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From Temple to Church: Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in
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From Temple to Church: Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in Late Antiquity Tapa dura - 2008

de Stephen Emmel; Johannes Hahn (Editor); Ulrich Gotter (Editor)

Información de la editorial

Includes index. English and German.

Descripción de contraportada

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 .

Detalles

  • Título From Temple to Church: Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in Late Antiquity
  • Autor Stephen Emmel; Johannes Hahn (Editor); Ulrich Gotter (Editor)
  • Encuadernación Tapa dura
  • Páginas 392
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma GER
  • Editorial Brill
  • Fecha de publicación 2008-10
  • Ilustrado Sí
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Multi-Lingual, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9789004131415 / 9004131418
  • Peso 1.65 libras (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensiones 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.3 pulgadas (24.13 x 16.26 x 3.30 cm)
  • Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2008009740
  • Dewey Decimal Code 261.22

Reseñas en medios

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Acerca del autor

Johannes Hahn, Ph.D. (1986) and Habilitation (1993), Heidelberg University, is Professor of Ancient History at the Westflische Wilhelms-Universitt Mnster. He has published primarily on Roman imperial history and late antiquity, including Gewalt und religiser Konflikt. Studien zu den Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Christen, Heiden und Juden im Osten des Rmischen Reiches (Akademie Verlag, 2004).
Stephen Emmel, Ph.D. (1993) in Religious Studies, Yale University, is Professor of Coptology at the Westflische Wilhelms-Universitt Mnster. He has published extensively on Coptic philology and Coptic literature, including Shenoute's Literary Corpus (Peeters, 2004).
Ulrich Gotter, Ph.D. (1992) and Habilitation (2002), Freiburg University, is Professor of Ancient History at the Universitt Konstanz. He has published on Roman republican history, Roman historiography, and processes of acculturation and of Christianization and is currently working on monarchy in the ancient world.

The contributors to this volume are: Roger S. Bagnall, Doron Bar, David Brakke, Angelos Chaniotis, Stephen Emmel, David Frankfurter, Ulrich Gotter, Peter Grossmann, Johannes Hahn, and Helen Saradi.

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