Oxford University Press, 2007. — 284 p. A refutation of the conventional view that after the adoption of Christianity by the Roman empire the local community lost its voice in the appointment of bishops. Peter Norton argues that this right remained for longer than is normally assumed, with important consequences for our understanding of the administration of the later empire.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 312 p. We do not have many definitions of Christianity from late antiquity, but among the few extant is the brief statement of Gregory of Nyssa (335-395 CE) that it is "mimesis of the divine nature." The sentence is both a historical gem and theologically puzzling. Gregory was the first Christian to make the infinity of God central to...
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1954. — 192 S. — (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 59). Die 'Historia tripartita' war als Fortsetzung der in Rufins Übersetzung benutzten Kirchengeschichte des Euseb bis ins späte Mittelalter im Westen das wichtigste historische Hilfsmittel für die Zeit von Konstantin bis Theodosius II., von Nicäa bis Ephesus. Schon...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 308 p. — (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 181). This volume examines the inter-religious conflicts of the 4th and 5th centuries starting with Contra Iulianum, the reply by Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria to the anti-Christian screed Contra Galilaeos written by Rome’s last pagan emperor Julian. One focus is to situate these...
Routledge, 2016. — 288 p. At various times over the past millennium bishops of Rome have claimed a universal primacy of jurisdiction over all Christians and a superiority over civil authority. Reactions to these claims have shaped the modern world profoundly. Did the Roman bishop make such claims in the millennium before that? The essays in this volume from international...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 443 p. This volume brings together contributions exploring a range of aspects of the Alexandrian patristic tradition from the second half of the second century to the first half of the fifth century, a tradition whose complex and significant legacy is at times misunderstood and, in some quarters, wholly neglected. With contributions by...
De Gruyter, 2006. — 336 p. — (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 153). The Testament of Solomon is presented here for the first time in a complete German translation based on McCown’s edition of the text, up to now regarded as the authoritative version and taking full account of the Greek textual variants. A detailed introduction and...
University of California Press, 2014. — 224 p. Mirage of the Saracen analyzes the growth of monasticism and Christian settlements in the Sinai Peninsula through the early seventh century C.E. Walter D. Ward examines how Christian monks justified occupying the Sinai by creating associations between Biblical narratives and Sinai sites while assigning uncivilized, negative, and...
University of California Press, 2015. — 392 p. Although it would appear in studies of late antique ecclesiastical authority and power that scholars have covered everything, an important aspect of the urban bishop has long been neglected: his role as demonologist and exorcist. When the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the realm, bishops, and priests...
Dissertation. — Center for European Studies and General Linguistics, Adelaide University, 2001. — V+ 316 p. + 17 plates with 55 illustrations. This study takes five gemstones, each engraved with an image of the Crucifixion and previously dated to the Late Antique period, as its focus. Traditionally it has been thought that Christian images of the Crucifixion emerged in the...
Routledge, 2010. — 360 p. The shape and course which Christian thought has taken over its history is largely due to the contributions of individuals and communities in the second and third centuries. Bringing together a remarkable team of distinguished scholars, The Routledge Companion to Early Christian Thought is the ideal companion for those seeking to understand how Early...
Hrsg. J. Bidez. — Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1913. The church historian Philostorgius, one of the successors of Eusebius of Caesarea, was a lawyer from Constantinople and a native of Cappadocia II. Imitating Pliny the Elder, he sought to supplement his work with the diverse knowledge that was necessary to describe the Universe from the firmament to the depths of...
University of California Press, 2014. — 224 p. Mirage of the Saracen analyzes the growth of monasticism and Christian settlements in the Sinai Peninsula through the early seventh century C.E. Walter D. Ward examines the ways in which Christian monks justified occupying the Sinai through creating associations between Biblical narratives and Sinai sites while assigning...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. — 320 p. — (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C.E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history both of the School and of the...
