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Informationen zum Autor Neil McLynn is Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Law! Keio University! Japan. He was trained in the classics at Oxford. Klappentext "This is an important book! for it deals with Ambrose's public career very thoroughly . . . something we have long been waiting for . . . a hard-headed account! keeping well clear of either hagiography or denigration! presenting many of the central episodes of Ambrose's career in an entirely new light."-Robert Markus "Ambrose of Milan has long needed the modern biography which Neil McLynn has now written. Here is a learned and thorough work! absorbingly readable! bringing Ambrose vividly to life."-Sir Henry Chadwick! Oxford University "McLynn has something fresh and (usually) revisionist to say about every familiar episode in this period! and he succeeds in exposing a very different Ambrose-a sweat-soaked saint who knew how to struggle and improvise."-Hal Drake! University of California! Santa Barbara "McLynn possesses an impressive control of the general history of the period! as well as a detailed knowledge of specific events in which Ambrose was a participant! or even the 'impresario.' He gives us a critical and nuanced book about this important bishop! which will change how we read and think about Ambrose."-Carole Straw! Mount Holyoke College Zusammenfassung An interpretation of Ambrose, bishop of Milan from 374 to 397. It reveals Ambrose's manipulation of events without making him too Machiavellian. It presents a study of the politics and history of the Christian church and the Roman Empire in that period. It traces the chronology of Ambrose's public activity. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. The Reluctant Bishop Chapter 2. Consolidation Chapter 3. Ambrose and Gratian Chapter 4. Persecution Chapter 5. Ambrose's People! I: Master of Ceremonies Chapter 6. Ambrose's People! II: Friends and Influence Chapter 7. Ambrose and Theodosius Chapter 8. Sanctity Bibliography Index ...
