Jan Willem (Hrsg.) Drijvers

Portraits of Spiritual Authority: Religious Power in Early Christianity, Byzantium and the Christian Orient

Buch

This volume deals with several figures of spiritual authority in Christianity during late antiquity and the early middle ages, and seeks to illuminate the way in which the struggle for religious influence evolved with changes in church and society.A number of literary portraits are examined, portraits which, in various literary genres, are themselves designed to establish and propagate the authority of the people whose lives and activities they describe.The sequence begins with visionary and prophetic figures of the second and third centuries, proceeds through several testimonies from the fourth century to the power of holy persons, moves on… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Watt, John (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-90-04-11459-3
EAN: 9789004114593
Produktnummer: 1825099
Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Seitenangabe: 230 S.
Masse: H24.9 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.2 cm 590 g
Reihenbandnummer: 137
Gewicht: 590

Über den Autor

Jan Willem Drijvers, Ph.D. (1989), University of Groningen, is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Groningen. He has published on various topics concerning Late Antiquity, including Helena Augusta, The Mother of Constantine the Great and the Legend of Her Finding of the True Cross (Leiden, 1992). He is co-author of Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXII, XXIII (Groningen, 1995, 1998). John W. Watt, Ph.D. (1974), University of St. Andrews, is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, Cardiff University. His publications include Philoxenus of Mabbug, Fragments of the Commentary on Matthew and Luke (Louvain, 1978) and The Fifth Book of the Rhetoric of Antony of Tagrit (Louvain, 1986).