Christianity, philosophy, and Roman power : Constantine, Julian, and the bishops on exegesis and empire /
This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the r...
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| Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | Angličtina |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2023
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| Vydání: | First published |
| Edice: | Greek culture in the Roman world
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| On-line přístup: | Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU |
| Příbuzné jednotky: | Tištěná verze::
Christianity, philosophy, and Roman power |
| Shrnutí: | This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the rise and consolidation of a Christian politics of interpretation that relied on exegesis as a self-legitimising device to secure control over Roman history via claims to Christianity's control of paideia. This reconstruction infuses Julian's reaction with contextual significance. His literary and political project emerges as a response to contemporary reconfigurations of Christian hermeneutics as controlling the meaning of Rome's culture and history. At the same time, understanding Julian as a participant in a larger debate re-qualifies all fourth-century political and episcopal discourse as a long knock-on effect reacting to the imperial mobilisation of Christian debates over the link between power and culture. |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online zdroj (xix, 359 stran) : ilustrace (některé barevné) |
| Bibliografie: | Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík |
| ISBN: | 978-1-009-29931-2 978-1-009-29926-8 |