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Controlling Contested Places : Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy /

"From constructing new buildings to describing rival-controlled areas as morally and physically dangerous, leaders in late antiquity fundamentally shaped their physical environment and thus the events that unfolded within it. Controlling Contested Places maps the city of Antioch (Antakya, Turke...

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Autor principal: Shepardson, Christine C., 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; List of Roman Emperors and Bishops of Antioch; Timeline of Key Events; Maps; Introduction: The Lay of the Land; 1. The Power of Prestigious Places: Teaching and Preaching in Fourth-Century Antioch; 2. Burying Babylas: Place-Marketing and the Politics of Memory; 3. Being Correctly Christian: John Chrysostom's Rhetoric in 386-87; 4. Transformative Transgressions: Exploiting the Urban/Rural Divide; 5. Mapping a Textured Landscape: Temples, Martyrs, and Ascetics; 6. Elsewhere in the Empire.
  • Conclusion: Controlling Contested PlacesBibliography; Index.