Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity

Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity
Title Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity PDF eBook
Author Dirk Rohmann
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 370
Release 2016-07-25
Genre Religion
ISBN 3110486075

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It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little sustained consideration by academics. In an approach that presents evidence for the role played by Christian institutions, writers and saints, this book analyses a broad range of literary and legal sources, some of which have hitherto been little studied. Paying special attention to the problem of which genres and book types were likely to be targeted, the author argues that in addition to heretical, magical, astrological and anti-Christian books, other less obviously subversive categories of literature were also vulnerable to destruction, censorship or suppression through prohibition of the copying of manuscripts. These include texts from materialistic philosophical traditions, texts which were to become the basis for modern philosophy and science. This book examines how Christian authorities, theologians and ideologues suppressed ancient texts and associated ideas at a time of fundamental transformation in the late classical world.

Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction

Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction
Title Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook
Author Gillian Clark
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 153
Release 2011-02-24
Genre History
ISBN 0199546207

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Sheds light on the concept of late antiquity and the events of its time, showing that this was in fact a period of great transformation

The Exegetical Encounter Between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity

The Exegetical Encounter Between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity
Title The Exegetical Encounter Between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity PDF eBook
Author Emmanouela Grypeou
Publisher BRILL
Pages 305
Release 2009
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004177272

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The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity is a collection of essays examining the relationship between Jewish and Christian biblical commentators. The contributions focus on analysis of interpretations of the book of Genesis, a text which has considerable importance in both Christian and Jewish tradition. The essays cover a wide range of Jewish and Christian literature, including primarily rabbinic and patristic sources, but also apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, Philo, Josephus and Gnostic texts. In bringing together the studies of a variety of eminent scholars on the topic of Exegetical Encounter , the book presents the latest research on the topic and illuminates a variety of original approaches to analysis of exegetical contacts between the two sets of religious groups. The volume is significant for the light it sheds on the history of relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.

Readings in Late Antiquity

Readings in Late Antiquity
Title Readings in Late Antiquity PDF eBook
Author Michael Maas
Publisher Routledge
Pages 530
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 0415473365

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This volume seeks to make accessible to students a multiplicity of texts which illuminate the history, culture, medicine, philosophy, religion and peoples of late antiquity.

The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity

The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity
Title The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity PDF eBook
Author Hugh Elton
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 401
Release 2018-11-22
Genre History
ISBN 1108686273

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In this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis of the third century, he covers the rise of Christianity, the key Church Councils, the fall of the West to the Barbarians, the Justinianic reconquest, and concludes with the twin wars against Persians and Arabs in the seventh century AD. Elton isolates two major themes that emerge in this period. He notes that a new form of decision-making was created, whereby committees debated civil, military, and religious matters before the emperor, who was the final arbiter. Elton also highlights the evolution of the relationship between aristocrats and the Empire, and provides new insights into the mechanics of administering the Empire, as well as frontier and military policies. Supported by primary documents and anecdotes, The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity is designed for use in undergraduate courses on late antiquity and early medieval history.

Daily Life in Late Antiquity

Daily Life in Late Antiquity
Title Daily Life in Late Antiquity PDF eBook
Author Kristina Sessa
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 261
Release 2018-08-09
Genre History
ISBN 0521766109

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This book introduces readers to lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from c.250-600 CE.

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity
Title The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity PDF eBook
Author Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 1294
Release 2015-11
Genre History
ISBN 019027753X

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The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These events are set in the context of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious change during the period. The geographical scope of this Handbook is unparalleled among comparable surveys of Late Antiquity; Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope extends to the western kingdoms, and North Africa in the West. Furthermore, from economic theory and slavery to Greek and Latin poetry, Syriac and Coptic literature, sites of religious devotion, and many others, this Handbook covers a wide range of topics that will appeal to scholars from a diverse array of disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity engages the perennially valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.