TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fowden,Garth
TI  - Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity 
SN  - 9781400844241
U1  - 949.501 20
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abbasids
KW  - Arabia, southern
KW  - Baghdad
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Caliphate
KW  - Cappadocia
KW  - Diocletian, Roman emperor
KW  - Edessa
KW  - Ethiopia
KW  - Ghassanid Arabs
KW  - Goths
KW  - Himyar
KW  - Iberia (Eastern Georgia)
KW  - Indian Ocean
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - Jerusalem
KW  - Julian, Roman emperor
KW  - Kebra Nagast
KW  - Khusrau I, Sasanian emperor
KW  - Manichaeism
KW  - Mazdaism
KW  - Najran
KW  - Nestorianism
KW  - Ottomans
KW  - Romano-Iranian relations
KW  - Sasanian Empire
KW  - Spain
KW  - Umayyads
KW  - Zarathushtra
KW  - commonwealth
KW  - polytheism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of illustrations --; Abbreviations --; Note on transliteration and references --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. The world's two eyes: Iran, Rome, and the pursuit of world empire --; 2. Polytheist Rome: Toward cultural universalism within empire --; 3. The Fertile Crescent: Cultural universalism between and beyond empires --; 4. Constantine: Christian empire and crusade --; 5. The First Byzantine Commonwealth: Interactions of political and cultural universalism --; 6. Islam: World empire, then commonwealth --; Epilogue --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the looser, more pluralistic commonwealths of Eastern Christendom and Islam. With rare breadth of vision, Fowden traces this transition from empire to commonwealth, and in the process exposes the sources of major cultural contours that still play a determining role in Europe and southwest Asia
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400844241?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400844241
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