Pagans and Christians in the late Roman empire new evidence, new approaches (4th-8th centuries)
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...
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Budapest
CEU Department of Medieval Studies
2017
Budapest Central European University Press 2017 New York University of Pécs 2017 Pécs |
| Ausgabe: | 1st edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Specimina nova dissertationum ex Instituto Historiae Antiquae et Archaeologiae Universitatis Supplementum
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Auf der Haupttitelseite: Specimina Nova Supplementum X "This collection of essays, originating from an international conference organized [...] at CEU Budapest in cooperation with the University of Pécs on 7-10 March 2013 [...]." (ungezählte Seite 1-Seite 2) Mit Registern |
| Beschreibung: | x, 371 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9789633862551 978-963-386-255-1 |