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Being Christian in late Antiquity. A festschrift for Gillian Clark /

What do we mean when we talk about 'being Christian' in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity and Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in honour of the ground-breaking scholarship of Professor Gillia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harrison, Carol, Humfress, Caroline, Sandwell, Isabella
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Corby : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The discourses of Gillian Clark / Averil Cameron
  • Why don't Jews write biography? / Simon Goldhill
  • The Maccabean mother between pagans, Jews, and Christians / Tessa Rajak
  • On the status of books in early Christianity / Guy G. Stroumsa
  • An inextinguishable memory: 'pagan' past and presence in early Christian writing / Josef Lössl
  • Playing ball: Augustine and Plutarch on capturing wisdom / Carol Harrison
  • Fiunt, non nascuntur Christiani: conversion, community, and Christian identity in late antiquity / Andrew Louth
  • Julian and the Christian professors / Neil McLynn
  • The city of Augustine: on the interpretation of Civitas / Catherine Conybeare
  • Christianity and authority in late antiquity: the transformation of the concept of auctoritas / Karla Pollmann
  • Church councils and local authority: the development of Gallic libri canonum during late antiquity / Ralph W. Mathisen
  • The empresses' tale, AD 300-360 / Jill Harries
  • 'Being female': verse commemoration at the Coemeterium S. Agnetis (Via Nomentana) / Dennis Trout
  • Self-portrait as a landscape: Ausonius and his herediolum / Oliver Nicholson
  • Fashions for Varro in late antiquity and Christian ways with books / Mark Vessey
  • The image of a Christian monk in northern Syria: Symeon Stylites the Younger / Fergus Millar.