Empire and religion in the Roman world / edited by Harriet I. Flower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flower, Harriet I., author, editor.

Contributor:

Shaw, Brent D., honouree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Rome--History.

Christianity.

Rome--History.

Rome.

Rome--Religious life and customs.

Rome--Religion.

Rome--Church history.

Rome--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The inspiration for this volume comes from the work of its dedicatee, Brent D. Shaw, who is one of the most original and wide-ranging historians of the ancient world of the last half-century and continues to open up exciting new fields for exploration. Each of the distinguished contributors has produced a cutting-edge exploration of a topic in the history and culture of the Roman Empire dealing with a subject on which Professor Shaw has contributed valuable work. Three major themes extend across the volume as a whole. First, the ways in which the Roman world represented an intricate web of connections even while many people's lives remained fragmented and local. Second, the ways in which the peculiar Roman space promoted religious competition in a sophisticated marketplace for practices and beliefs, with Christianity being a major benefactor. Finally, the varying forms of violence which were endemic within and between communities.

Contents:

Germs and empire: the agency of the microscopic / Kyle Harperz

Imperial integration on Rome's Atlantic Rim / Carlos Noreña

The ambitions of government: sovereignty and control in the ancient countryside / Clifford Ando

Contingency and context: the origins of the Jewish war against Rome / Erich S. Gruen

The first Christian family of Egypt / Sabine R. Huebner

Missionaries, pious merchants, freelance religious experts, and the spread of Christianity / Éric Rebillard

Christian piety in late antiquity: contexts and contestations / Claudia Rapp

Ausonius at the edge of empire: consular poetics as cognitive improvisation / Mark Vessey

Peregrinationes in Psalmos / Catherine Conybeare

Muhammad's rivals: prophets in late antique Arabia / Glen W. Bowersock

Epilogue: Brent Shaw: An Intellectual Profile / Peter Brown

Bibliography of Brent Shaw's publications to 2020.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Aug 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-93424-2

1-108-93499-4

1-108-93298-3