Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire (Curti Lectures) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity 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 Christiani...
Full description- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Published: 31 October 1992
- Format: Paperback 184 pages
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- Categories: European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Religion: General | Early Church
- ISBN 13: 9780299133443 ISBN 10: 0299133443
- Sales rank: 308,219
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Full description for Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity
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.
