Do the terms 'pagan' and 'Christian,' 'transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting 'pagans' and 'Christians' in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between 'pagans' and 'Christians' replaced the old 'conflict model' with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if 'paganism' had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, 'Christianity' came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, 'pagans' and 'Christians' lived 'in between' polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Lives
- Maël Goarzin: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRACTICAL LIFE FOR PAGAN AND
CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHERS
- Linda Honey: RELIGIOUS PROFILING IN THE MIRACLES OF THECLA
- Margarita Vallejo-Girvés: EMPRESS VERINA AMONG THE PAGANS
- Anna Judit Tóth: JOHN LYDUS—PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN
- Juana Torres: RHETORIC AND HISTORICAL DISTORTION:
THE CASE OF MARK OF ARETHUSA
- Identities
- Monika Pesthy-Simon: IMITATIO CHRISTI? LITERARY MODELS FOR MARTYRS IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY
- Levente Nagy: ASCETIC CHRISTIANITY IN PANNONIAN MARTYR STORIES?
- Jérôme Lagouanère: USES AND MEANINGS OF ‘PAGANUS’
IN THE WORKS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE
- Ecaterina Lung: RELIGIOUS IDENTITY AS SEEN BY SIXTH-CENTURY
HISTORIANS AND CHRONICLERS
- Cults
- Branka Migotti: THE CULT OF SOL INVICTUS AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN AQUAE IASAE
- Miriam Adan Jones: CONVERSION AS CONVERGENCE: GREGORY THE GREAT CONFRONTING PAGAN AND JEWISH INFLUENCES IN ANGLO-SAXON CHRISTIANITY
- Edward M. Schoolman: IMAGE AND FUNCTION IN ‘CHRISTIAN’ AND ‘PAGAN’ LATE ANTIQUE TERRACOTTA LAMPS
- Landscapes
- Hristo Preshlenov: BELIEVERS IN TRANSITION: PAGANISM TO CHRISTIANITY ALONG THE
SOUTHWESTERN BLACK SEA COAST (4th–6th CENTURIES)
- Joseph Grzywaczewski – Daniel K. Knox: GLORY, DECAY AND HOPE: GODDESS ROMA IN SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS’ PANEGYRICS
- Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete: TRACING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN “MAINSTREAM” PLATONISM AND “MARGINAL” PLATONISM WITH DIGITAL TOOLS
- Tombs
- Ivan Basić: PAGAN TOMB TO CHRISTIAN CHURCH: THE CASE OF DIOCLETIAN’S MAUSOLEUM IN SPALATUM
- Zsolt Visy: CHRISTIAN TOPOGRAPHY IN SOPIANAE’S LATE ANTIQUE CEMETERIES
- Olivér Gábor and Zsuzsa Katona Győr: SOPIANAE REVISITED: PAGAN OR CHRISTIAN BURIALS?
- Elizabeth O’Brien: IMPACT BEYOND THE EMPIRE: PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN BURIAL IN IRELAND
(1ST–8TH CENTURIES)
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES
- INDEX OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES
- back cover
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