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There is no crime for those who have Christ : religious violence in the Christian Roman Empire /
There is no crime for those who have Christ," claimed a fifth-century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in-depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Chr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. ; London :
University of California Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Transformation of the classical heritage ;
39. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | There is no crime for those who have Christ," claimed a fifth-century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in-depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, a unique period shaped by the marriage of Christian ideology and Roman imperial power |
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| Notas: | "A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature." Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1999. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 396 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1598757881 9781598757880 1282357425 9781282357426 0520930908 9780520930902 9786612357428 6612357428 |