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CEU Medievalia. Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire : New Evidence, New Approaches (4th–8th centuries) / ed. by Edward M. Schoolman, Marianne Sághy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CEU MedievaliaPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (382 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789633862568
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200.9/015 23
LOC classification:
  • BR128.R7
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Lives -- THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRACTICAL LIFE FOR PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHERS -- RELIGIOUS PROFILING IN THE MIRACLES OF THECLA -- EMPRESS VERINA AMONG THE PAGANS -- JOHN LYDUS—PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN -- RHETORIC AND HISTORICAL DISTORTION: THE CASE OF MARK OF ARETHUSA -- Identities -- IMITATIO CHRISTI? LITERARY MODELS FOR MARTYRS IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY -- ASCETIC CHRISTIANITY IN PANNONIAN MARTYR STORIES? -- USES AND MEANINGS OF ‘PAGANUS’ IN THE WORKS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE -- RELIGIOUS IDENTITY AS SEEN BY SIXTH-CENTURY HISTORIANS AND CHRONICLERS -- Cults -- THE CULT OF SOL INVICTUS AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN AQUAE IASAE -- CONVERSION AS CONVERGENCE: GREGORY THE GREAT CONFRONTING PAGAN AND JEWISH INFLUENCES IN ANGLO-SAXON CHRISTIANITY -- IMAGE AND FUNCTION IN ‘CHRISTIAN’ AND ‘PAGAN’ LATE ANTIQUE TERRACOTTA LAMPS -- Landscapes -- BELIEVERS IN TRANSITION: PAGANISM TO CHRISTIANITY ALONG THE SOUTHWESTERN BLACK SEA COAST (4th–6th CENTURIES) -- GLORY, DECAY AND HOPE: GODDESS ROMA IN SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS’ PANEGYRICS -- TRACING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN “MAINSTREAM” PLATONISM AND “MARGINAL” PLATONISM WITH DIGITAL TOOLS -- Tombs -- PAGAN TOMB TO CHRISTIAN CHURCH: THE CASE OF DIOCLETIAN’S MAUSOLEUM IN SPALATUM -- CHRISTIAN TOPOGRAPHY IN SOPIANAE’S LATE ANTIQUE CEMETERIES -- SOPIANAE REVISITED: PAGAN OR CHRISTIAN BURIALS? -- IMPACT BEYOND THE EMPIRE: PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN BURIAL IN IRELAND (1ST–8TH CENTURIES) -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES -- INDEX OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES
Summary: Do the terms 'pagan' and 'Christian,' 'transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting 'pagans' and 'Christians' in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between 'pagans' and 'Christians' replaced the old 'conflict model' with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if 'paganism' had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, 'Christianity' came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, 'pagans' and 'Christians' lived 'in between' polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies.
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Lives -- THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRACTICAL LIFE FOR PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHERS -- RELIGIOUS PROFILING IN THE MIRACLES OF THECLA -- EMPRESS VERINA AMONG THE PAGANS -- JOHN LYDUS—PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN -- RHETORIC AND HISTORICAL DISTORTION: THE CASE OF MARK OF ARETHUSA -- Identities -- IMITATIO CHRISTI? LITERARY MODELS FOR MARTYRS IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY -- ASCETIC CHRISTIANITY IN PANNONIAN MARTYR STORIES? -- USES AND MEANINGS OF ‘PAGANUS’ IN THE WORKS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE -- RELIGIOUS IDENTITY AS SEEN BY SIXTH-CENTURY HISTORIANS AND CHRONICLERS -- Cults -- THE CULT OF SOL INVICTUS AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN AQUAE IASAE -- CONVERSION AS CONVERGENCE: GREGORY THE GREAT CONFRONTING PAGAN AND JEWISH INFLUENCES IN ANGLO-SAXON CHRISTIANITY -- IMAGE AND FUNCTION IN ‘CHRISTIAN’ AND ‘PAGAN’ LATE ANTIQUE TERRACOTTA LAMPS -- Landscapes -- BELIEVERS IN TRANSITION: PAGANISM TO CHRISTIANITY ALONG THE SOUTHWESTERN BLACK SEA COAST (4th–6th CENTURIES) -- GLORY, DECAY AND HOPE: GODDESS ROMA IN SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS’ PANEGYRICS -- TRACING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN “MAINSTREAM” PLATONISM AND “MARGINAL” PLATONISM WITH DIGITAL TOOLS -- Tombs -- PAGAN TOMB TO CHRISTIAN CHURCH: THE CASE OF DIOCLETIAN’S MAUSOLEUM IN SPALATUM -- CHRISTIAN TOPOGRAPHY IN SOPIANAE’S LATE ANTIQUE CEMETERIES -- SOPIANAE REVISITED: PAGAN OR CHRISTIAN BURIALS? -- IMPACT BEYOND THE EMPIRE: PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN BURIAL IN IRELAND (1ST–8TH CENTURIES) -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES -- INDEX OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

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Do the terms 'pagan' and 'Christian,' 'transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting 'pagans' and 'Christians' in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between 'pagans' and 'Christians' replaced the old 'conflict model' with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if 'paganism' had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, 'Christianity' came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, 'pagans' and 'Christians' lived 'in between' polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies.

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