Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity, The : Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the Early Islamic World.
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Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity, The : Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the Early Islamic World.
Yazar:
Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma.
ISBN:
9780857719195
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (300 pages)
Seri:
Library of Classical Studies
İçerik:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- John W.I.Lee -- Introduction -- Part I: The Image of Political and Episcopal Authority -- 1. The Adventus of Julian at Sirmium: The Literary Construction of Historical Reality in Ammianus Marcellinus -- Eric Fournier -- 2. Butheric and the Charioteer -- Robert M.Frakes -- 3. Calming an Angry Enemy: Attila, Leo I, and the Diplomacy of Ambiguity, 452 - Michael Blodgett -- 4. "Patres Orphanorum": Ambrose of Milan and the Construction of the Role of the Bishop -- Michael Proulx -- Part II: The Function of Roman Tradition in Emergent Societies -- 5. "Your Brothers, the Romans": Early Islamic History as a Turn of the Classical Page in Early Muslim Thought and Literature -- Thomas Sizgorich -- 6. Spiritual Landscapes: The Late Antique Desert in Ireland -- Jim Tischen Emmons -- Part III: Civic Elites in the Byzantine East -- 7. The World of St. Daniel the Stylite: Rhetoric, Religio, and Relationships in the Life of the Pillar Saint -- Miriam Raub Vivian -- 8. Two Philosophers from Gaza -- Timotheos of Gaza and the Grande Caccia of Piazza Armerina -- Frank J. Frost -- Choricius of Gaza, Oration XIII: Religion and State in the Age of Justinian -- Roberto Mazza -- Part IV: Addressing Challenges to Sacred Texts and Rites -- 9. Origen on the Limes: Rhetoric and the Polarization of Identity in the Late Third Century -- Elizabeth DePalma Digeser -- 10. A Strange Consensus: Daemonological Discourse in Origen, Porphyry, and Iamblichus -- Heidi Marx-Wolf -- 11. Torah, Torah, Torah: The Authorship of the Pentateuch in Ancient and Early Modern Times -- Paul Sonnino -- Conclusion -- Elizabeth DePalma Digeser & Robert M. Frakes -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Özet:
Late Antiquity, the period of transition from the crisis of Roman Empire in the third century to the Middle Ages, has traditionally been considered only in terms of the 'decline' from classical standards. Recent classical scholarship strives to consider this period on its own terms. Taking the reign of Constantine the Great as its starting point, this book examines the unique intersection of rhetoric, religion and politics in Late Antiquity. Expert scholars come together to examine ancient rhetorical texts to explore the ways in which late antique authors drew upon classical traditions, presenting Roman and post-Roman religious and political institutions in order to establish a desired image of a 'new era'. This book provides new insights into how the post-Roman Germanic West, Byzantine East and Muslim South appropriated and transformed the political, intellectual and cultural legacy inherited from the late Roman Empire and its borderlands.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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