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Informationen zum Autor Michael Gaddis is Associate Professor of History at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Klappentext "This is an extremely interesting! stimulating and very useful book. Gaddis has succeeded in drawing together a wide geographic and chronological range of materials to give a nuanced and comprehensive picture. Though a prevalent theme in the ancient authors that has been studied on occasion! Christian violence has had to wait until now for a systematic treatment."-Susanna Elm! author of Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity "Gaddis tackles head on the darker side of familiar victories-the heroism and courage of martyrs! the toleration and expansion of Christianity! the cultivation and influence of holiness-and does so with verve and a breadth of reference and learning. His book provides not only a rounded picture of the late Roman Christian empire but also bases for reflection on contemporary issues."-Philip Rousseau! author of The Early Christian Centuries Zusammenfassung Looks at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, a period shaped by the marriage of Christian ideology and Roman imperial power. This book reveals how various groups employed the language of religious violence to construct their own identities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. "What Has the Emperor to Do with the Church?" Persecution and Martyrdom from Diocletian to Constantine 2. "The God of the Martyrs Refuses You": Religious Violence! Political Discourse! and Christian Identity in the Century after Constantine 3. An Eye for an Eye: Religious Violence in Donatist Africa 4. Temperata Severitas: Augustine! the State! and Disciplinary Violence 5. "There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ": Holy Men and Holy Violence in the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries 6. "The Monks Commit Many Crimes": Holy Violence Contested 7. "Sanctify Thy Hand by the Blow": Problematizing Episcopal Power 8. Non Iudicium sed Latrocinium: Of Holy Synods and Robber Councils Conclusion Bibliography Index ...
