Power and Persuasion Late Antiquity Towards a Christian Empire

Name: Power and Persuasion Late Antiquity Towards a Christian Empire
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ISBN: 9780299133443

ISBN-10: 0299133443

ISBN-13: 9780299133443

Edition: 1992

Authors: Peter Brown

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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.

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 10/15/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594



Preface



Devotio: Autocracy and Elites



Paideia and Power



Poverty and Power



Towards a Christian Empire


Index