From Temple to Church: Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in Late AntiquityJohannes Hahn, Stephen Emmel, Ulrich Gotter Destruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of late antique change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception. Contemporaries were aware of these eventsa (TM) far-reaching symbolic significance and of their immediate impact as demonstrations of political power and religious conviction. Joined in any a oetemple-destructiona are the meaning of the monument, actions taken, and subsequent literary discourse. Paradigms of perception, specific interests, and forms of expression of quite various protagonists clashed. Archaeologists, historians, and historians of religion illuminate a oetemple-destructiona from different perspectives, analysing local configurations within larger contexts, both regional and imperial, in order to find an appropriate larger perspective on this phenomenon within the late antique movement a oefrom temple to churcha . |
Contents
Analysing a Late Antique Phenomenon of Transformation Stephen Emmel Ulrich Gotter and Johannes Hahn | 1 |
Chapter Two Models and Evidence in the Study of Religion in Late Roman Egypt Roger S Bagnall | 23 |
Chapter Three RechtgläubigePaganeHäretiker Templezerstörungen in der Kirchengeschichtsschreibung und das Bild der christlichen Kaiser Ulrich G... | 43 |
Pagan Temples in the Monastic Topography of FourthCentury Egypt David Brakke | 91 |
Chapter Five The Christianization of Pagan Temples in the Greek Hagiographical Texts Helen Saradi | 113 |
Christian Treatments of Space and Image David Frankfurter | 135 |
Rhetoric and Reality Stephen Emmel | 161 |
Chapter Eight Die Zerstörung der kulte von Philae Geschichte und Legende am ersten Nilkatarakt Johannes Hahn | 203 |
Chapter Nine The Conversion of the Temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias in Context Angelos Chaniotis | 243 |
Chapter Ten Continuity and Change in the Cultic Topography of Late Antique Palestine Doron Bar | 275 |
Chapter Eleven Modalitäten der Zerstörung und Christianisierung pharaonischer Tempelanlagen Peter Grossmann | 299 |
The Destruction of the Serapeum 392 AD and Loving City Johannes Hahn | 335 |
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Abydos Ägypten Alexandria allem allerdings ancient andere anti-pagan Aphrodisias Atripe Bedeutung bereits Bischof bishop Buch CHANIOTIS Christen Christentum Christian Christianisierung christlichen church Constantius Constantius II Copt Coptic cultic demons destruction EBOX Egypt Egyptian Emmel emperor erst ersten Eunapius evidence fifth century fourth century FRANKFURTER 1998 Geschehen Geschichte Gesios Gesios's Grossmann hagiography Hahn Heidentum heidnischen hist holy Hrsg idols images imperial inscriptions Insel Isis Jahrhunderts Jews Julian Kaiser Kirche Kirchen Kirchengeschichte Konflikt Konstantin koptischen Kugener Kulte late antiquity Leiden LEIPOLDT Let Our Eyes literary Macarius Menouthis monastery monastic monks pagan pagan cult pagan temple paganen Palestine Palladas Panopolis Philae priests religion religiöse religiösen religious ritual Roman ROUECHÉ Rufin saints Serapeum Serapis Shenoute Shenoute's Siehe Socr Sokrates Sozomenos Spätantike statue Syene Tempelinsel Tempelzerstörungen Thdt Theodoret Theodoros Theodosius Theodosius II Theophilus tradition TROMBLEY Vita waren wurde wurden Zeit Zerstörung