Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 CE)

Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 CE)
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9789004254824
ISBN-13 : 900425482X
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 CE) by : Pauline Allen

Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil investigate crisis management as conducted by the increasingly important episcopal class in the 5th and 6th centuries. Their basic source is the neglected corpus of bishops’ letters in Greek and Latin, the letter being the most significant mode of communication and information-transfer in the period from 410 to 590 CE. The volume brings together into a wider setting a wealth of previous international research on episcopal strategies for dealing with crises of various kinds. Six broad categories of crisis are identified and analysed: population displacement, natural disasters, religious disputes and religious violence, social abuses and the breakdown of the structures of dependence. Individual case-studies of episcopal management are provided for each of these categories. This is the first comprehensive treatment of crisis management in the late-antique world, and the first survey of episcopal letter-writing across the later Roman empire.

Social Control in Late Antiquity

Social Control in Late Antiquity
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 395
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ISBN-10 : 9781108479394
ISBN-13 : 1108479391
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Social Control in Late Antiquity by : Kate Cooper

Explores how in late antiquity women, slaves, and children claimed agency in small-scale communities despite intimidation by the powerful.

Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts as Crisis Management Literature

Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts as Crisis Management Literature
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9780567281029
ISBN-13 : 0567281027
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts as Crisis Management Literature by : David C. Sim

This volume demonstrates how many religious texts are tailored to the specific requirements of an Ancient audience, and may focus on specific events or crises.

Managing Financial Resources in Late Antiquity

Managing Financial Resources in Late Antiquity
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9781137564092
ISBN-13 : 1137564091
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Managing Financial Resources in Late Antiquity by : Gerasimos Merianos

This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century. The study shows how the approaches of Greek Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, John Chrysostom, Isidore of Pelusium, and Theodoret of Cyrrhus, to hoarding and saving intertwined with stances toward the moral and social obligations of the wealthy. It also demonstrates how these Fathers responded to conditions and practices in urban economic environments characterized by sharp inequalities. Their attitudes reflect the gradual widening of Christian congregations, but also the consequences of the socio-economic evolution of the late antique Eastern Roman Empire. Among the issues discussed in the book are the justification of wealth, alternatives to hoarding, and the reception of patristic views by contemporaries.

Collecting Early Christian Letters from the Apostle Paul to Late Antiquity

Collecting Early Christian Letters from the Apostle Paul to Late Antiquity
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9781107091863
ISBN-13 : 1107091861
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Collecting Early Christian Letters from the Apostle Paul to Late Antiquity by : Bronwen Neil

The first multi-authored study of New Testament and late antique letter collections, crossing the traditional divide between these disciplines.

Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America

Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9781531505059
ISBN-13 : 1531505058
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America by : A. G. Roeber

A distinctive and unrivaled examination of North American Eastern Orthodox Christians and their encounter with the rights revolution in a pluralistic American society. From the civil rights movement of the 1950s to the “culture wars” of North America, commentators have identified the partisans bent on pursuing different “rights” claims. When religious identity surfaces as a key determinant in how the pursuit of rights occurs, both “the religious right” and “liberal” believers remain the focus of how each contributes to making rights demands. How Orthodox Christians in North America have navigated the “rights revolution,” however, remains largely unknown. From the disagreements over the rights of the First Peoples of Alaska to arguments about the rights of transgender persons, Orthodox Christians have engaged an anglo-American legal and constitutional rights tradition. But they see rights claims through the lens of an inherited focus on the dignity of the human person. In a pluralistic society and culture, Orthodox Christians, both converts and those with family roots in Orthodox countries, share with non-Orthodox fellow citizens the challenge of reconciling conflicting rights claims. Those claims do pit “religious liberty” rights claims against perceived dangers from outside the Orthodox Church. But internal disagreements about the rights of clergy and people within the Church accompany the Orthodox Christian engagement with debates over gender, sex, and marriage as well as expanding political, legal, and human rights claims. Despite their small numbers, North American Orthodox remain highly visible and their struggles influential among the more than 280 million Orthodox worldwide. Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America offers an historical analysis of this unfolding story.

Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350-450

Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350-450
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780190067250
ISBN-13 : 019006725X
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350-450 by : Maijastina Kahlos

Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity reconsiders the Christianization of the late Roman Empire. The focus is on the shifting position of dissenting religious groups ('pagans' and 'heretics'). The book shows that the narrative is more nuanced than the simple Christian triumph over the classical world.

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9780192865175
ISBN-13 : 019286517X
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch by : Lucy Parker

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History is a study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in times of crisis. Lucy Parker investigates the tensions that emerged when increasingly ambitious claims about the powers of holy men came into conflict with undeniable evidence of their failures, and explores how holy men and their supporters responded to this. The work takes as its central figure Symeon Stylites the Younger (c.521-592), who, from his vantage point on a column on a mountain close to Antioch, witnessed a period of exceptional turbulence in the local area, which, in the sixth century, experienced plague, earthquakes, and Persian invasion. Through an examination of Symeon's own writings, as well as his hagiographic biography, it reveals that the stylite was a divisive figure who played upon social tensions and upon culturally sensitive areas such as paganism to carve out a role for himself as prophet and spiritual authority in the face of considerable opposition. It sets Symeon's life and cult in the context of Antioch and eastern Roman society, offering a new perspective on the state of the empire in the period before the rise of Islam. It argues that hagiography is an exceptionally rich source for the historian, offering insights into debates and tensions which reached to the heart of Christianity.

Late Antique Letter Collections

Late Antique Letter Collections
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Publisher : University of California Press
Total Pages : 486
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ISBN-10 : 9780520308411
ISBN-13 : 0520308417
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Late Antique Letter Collections by : Cristiana Sogno

Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.

Christians Shaping Identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium

Christians Shaping Identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 536
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ISBN-10 : 9789004301573
ISBN-13 : 9004301577
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Christians Shaping Identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium by : Geoffrey Dunn

The essays collected in Christians Shaping Identity celebrate Pauline Allen’s significant contribution to early Christian, late antique, and Byzantine studies, especially concerning bishops, heresy/orthodoxy and christology. Covering the period from earliest Christianity to middle Byzantium, the first eighteen essays explore the varied ways in which Christians constructed their own identity and that of the society around them. A final four essays explore the same theme within Roman Catholicism and oriental Christianity in the late 19th to 21st centuries, with particular attention to the subtle relationships between the shaping of the early Christian past and the moulding of Christian identity today. Among the many leading scholars represented are Averil Cameron and Elizabeth A. Clark.