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Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire

By Peter Brown

Book information

Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0299133400, 0299133443
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13724890 bytes)
Pages
200\200
Time added
2023-03-16 21:12:13
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Description

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.

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