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Christianity, book-burning and censorship in late antiquity : studies in text transmission / Dirk Rohmann.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) BR115.C38 R64 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rohmann, Dirk, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Censorship--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
- Censorship.
- Prohibited books--History.
- Prohibited books.
- Book burning--History.
- Book burning.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Censorship--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Waco, Tx : Baylor University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Author Dirk Rohmann assembles the evidence for the role played in book-burning by Christian institutions, writers, and saints during the Roman Empire. While book-burning functioned as a recognized cultural practice, and Rohmann acknowledges the wide variety of motivations at work in the various practices of censorhip, he ultimately asks to what extent Christian book-burning and accompanying practices negatively affected the survival of pagan and pre-Christian literary and philosophical texts. Christianity's rejection, even obliteration, of books--so contrary to its own worldview--testifies both to the perilous nature of texts in transmission as well as to the enduring cultural and ideological power of the written word"--back cover of book.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Great Persecution, the Emperor Julian and Christian reactions
- Fahrenheit AD 451 : imperial legislation and public authority
- Holy men, clerics and ascetics
- Materialist philosophy
- Moral disapproval of literary genres
- Destruction of libraries
- The post-Roman successor states
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Reprint of the original work from De Gruyter.
- Includes bibiography (pages 303-324) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1481307827
- 9781481307826
- OCLC:
- 984542232
- Publisher Number:
- 99978235675
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