Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

by: Brown, P.

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 Society and the holy in late antiquity

Author: Peter Brown

In this collection of essays, Peter Brown examines a phenomenon characteristic of the first millenium of Christianity, the belief in the tangible presence of the holy. Austere holy men dispensed rough justice in the countrysides of the early Christian Near East. Pilgrims flocked to the relic shrines housed in the great basilicas of Gaul. As far apart as Ireland, Constantinople, and Novgorod, artists strained to render visible those points where the believer stood in the direct presence of the holy. With the mixture of art and learning that is the hallmark of his work, Peter Brown examines the persons, sites, and artifacts at which the holy impinged on the day-to-day life of Late Antique society.

vii, 347 pages ; 24 cm

About the Book
With the blend of art and learning that is the hallmark of his work, Peter Brown here examines how the sacred impinged upon the profane during the first Christian millennium.

Author
Peter Brown is Professor of History at Princeton University and author of, among other works, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography and The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity; he is General Editor of the series, The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, published by the University of California Press.

Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Church history Primitive and early church
Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Essais
Essays
Église Histoire ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
History
Kirchengeschichte
Kirchengeschichte 100-600
Kirchengeschichte 300-1500
Religion
Rome (Empire)
Rome Histoire 284-476 (Bas-Empire)
Rome History Empire, 284-476
Rome Religion
Römisches Reich
Spätantike
essays

Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

by: Brown, P.

• ISBN-13: 9780520068001 / 978-0-520-06800-1
• ISBN-03: 0520068009 / 0-520-06800-9
• University of California Press, Berkeley, 1989

Price: 33,00 EURO

1 copy in stock