Epiphanius of Cyprus : a cultural biography of late antiquity /
"Epiphanius, Bishop of Contantia on Cyprus from 367-403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century, yet modern scholarship has very little use for him. His major surviving text (the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies) is plumbed for lost sources, but Epiphaniu...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press
[2016]
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| 丛编: | Christianity in late antiquity (North American Patristics Society) ;
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1c6v9h7 |
| 总结: | "Epiphanius, Bishop of Contantia on Cyprus from 367-403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century, yet modern scholarship has very little use for him. His major surviving text (the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies) is plumbed for lost sources, but Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual crank, a marginal figure of late antiquity. This book moves Epiphanius from the margin back toward the center, and proposes we view major cultural themes of late antiquity in a new light altogether. Through an examination of key cultural concepts--celebrity, conversion, discipline, scripture, salvation--this book shifts our understanding of 'late antiquity' from a transformational period open to new ideas and peoples toward a Christian Empire that posited a troubling, but ever-present, 'otherness' at the center of its cultural production. The book includes a consideration of the hagiographic 'afterlives' of Epiphanius, and concludes with a discussion of why modern scholarship finds the fourth-century bishop so troubling"--Provided by publisher |
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| 实物描述: | 1 online resource (xiv, 335 pages) |
| 参考书目: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520964983 0520964985 9780520291126 |