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A Chronicle of the Last Pagans
Author | : Pierre Chuvin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015017985204 |
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A Chronicle of the Last Pagans is a history of the triumph of Christianity in the Roman Empire as told from the perspective of the defeated: the adherents of the mysteries, cults, and philosophies that dominated Greco-Roman culture. With a sovereign command of the diverse evidence, Pierre Chuvin portrays the complex spiritual, intellectual, and political lives of professing pagans after Christianity became the state religion. While recreating the unfolding drama of their fate--their gradual loss of power, exclusion from political, military, and civic positions, their assimilation, and finally their persecution--he records a remarkable persistence of pagan religiosity and illustrates the fruitful interaction between Christianity and paganism. The author points to the implications of this late paganism for subsequent developments in the Byzantine Empire and the West. Chuvin's compelling account of an often forgotten world of pagan culture rescues an important aspect of our spiritual heritage and provides new understanding of Late Antiquity.
The Last Pagans of Rome
Author | : Alan Cameron |
Publsiher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 891 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199747276 |
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In a detailed analysis of the visual and textual evidence, this book disputes the widely held view that the late fourth century saw a vigorous and determined "pagan reaction" to the take-over of the Roman world by Christianity, at both the political and cultural level.
Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice
Author | : Richard Valantasis |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2000-06-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691057516 |
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This book is a collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts that constitute a comprehensive view of religious practice in Late Antiquity. This sourcebook includes discussions of asceticism, religious organization, ritual, martyrdom ...
The Last Pagan Emperor
Author | : H. C. Teitler |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190626525 |
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Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and during his short reign tried to revive paganism, which, after the conversion to Christianity of his uncle Constantine the Great early in the fourth century, began losing ground at an accelerating pace. Having become an orphan when he was still very young, Julian was taken care of by his cousin Constantius II, one of Constantine's sons, who permitted him to study rhetoric and philosophy and even made him co-emperor in 355. But the relations between Julian and Constantius were strained from the beginning, and it was only Constantius' sudden death in 361 which prevented an impending civil war. As sole emperor, Julian restored the worship of the traditional gods. He opened pagan temples again, reintroduced animal sacrifices, and propagated paganism through both the spoken and the written word. In his treatise Against the Galilaeans he sharply criticised the religion of the followers of Jesus whom he disparagingly called 'Galilaeans'. He put his words into action, and issued laws which were displeasing to Christians--the most notorious being his School Edict. This provoked the anger of the Christians, who reacted fiercely, and accused Julian of being a persecutor like his predecessors Nero, Decius, and Diocletian. Violent conflicts between pagans and Christians made themselves felt all over the empire. It is disputed whether or not Julian himself was behind such outbursts. Accusations against the Apostate continued to be uttered even after the emperor's early death. In this book, the feasibility of such charges is examined.
Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity
Author | : Peter Brown |
Publsiher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299133443 |
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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
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity
Author | : Averil Cameron,Fellow of the British Academy Warden Keble College Averil Cameron |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134980819 |
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This book provides both a detailed introduction to the vivid and exciting period of `late antiquity' and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Empire.
Persecution and Genocide
Author | : Gervase Phillips |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2024-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781040101926 |
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This volume offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both persecution and genocide across two thousand years of history from Rome to Nazi Germany, and spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Topics covered include the persecution of religious minorities in the ancient world and late antiquity, the medieval roots of modern antisemitism, the early modern witch-hunts, the emergence of racial ideologies and their relationship to slavery, colonialism, Russian and Soviet mass deportations, the Armenian genocide, and the Holocaust. It also introduces students to significant, but less well known, episodes, such as the Albigensian Crusade and the massacres and forced expulsions suffered by the Circassians at the hands of imperial Russia in the 1860s, as the world entered an 'age of genocide'. By exploring the ideological motivations of the perpetrators, the book invites students to engage with the moral complexities of the past and to reflect upon our own situation today as the 'legatees of two thousand years of persecution'. Gervase Phillips's book is the ideal introduction to the subject for anyone interested in the long and complex history of human persecution.
Pagan s Crusade
Author | : Catherine Jinks |
Publsiher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 076362019X |
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In twelth-century Jerusalem, orphaned sixteen-year-old Pagan is assigned to work for Lord Roland, a Templar knight, as Saladin's armies close in on the Holy City.