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Power & Persuasion Late Antiquity: Towards A Christian Empire

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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter BrownSeries:Curti LecturePublish date:1992-10-15Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299133443ISBN-10:299133443UPC:9780299133443Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:AncientBook Topic:RomeSize:9.06 x 6.01 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SC33D7VJ4G
Peter Brown, perhaps the greatest living authority on Mediterranean civilization in late antiquity, traces the growing power of Christian bishops as they wrested influence from philosophers, who had traditionally advised the rulers of Graeco-Roman society. In the new "Christian empire," the ancient bonds of citizen to citizen and of each city to its benefactors were replaced by a common Christianity and common loyalty to a distant, Christian autocrat. This transformation of the Roman empire from an ancient to a medieval society, he argues, is among the most far-reaching consequences of the rise of Christianity.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299133443ISBN-10:299133443UPC:9780299133443Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:AncientBook Topic:RomeSize:9.06 x 6.01 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SC33D7VJ4G
Peter Brown is the Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. He has also taught at Oxford University, the University of London, and the University of California. Among his many books are The Body and Society, The Cult of the Saints, Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity, and Augustine of Hippo.

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