The Power of Religion in Late AntiquityAndrew Cain, Noel Emmanuel Lenski Late Antiquity witnessed a dramatic recalibration in the economy of power, and nowhere was this more pronounced than in the realm of religion. The transformations that occurred in this pivotal era moved the ancient world into the Middle Ages and forever changed the way that religion was practiced. The twenty eight studies in this volume explore this shift using evidence ranging from Latin poetic texts, to Syriac letter collections, to the iconography of Roman churches and Merowingian mortuary goods.The kaleidoscope of perspectives they provide creates a richly illuminating volume that add a new social and political dimension to current debates about religion in Late Antiquity. |
Contents
PARTI Religion and the Power of the Word | 6 |
Emperors and the Deployment of Religious Power | 8 |
The Center of Power | 13 |
Fulgentius on Arms and the Man | 21 |
Apocalypse? No The Power of Millennialism and | 31 |
Power Religion and Philosophy | 45 |
The Bible and Boethius Christianity | 57 |
Porphyry Iamblichus and | 79 |
Solar Power in Late Antiquity | 215 |
Celestial Cross Appearances in | 237 |
Public Sacral Law in Late Antique Rome | 251 |
Imagining the Capitolium in Late Antiquity | 279 |
Gregory I and | 293 |
How an Arian Barbarian Prospered in | 307 |
Ricimer on reverse | 323 |
Gregory of Tours and Arianism | 327 |
Iamblichus on the Theurgic Evocation | 93 |
Reading Religion in Porphyry of Tyre | 103 |
Christian and Imperial Attitudes | 119 |
Imperial Politics at the Court of Theodosius II | 133 |
Justinian and | 155 |
Religion and Power in the Early Thought of John Chrysostom | 181 |
The Power of Penance in | 201 |
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