Christianity and the rhetoric of empire : the development of Christian discourse /

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 discou...

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Главный автор: Cameron, Averil
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1991.
Серии:Sather classical lectures ; v. 55.
Online-ссылка:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=13061
Оглавление:
  • How many rhetorics?
  • Showing and telling
  • Stories people want
  • The power over the past
  • The rhetoric of paradox
  • Toward a new representation
  • Envoi.