Roman defeat, Christian response, and the literary construction of the Jew /
Olster explores Byzantine Christian reactions to the catastrophic Persian and Arab invasions, challenging long-held assumptions that divided "religious" from "secular" literature and exempted religion from contemporary social, political, and intellectual discourse
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©1994.
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| Serie: | Middle Ages series.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt17mvh2v |
Sommario:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Politics and Theology: The Anachronism of Modern Scholarship
- 2. Christianity: The Imperial Religion
- 3. Crisis and Response: The "New" Rhetoric of George of Pisidia
- 4. A Tale of Two Cities
- 5. Christians Without an Empire: The Patriarch Sophronius
- 6. "We Are Still Better Than You": The Syrian Dialogues
- 7. Gregentius and Herbanus: The New Christian Patria
- 8. A Jewish-Christian Dialogue: The Exception to the Rule
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index