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Author(s): Harrison, Carol; Humfress, Caroline; Sandwell, Isabella (eds.)
ISBN(s): 9780199656035, 0199656037
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Year: 2014
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Author: Carol Harrison; Caroline Humfress; Isabella Sandwell

What do we mean when we talk about ‘being Christian’ in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity and, Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in honour of the ground-breaking scholarship of Professor Gillian Clark. After an introduction to the volume’s dedicatee and themes by Averil Cameron, the papers in Section I, `Being Christian through Reading, Writing and Hearing’, analyse the roles that literary genre, writing, reading, hearing and the literature of the past played in the formation of what it meant to be Christian. The essays in Section II move on to explore how late antique Christians sought to create, maintain and represent Christian communities: communities that were both ‘textually created’ and ‘enacted in living realities’. Finally in Section III, ‘The Particularities of Being Christian’, the contributions examine what it was to be Christian from a number of different ways of representing oneself, each of which raises questions about certain kinds of ‘particularities’, for example, gender, location, education and culture. Bringing together primary source material from the early Imperial period up to the seventh century AD and covering both the Eastern and Western Empires, the papers in this volume demonstrate that what it meant to be Christian cannot simply be taken for granted. ‘Being Christian’ was part of a continual process of construction and negotiation, as individuals and Christian communities alike sought to relate themselves to existing traditions, social structures and identities, at the same time as questioning and critiquing the past(s) in their present.

Table of contents:

Part I: Being Christian through Reading, Writing, and Hearing
Chapter 1: Why Don’t Jews Write Biography?
Chapter 2: The Maccabean Mother between Pagans, Jews, and Christians
Chapter 3: On the Status of Books in Early Christianity
Chapter 4: An Inextinguishable Memory: ‘Pagan’ Past and Presence in Early Christian Writing
Chapter 5: Playing Ball: Augustine and Plutarch on Capturing Wisdom

Part II: Being Christian in Community
Chapter 6: Fiunt, non nascuntur Christiani: Conversion, Community, and Christian Identity in Late Antiquity
Chapter 7: Julian and the Christian Professors
Chapter 8: The City of Augustine: On the Interpretation of Civitas
Chapter 9: Christianity and Authority in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of the Concept of Auctoritas
Chapter 10: Church Councils and Local Authority: The Development of Gallic Libri canonum during Late Antiquity

Part III: The Particularities of Being Christian
Chapter 11: The Empresses’ Tale, AD 300–360
Chapter 12: ‘Being Female’: Verse Commemoration at the Coemeterium S. Agnetis (Via Nomentana)
Chapter 13: Self-Portrait as a Landscape: Ausonius and His Herediolum
Chapter 14: Fashions for Varro in Late Antiquity and Christian Ways with Books
Chapter 15: The Image of a Christian Monk in Northern Syria: Symeon Stylites the Younger

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