine liturgical hymns as instruments of religious polemics / Kosta Simic -- Paradise regained? Utopias of deliverance in seventh-century apocalyptic discourse / Ryan W. Strickler -- Ausonius, Fortunatus, and the ruins of the Moselle / Chris Bishop -- Spitting on statues and shaving Hercules's beard : the conflict over images (and idols) in early Christianity / Robin M. Jensen -- Athena, patroness of the marketplace : from Athens to Constantinople / Janet Wade -- Transformation of Mediterranean ritual spaces up to the early Arab conquests / Leonela Fundic
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, hbk ISBN 978-1-138-32867-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Utopie
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Religiöse Gruppe
;
Spätantike
;
Geschichte 300-750
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Aufsatzsammlung
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DOI:
10.4324/9780429448508
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Author information:
Neil, Bronwen 1969-
