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Roman imperial identities in the early Christian era / Judith Perkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perkins, Judith, 1944-
- Series:
- Routledge monographs in classical studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Christians.
- History.
- Ethnic relations.
- Romans.
- Ethnicity.
- Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Romans--Ethnic identity.
- Rome--Ethnic relations.
- Christians--Italy--Rome--History.
- Identification (Religion).
- Italy--Rome.
- Physical Description:
- x, 209 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Summary:
- Through the close study of texts, Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era examines the overlapping emphases and themes of two cosmopolitan and multiethnic cultural identities emerging in the early centuries of the Common Era - a trans-empire alliance of the Elite and the "Christians". Exploring the cultural representations of these social identities, Judith Perkins shows that they converge around an array of shared themes: violence, the body, prisons, courts, and time.
- Locating Christian representations within their historical context and in dialogue with other contemporary representations, it asks why do Christian representations share certain emphases? To what do they respond, and to whom might they appeal? For example, does the increasing Christian emphasis on a fully material human resurrection in the early centuries respond to the evolution of a harsher and more status-based judicial system?
- Contents:
- Cosmopolitan identities
- False deaths and new bodies
- Constructing a patriarchal elite
- Resurrection and judicial bodies
- Place, space and voice
- Trimalchio: transformations and possibilities
- Resurrection and social perspectives
- The rhetoric of the maternal body
- Competing chronologies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415397448
- 9780415397445
- 0203892364
- 9780203892367
- OCLC:
- 212893543
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