Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire

Marianne Sághy, Edward M. Schoolman (eds)

Title: Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire
Subtitle: New Evidence, New Approaches (4th–8th centuries)
Editors: Marianne Sághy; Edward M. Schoolman
Price: € 70,95 excl. VAT
ISBN: 9789633862551
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 382
Language: English
Publication date: 10 - 10 - 2017
Dimensions: 15.5 x 22.9 cm
Series: CEU Medievalia
Categories
Discipline: Social and Political Sciences
Imprint: CEU Press
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Introduction
Marianne Sághy and Edward M. Schoolman

PART I. Lives
The Importance of the Practical Life for Pagan and Christian Philosophers
Maël Goarzin
Religious Profiling in the Miracles of Saint Thecla
Linda Honey
Empress Verina among the Pagans
Margarita Vallejo-Girvés
Pagan and Christian
John Lydus, Pagan and Christian
Anna Judit Tóth
Marcus of Arethusa, Heretic and Martyr
Juana Torres

PART II. Identities
Imitatio Christi? Classical and Scriptural Literary Models of Martyrdom in Early Christianity
Monika Pesthy Simon
Ascetic Christianity in Pannonian Martyr Stories?
Levente Nagy
Uses and Meanings of 'Paganus' in the works of Saint Augustine
Jérôme Lagouanère
Religious Identity as seen by Historians and Chroniclers in the Sixth Century
Ecaterina Lung

PART III. Cults
The cult of Sol Invictus and early Christianity in Aquae Iasae
Branka Migotti
Conversion as Convergence: Gregory the Great confronting Pagan and Jewish Influences in Anglo-Saxon Christianity
Miriam Adan Jones
Religious Images and Contexts: "Christian" and "Pagan" Terracotta Lamps
Edward M. Schoolman

PART IV. Landscapes
Believers in Transition: from Paganism to Christianity along the Southwestern Black Sea Coast (4th_6th centuries)
Hristo Preshlenov
Glory, Decay and Hope: Goddess Roma in Sidonius Apollinaris' Panegyrics
Jozef Grzywaczewski and Daniel K. Knox
Soares Santoprete, Tracing the Connections between "Mainstream" Platonism and "Marginal" Platonism with Digital Tools
Luciana Gabriela

PART V. Tombs
Pagan Tomb to Christian Church: The Case of Diocletian's Mausoleum in Spalatum
Ivan Basić,
Christian Topography in Sopianae's Late Antique Cemeteries
Zsolt Visy,
Sopianae Revisited: Pagan or Christian Burials?
Olivér Gábor and Zsuzsa Katona Győr
Impact beyond the Empire: Burial practices in Ireland (4th – 8th centuries)
Elizabeth O'Brien

List of contributors
Index of Personal Names
Index of Geographical Names

Marianne Sághy, Edward M. Schoolman (eds)

Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire

New Evidence, New Approaches (4th–8th centuries)

Do the terms 'pagan' and 'Christian,' 'transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting 'pagans' and 'Christians' in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between 'pagans' and 'Christians' replaced the old 'conflict model' with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if 'paganism' had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, 'Christianity' came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, 'pagans' and 'Christians' lived 'in between' polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies.

Editors

Marianne Sághy

Marianne Sághy was Associate Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, and at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern Universal History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.