Power And Persuasion In Late Antiquity
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Author | : Peter Brown |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299133443 |
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A preliminary report on continuing research into the political, cultural, and religious milieu of the later Roman Empire, from a humanist historiographic perspective. Discusses autocracy and the elites, power, poverty, and the forging of a Christian empire. Does not assume a knowledge of Latin. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Peter Brown |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1989-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520068001 |
Download Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
With the blend of art and learning that is the hallmark of his work, Peter Brown here examines how the sacred impinged upon the profane during the first Christian millennium.
Author | : Peter Brown |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781584651468 |
Download Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A preeminent classical scholar on the emergence of one of our most familiar social divisions.
Author | : Peter Robert Lamont Brown |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2007-08-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1556351747 |
Download Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Peter Brown, author of the celebrated 'Augustine of Hippo', has here gathered together his seminal articles and papers on the rapidly changing world of Saint Augustine. The collection is wide-ranging, dealing with political theory, social history, church history, historiography, theology, history of religions, and social anthropology. Saint Augustine is, of course, the central figure; and in an important introduction Peter Brown explains how the preoccupations of these essays led him to write the prize-winning biography. Brown then goes on to explore the heart of Augustine's political theory, not only showing how it factors in Augustine's thought, but also pointing to what is different from and similar to twentieth-century political thought.
Author | : Ramsay MacMullen |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300029840 |
Download Paganism in the Roman Empire Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"MacMullen...has published several books in recent years which establish him, rightfully, as a leading social historian of the Roman Empire. The current volume exhibits many of the characteristics of its predecessors: the presentation of novel, revisionist points of view...; discrete set pieces of trenchant argument which do not necessarily conform to the boundaries of traditional history; and an impressive, authoritative, and up-to-date documentation, especially rich in primary sources...A stimulating and provocative discourse on Roman paganism as a phenomenon worthy of synthetic investigation in its own right and as the fundamental context for the rise of Christianity.”--Richard Brilliant, History "MacMullen’s latest work represents many features of paganism in its social context more vividly and clearly than ever before.”--Fergus Millar, American Historical Review "The major cults...are examined from a social and cultural perspective and with the aid of many recently published specialized studies...Students of the Roman Empire...should read this book.”--Robert J, Penella, Classical World "A distinguished book with much exact observation...An indispensable mine of erudition on a grand theme.” Henry Chadwick, Times Literary Supplement Ramsay MacMullen is Dunham Professor of History and Classics at Yale University and the author of Roman Government’s Response to Crisis, A.D. 235-337 and Roman Social Relations, 50 B.C. to A.D. 284
Author | : Lieve Van Hoof |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004279474 |
Download Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Late Antiquity is often assumed to have witnessed the demise of literature as a social force and its retreat into the school and the private reading room: whereas the sophists of the Second Sophistic were influential social players, their late antique counterparts are thought to have been overshadowed by bishops. Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD argues that this presumed difference should be attributed less to a fundamental change in the role of literature than to different scholarly methodologies with which Greek and Latin texts from the second and the fourth century are being studied. Focusing on performance, the literary construction of reality and self-presentation, this volume highlights how literature continued to play an important role in fourth-century elite society.
Author | : Fergus Millar |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2006-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520253914 |
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"This masterful study will have its place on every ancient historian's bookshelf."—Claudia Rapp, author of Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition
Author | : Peter Brown |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1997-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521595575 |
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His illuminating analysis of religious change as the art of the possible has a wide relevance for other periods and regions.
Author | : Averil Cameron |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520915503 |
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Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil Cameron turns to the development of Christian discourse over the first to sixth centuries A.D., investigating the discourse's essential characteristics, its effects on existing forms of communication, and its eventual preeminence. Scholars of late antiquity and general readers interested in this crucial historical period will be intrigued by her exploration of these influential changes in modes of communication. The emphasis that Christians placed on language—writing, talking, and preaching—made possible the formation of a powerful and indeed a totalizing discourse, argues the author. Christian discourse was sufficiently flexible to be used as a public and political instrument, yet at the same time to be used to express private feelings and emotion. Embracing the two opposing poles of logic and mystery, it contributed powerfully to the gradual acceptance of Christianity and the faith's transformation from the enthusiasm of a small sect to an institutionalized world religion.
Author | : Peter Brown |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520280415 |
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This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine cast fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.