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Empire to Commonwealth : Consequences of monotheism in late antiquity

by: Fowden, G.

Price: 69,00 EURO

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Category: Mythology / Ancient Religion
Code: 8293
ISBN-13: 9780691069890 / 978-0-691-06989-0
ISBN-10: 0691069891 / 0-691-06989-1
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 1993
Publication Place: New Jersey
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 205
Book Condition: Very good
Comments: xvii, 205 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. / Introduction --1. The world's two eyes: Iran, Rome, and the pursuit of world empire. The geographical focus ; Iran, the Greeks, and polytheist Rome ; Sasanian universalism --2. Polytheist Rome: toward cultural

Empire to Commonwealth
Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
Garth Fowden

About this book
In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the looser, more pluralistic commonwealths of Eastern Christendom and Islam. With rare breadth of vision, Fowden traces this transition from empire to commonwealth, and in the process exposes the sources of major cultural contours that still play a determining role in Europe and southwest Asia.


Frontmatter

Contents

List of illustrations

Abbreviations

Note on transliteration and references

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The world's two eyes: Iran, Rome, and the pursuit of world empire

2. Polytheist Rome: Toward cultural universalism within empire

3. The Fertile Crescent: Cultural universalism between and beyond empires

4. Constantine: Christian empire and crusade

5. The First Byzantine Commonwealth: Interactions of political and cultural universalism

6. Islam: World empire, then commonwealth

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

 
 
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