Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power: Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire - Brossura

Niccolai, Lea

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1009299271 ISBN 13: 9781009299275

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Riassunto

This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the rise and consolidation of a Christian politics of interpretation that relied on exegesis as a self-legitimising device to secure control over Roman history via claims to Christianity's control of paideia. This reconstruction infuses Julian's reaction with contextual significance. His literary and political project emerges as a response to contemporary reconfigurations of Christian hermeneutics as controlling the meaning of Rome's culture and history. At the same time, understanding Julian as a participant in a larger debate re-qualifies all fourth-century political and episcopal discourse as a long knock-on effect reacting to the imperial mobilisation of Christian debates over the link between power and culture.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• ISBN 10: 1009299271
• ISBN 13: 9781009299275
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 380
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile