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Transformations of late antiquity : essays for Peter Brown / [edited by] Philip Rousseau, Manolis Papoutsakis.

Contributor(s): Brown, Peter Robert Lamont | Rousseau, Philip | Papoutsakis, Emmanuel
Language: English Summary language: French, Italian Publisher: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.Description: xx, 345 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780754665533 (alk. paper); 0754665534 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Civilization, Classical -- Influence | Rome -- Civilization -- InfluenceDDC classification: 937/.09
Contents:
Between Marrou and Brown : transformations of late antique Christianity / Robert Markus -- Old and new Rome : Roman studies in sixth-century Constantinople / Averil Cameron -- Old and new Rome in the late antique Near East / Glen Bowersock -- Regulations for an association of artisans from the late Sasanian or early Arab period / Sebastian Brock -- Crosses, icons and the image of Christ in Edessa : the place of iconophobia in the Christian-Muslim controversies of early Islamic times / Sidney H. Griffith -- Alle origini della tradizione pagana su Costantino e il senato romano / Rita Lizzi Testa -- Four funerals and a wedding : this world and the next in fourth-century Rome / John Matthews -- Les réticences de saint Augustin face aux légendes hagiographiques d'après la lettre Divjak 29* / Claude Lepelley -- Language, morality and cult : Augustine and Varro / Philip Rousseau -- A world full of stories / Charlotte Roueché -- Safe-conducts to heaven : holy men, mediation and the role of writing / Claudia Rapp -- Book burning as purification / Judith Herrin -- Gregorio Magno e i 'Libri dei Re' / Lellia Cracco Ruggini e Giorgio Cracco -- The late antique origins of the lunatic asylum? / Peregrine Horden -- Family men : masculinity and philosophy in late antiquity / Susanna Elm -- Radegundis peccatrix : authorizations of virginity in late antique Gaul / Julia M.H. Smith -- Gemistus Plethon and Platonic political philosophy / Peter Garnsey.
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Festschrift.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Between Marrou and Brown : transformations of late antique Christianity / Robert Markus -- Old and new Rome : Roman studies in sixth-century Constantinople / Averil Cameron -- Old and new Rome in the late antique Near East / Glen Bowersock -- Regulations for an association of artisans from the late Sasanian or early Arab period / Sebastian Brock -- Crosses, icons and the image of Christ in Edessa : the place of iconophobia in the Christian-Muslim controversies of early Islamic times / Sidney H. Griffith -- Alle origini della tradizione pagana su Costantino e il senato romano / Rita Lizzi Testa -- Four funerals and a wedding : this world and the next in fourth-century Rome / John Matthews -- Les réticences de saint Augustin face aux légendes hagiographiques d'après la lettre Divjak 29* / Claude Lepelley -- Language, morality and cult : Augustine and Varro / Philip Rousseau -- A world full of stories / Charlotte Roueché -- Safe-conducts to heaven : holy men, mediation and the role of writing / Claudia Rapp -- Book burning as purification / Judith Herrin -- Gregorio Magno e i 'Libri dei Re' / Lellia Cracco Ruggini e Giorgio Cracco -- The late antique origins of the lunatic asylum? / Peregrine Horden -- Family men : masculinity and philosophy in late antiquity / Susanna Elm -- Radegundis peccatrix : authorizations of virginity in late antique Gaul / Julia M.H. Smith -- Gemistus Plethon and Platonic political philosophy / Peter Garnsey.

Two chapters in French; one chapter in Italian.

NAESJANFEB, AES2010