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The fall of the Roman household /
Edward Gibbon laid the fall of the Roman Empire at Christianity's door, suggesting that 'pusillanimous youth preferred the penance of the monastic to the dangers of a military life ... whole legions were buried in these religious sanctuaries'. This surprising 2007 study suggests that,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Edward Gibbon laid the fall of the Roman Empire at Christianity's door, suggesting that 'pusillanimous youth preferred the penance of the monastic to the dangers of a military life ... whole legions were buried in these religious sanctuaries'. This surprising 2007 study suggests that, far from seeing Christianity as the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire, we should understand the Christianisation of the household as a central Roman survival strategy. By establishing new 'ground rules' for marriage and family life, the Roman Christians of the last century of the Western empire found a way to re-invent the Roman family as a social institution to weather the political, military, and social upheaval of two centuries of invasion and civil war. In doing so, these men and women - both clergy and lay - found themselves changing both what it meant to be Roman, and what it meant to be Christian. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 319 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-308) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511394607 0511394608 0511393954 9780511393952 9780511482724 0511482728 9780521187930 0521187931 1281370363 9781281370365 9786611370367 6611370366 0511391811 9780511391811 0511390645 9780511390647 0511393121 9780511393129 |