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Being Christian in late antiquity: a festschrift for Gillian Clark

Being Christian in late antiquity: a festschrift for Gillian Clark
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ISBN 0199656037 (hbk.)
9780199656035 (hbk.)
Title Being Christian in late antiquity : a festschrift for Gillian Clark / edited by Carol Harrison, Caroline Humfress, Isabella Sandwell
Publisher Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014
Physical desc. xii, 202 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: the discourses of Gillian Clark / Averil Cameron -- Pt. 1: Being Christian through reading, writing, and hearing. Why don't Jews write biography? / Simon Goldhill -- The Maccabean mother between pagans, Jews, and Christians / Tessa Rajak -- On the status of books in early Christianity / Guy G. Stroumsa -- An inextinguishable memory: 'pagan' past and presence in early Christian writing / Josef Lössl -- Playing ball: Augustine and Plutarch on capturing wisdom / Carol Harrison -- Pt. 2: Being Christian in community. Fiunt, non nascuntur Christiani: conversion, community, and Christian identity in late antiquity / Andrew Louth -- Julian and the Christian professors / Neil McLynn -- The city of Augustine: on the interpretation of Civitas / Catherine Conybeare -- Christianity and authority in late antiquity: the transformation of the concept of Auctoritas / Karla Pollmann -- Church councils and local authority: the development of Gallic Libri canonum during late antiquity / Ralph W. Mathisen -- Part 3: The particularities of being Christian. The empresses' tale, A.D. 300-360 / Jill Harries -- 'Being female': verse commemoration at the Coemeterium S. Agnetis (Via nomentana) / Dennis Trout -- Self-portrait as a landscape: Ausonius and his Herediolum / Oliver Nicholson -- Fashions for Varro in late antiquity and Christian ways with books / Mark Vesey -- The image of a Christian monk in northern Syria: Symeon Stylites the Younger / Fergus Millar.
Subject Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Christianity -- History
Added name(s) Harrison, Carol ed.
Humfress, Caroline ed.
Sandwell, Isabella ed.
Clark, Gillian (E. Gillian) ed.
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