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Roman defeat, Christian response, and the literary construction of the Jew /

Olster explores Byzantine Christian reactions to the catastrophic Persian and Arab invasions, challenging long-held assumptions that divided "religious" from "secular" literature and exempted religion from contemporary social, political, and intellectual discourse

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olster, David Michael, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1994.
Colección:Middle Ages series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Politics and Theology: The Anachronism of Modern Scholarship
  • 2. Christianity: The Imperial Religion
  • 3. Crisis and Response: The "New" Rhetoric of George of Pisidia
  • 4. A Tale of Two Cities
  • 5. Christians Without an Empire: The Patriarch Sophronius
  • 6. "We Are Still Better Than You": The Syrian Dialogues
  • 7. Gregentius and Herbanus: The New Christian Patria
  • 8. A Jewish-Christian Dialogue: The Exception to the Rule
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index