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Zusatztext Offering a critically framed selection of Late Roman Christian texts, this volume offers a current as well as comprehensive overview of the issues, authors, and problems of Christianization from the third to seventh centuries. David M. Gwynn has helpfully distilled much recent scholarship into a lively narrative of this transitional era, presenting traditional texts and authors in an accessible framework as well as presenting a broad bibliography for further reading. Informationen zum Autor David Gwynn is lecturer in ancient and late antique history at Royal Holloway, University of London. Vorwort This sourcebook of primary material with full commentary on the Church in the later Roman empire provides a much-needed resource for students and teachers. Zusammenfassung This sourcebook gathers into a single collection the writings that illuminate one of the most fundamental periods in the history of Christian Europe. Beginning from the Great Persecution of Diocletian and the conversion of Constantine the first Christian Roman emperor, the volume explores Christianity’s rise as the dominant religion of the Later Roman empire and how the Church survived the decline and fall of Roman power in the west and converted the Germanic tribes who swept into the western empire. These years of crisis and transformation inspired generations of great writers, among them Eusebius of Caesarea, Ammianus Marcellinus, Julian ‘the Apostate’, Ambrose of Milan, John Chrysostom, Jerome and Augustine of Hippo. They were also years which saw Christianity face huge challenges on many crucial questions, from the evolution of Christian doctrine and the rise of asceticism to the place of women in the early Church and the emerging relationship between Church and state. All these themes will be made accessible to specialists and general readers alike, and the sourcebook will be invaluable for students and teachers of courses in history and church history, the world of late antiquity, and religious studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Acknowledgements Chronological Table 1. Christianity and Rome 2. The Great Persecution 3. The Conversion of Constantine 4. Constantine and the Imperial Church 5. The Donatist Schism 6. The Doctrine of the Trinity 7. Scripture and Liturgy 8. The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy 9. Emperor and Bishop 10. Asceticism and Monasticism 11. Christianization 12. Paideia: Christianity and Classical Culture 13. Christians, Jews and Manichees 14. Gender and Society 15. Holy Men and Holy Women 16. Pilgrimage and Relics 17. Missionaries and Kings 18. The City of God 19. The Christological Controversies 20. Christianity and the Barbarian Invasions Epilogue: The Dawn of Medieval Christendom General Bibliography Index of authors and texts Index of Scriptural citations General Index...
