Being Christian in Late Antiquity
A Festschrift for Gillian Clark
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 January 2014
- ISBN 9780199656035
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 241x162x25 mm
- Weight 632 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 black and white illustration 0
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What do we mean when we talk about 'being Christian' in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity and, Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in honour of the ground-breaking scholarship of Professor Gillian Clark.
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What do we mean when we talk about 'being Christian' in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity and, Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in honour of the ground-breaking scholarship of Professor Gillian Clark. After an introduction to the volume's dedicatee and themes by Averil Cameron, the papers in Section I, `Being Christian through Reading, Writing and Hearing', analyse the roles that literary genre, writing, reading, hearing and the literature of the past played in the formation of what it meant to be Christian. The essays in Section II move on to explore how late antique Christians sought to create, maintain and represent Christian communities: communities that were both 'textually created' and 'enacted in living realities'. Finally in Section III, 'The Particularities of Being Christian', the contributions examine what it was to be Christian from a number of different ways of representing oneself, each of which raises questions about certain kinds of 'particularities', for example, gender, location, education and culture.
Bringing together primary source material from the early Imperial period up to the seventh century AD and covering both the Eastern and Western Empires, the papers in this volume demonstrate that what it meant to be Christian cannot simply be taken for granted. 'Being Christian' was part of a continual process of construction and negotiation, as individuals and Christian communities alike sought to relate themselves to existing traditions, social structures and identities, at the same time as questioning and critiquing the past(s) in their present.
This is a wonderful collection of essays worthy of its honorand. Without doubt it is a valuable contribution to the study of late antiquity and of great interest to all those interested in early Christianity, late-antique literature and culture, gender or Augustine.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Discourses of Gillian Clark.
I: Being Christian through Reading, Writing and Hearing
Why Don't Jews Write Biography? Simon Goldhill
The Maccabaean Mother between Pagans, Jews and Christians.
On the Status of Books in Early Christianity.
An Inextinguishable Memory: Pagan Past and Presence in Early Christian Writing.
Playing Ball: Augustine and Plutarch on Capturing Wisdom.
II: Being Christian in Community
Fiunt, non nascuntur christiani: Conversion, Community and Christian Identity in Late Antiquity? Andrew Louth
Julian and the Christian Professors
The City of Augustine: On the Interpretation of Civitas
Christianity and Authority in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of the Concept of Auctoritas
Church Councils and Local Authority: The Development of Gallic Libri Canonum during Late Antiquity
III: The Particularities of Being Christian.
The Empresses' tale, AD 300-360
'Being Female': Verse commemoration at the Coemeterium S. Agnetis (Via Nomentana)
Self Portrait as a Landscape: Ausonius and his Herediolum
Fashions for Varro in Late Antiquity and Christian Ways with Books
The Image of a Christian Monk in Northern Syria: Symeon Stylites the Younger
