Pagans and christians in the late Roman empire : new evidence, new approaches (4th-8th centuries) / edited by Marianne Saghy and Edward M. Schoolman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saghy, Marianne, editor.

Schoolman, Edward M., editor.

Series:

CEU medievalia ; 18.

CEU Medievalia, 1587-6470 ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and other religions--Roman.

Christianity and other religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Budapest, Hungary ; New York, New York : CEU Department of Medieval Studies : Central European University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

Lives

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRACTICAL LIFE FOR PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHERS

RELIGIOUS PROFILING IN THE MIRACLES OF THECLA

EMPRESS VERINA AMONG THE PAGANS

JOHN LYDUS—PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN

RHETORIC AND HISTORICAL DISTORTION: THE CASE OF MARK OF ARETHUSA

Identities

IMITATIO CHRISTI? LITERARY MODELS FOR MARTYRS IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY

ASCETIC CHRISTIANITY IN PANNONIAN MARTYR STORIES?

USES AND MEANINGS OF ‘PAGANUS’ IN THE WORKS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE

RELIGIOUS IDENTITY AS SEEN BY SIXTH-CENTURY HISTORIANS AND CHRONICLERS

Cults

THE CULT OF SOL INVICTUS AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN AQUAE IASAE

CONVERSION AS CONVERGENCE: GREGORY THE GREAT CONFRONTING PAGAN AND JEWISH INFLUENCES IN ANGLO-SAXON CHRISTIANITY

IMAGE AND FUNCTION IN ‘CHRISTIAN’ AND ‘PAGAN’ LATE ANTIQUE TERRACOTTA LAMPS

Landscapes

BELIEVERS IN TRANSITION: PAGANISM TO CHRISTIANITY ALONG THE SOUTHWESTERN BLACK SEA COAST (4th–6th CENTURIES)

GLORY, DECAY AND HOPE: GODDESS ROMA IN SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS’ PANEGYRICS

TRACING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN “MAINSTREAM” PLATONISM AND “MARGINAL” PLATONISM WITH DIGITAL TOOLS

Tombs

PAGAN TOMB TO CHRISTIAN CHURCH: THE CASE OF DIOCLETIAN’S MAUSOLEUM IN SPALATUM

CHRISTIAN TOPOGRAPHY IN SOPIANAE’S LATE ANTIQUE CEMETERIES

SOPIANAE REVISITED: PAGAN OR CHRISTIAN BURIALS?

IMPACT BEYOND THE EMPIRE: PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN BURIAL IN IRELAND (1ST–8TH CENTURIES)

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES

INDEX OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72120-6

963-386-256-6

9781003721208

OCLC:

1019979655