From Rome to Constantinople : studies in honour of Averil Cameron / edited by Hagit Amirav & Bas ter Haar Romeny.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cameron, Averil.

Amirav, Hagit

Haar Romeny, R. B. ter

John W. Faires Memorial Fund.

Series:

Late antique history and religion ; 1.

Late antique history and religion ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian civilization.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiv, 425 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2007.

Summary:

From Rome to Constantinople is a collection of articles offered as a tribute to Averil Cameron, the prominent historian of Rome and Byzantium, and Warden of Keble College, Oxford. Opening with an introduction by Peter Brown, who illustrates the sweeping developments in the field and the role of Averil Cameron in them, this volume highlights topics which reflect the breadth of Dame Averil's interests, arranged in the following five sub-sections: Historiography and Rhetoric, Christianity in its Social Contexts, Art and Representation, Byzantium and the Workings of Empire, Late Antiquity in Retrospect. Asceticism and monasticism, cults of saints and icons, Mariology, Byzantine historiography, and art history are but a few of the subjects which are discussed here in the English language by some of the leading scholars in the field. The volume also includes a full bibliography of the honorand, as well as indices. It appears as the first volume of the series Late Antique History and Religion, which is dedicated to the study of Late Antiquity and its legacies.

Contents:

To Make Byzantium Interesting: Our Debt to Averil Cameron / Peter Brown 1

A Historiography and Rhetoric

Eusebius' Vita Constantini and the Construction of the Image of Maxentius / Jan Willem Drijvers 11

The Originality and Origins of Anonymus, De Divitiis / Peter Garnsey 29

Apocrypha and the Literary Past in Late Antiquity / Scott Johnson 47

Strabo and Procopius: Classical Geography for a Christian Empire / Michael Maas 67

Ammianus Stoicus? Reflections on Rulership, Tyranny, and Power in the Res Gestae / Hagit Amirav 85

B Christianity in its Social Contexts

Theodoret of Cyrrhus: a Syrian in Greek Dress? / Fergus Millar 105

Persecution and Donatist Identity in the Liber Genealogus / Alan Dearn 127

Augustine's Commentaries on the Old Testament: A Mariological Perspective / Pauline Allen 137

Do Try This at Home: The Domestic Philosopher in Late Antiquity / Gillian Clark 153

Procopius of Gaza and his Library / Bas ter Haar Romeny 173

C Art and Representation

The Probus Diptych and Christian Apologetic / Alan Cameron 191

From the mappa to the akakia: Symbolic Drift / Gilbert Dagron 203

Interpreting the Signs: Anonymity and Concealment in Late Antique Inscriptions / Charlotte Roueche, Denis Feissel 221

D Byzantium and the Workings of Empire

Byzantine Veneration of the Theotokos: Icons, Relics, and Eight-Century Homilies / Leslie Brubaker, Mary Cunningham 235

Philippikos 'the Gentle' / Judith Herrin 251

'Tortured by my Conscience'. The Laudatio Therapontis: A Neglected Source of the Later Seventh or Eight Centuries / John Haldon 263

The Biblical Past in John Malalas and the Paschal Chronicle / Mary Whitby 279

E Late Antiquity in Retrospect

The Ascetic Portrayed: Jerome and Eusebius of Cremona in the Italian Art and Culture of the Renaissance / Rita Lizzi Testa 303

The Debate about the Ethnogenesis of the Germanic Tribes / Wolf Liebeschuetz 341

Renouncing Renunciation: Early Christian Asceticism in America / Elizabeth Clark 357.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John W. Faires Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789042919716

904291971X

OCLC:

173516086