University of California Press, 1999. — 122 p. — (Transformation of the Classical Heritage). This study offers a comprehensive reconsideration of the life and literary works of Paulinus of Nola (ca. 352-431), a Roman senator who renounced his political career and secular lifestyle to become a monk, bishop, impresario of a saint's cult, and prominent Christian poet. Dennis Trout...
University of California Press, 2013. — 310 p. — (Transformation of the Classical Heritage). During the fourth century A.D., theological controversy divided Christian communities throughout the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Not only was the truth about God at stake, but also the authority of church leaders, whose legitimacy depended on their claims to represent that truth....
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 530 p. Cornelia Horn examines and reconstructs the anti-Chalcedonian movement in Palestine on the basis of one of its most important witnesses, the fifth-century Life of Peter the Iberian by John Rufus. She uses textual as well as archaeological data to reconstruct the history of Peter the Iberian and his significant role in the early...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 269 p. Possidius, the bishop of Calama, was a lifelong friend of St. Augustine best known for writing a biography of the bishop of Hippo, the Vita Augustini. Hermanowicz analyzes both the biography and the legally oriented career of Possidius to illustrate how active Augustine's colleagues were in soliciting imperial support against their...
De Gruyter, 2013. — 619 p. The Histories Against the Pagans of Orosius, written in 416/7, has been one of the most influential works in the history of Western historiography. Often read as a theology of history, it has been rarely been set against the background of ancient historiography and rhetorical practice in the time of Orosius. Arguing for the closeness of rhetoric and...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 256 p. In the age of the Theodosian dynasty and the establishment of Christianity as the only legitimate religion of the Roman Empire, few figures are more pivotal in the power politics of the Christian church than archbishop Theophilus of Alexandria (385-412). This work examines the involvement of archbishop Theophilus in the so-called First...
Brill Academic Pub, 2008. — 393 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World volume 163). Destruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of late antique change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception. Contemporaries were aware of these events' far-reaching symbolic significance and of their immediate impact as...
Walter De Gruyter, 2011. — 619 p. — (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 119). The present volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process that eventually resulted in one specific candidate becoming the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 447 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 115.2). This work discusses the decline of Greek religion and the christianization of town and countryside in the eastern Roman Empire between the death of Julian the Apostate and the laws of Justinian the Great against paganism, c. 370-529. It examines such questions as the effect of the laws...
Harvard University Press, 2013. - 316 p. - (Revealing Antiquity). When Rome was at its height, an emperor’s male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empire as a god. In this same society, the routine sexual exploitation of poor and enslaved women was abetted by public institutions. Four centuries later, a Roman emperor commanded the mutilation...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. - 354 p. - (Jewish and Christian Perspectives 3) Dealing with the subject of apologetics and polemics against the pagans in Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260-340), this volume discusses his response to the political, cultural and religious campaign launched against Christianity in his time.
Routledge, 2004. - 100 p. - (The Early Church Fathers) In the first book to be devoted exclusively to Severus, well-known author in the field, Pauline Allen, focuses on a fascinating figure who is seen simultaneously as both a saint and a heretic. Part of our popular Early Church Fathers series, this volume translates a key selection of Severus' writings which survived in many...
Routledge, 2006. - 233 p. - (The Early Church Fathers) If Theophilus of Alexandria seems a minor figure today, it is because we persist in seeing him through the eyes of hostile contemporary witnesses, each of whom had his own reasons for diminishing Theophilus’ stature. In fact, he was one of the greatest bishops of the Theodosian era, who played an important role in a crucial...
Leipzig: J- C. Hinrichs'sche buchhandlung, 1914, 442 s. Die vorliegende Ausgabe enthält den Text der Kirchengeschichte des Eusebius mitsamt dem Buch über die palaestinischen Martyrer so, wie er in meiner großen Ausgabe konstituiert ist, deren am Rand vermerkte Seiten- und Zeilenzahlen im Apparat beibehalten sind. Dieser gibt vollständig nur die Änderungsvorschläge, die von mir...