Empire and religion in the Roman world [electronic resource] / edited by Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University.

"Introduction:Patterns and Paradigms in the Ancient Mediterranean Harriet I. Flower Who are you? The question had been at the center of the crisis in African Christianity, as bishops and priests, deacons and lay persons, landowners and tenants, fishermen and moneychangers, craftsmen and civil servan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flower, Harriet I. (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: Subjects of empire: political and cultural exchange in Imperial Rome (Conference)
Other Authors: Shaw, Brent D. (honouree.)
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Christianity > Rome > History.
Rome > History.
Rome > Politics and government.
Rome > Church history.
Rome > Religion.
Rome > Religious life and customs.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2021 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Contents:
  • Germs and empire: the agency of the microscopic / Kyle Harperz
  • Imperial integration on Rome's Atlantic Rim / Carlos Noreña
  • The ambitions of government: sovereignty and control in the ancient countryside / Clifford Ando
  • Contingency and context: the origins of the Jewish war against Rome / Erich S. Gruen
  • The first Christian family of Egypt / Sabine R. Huebner
  • Missionaries, pious merchants, freelance religious experts, and the spread of Christianity / Éric Rebillard
  • Christian piety in late antiquity: contexts and contestations / Claudia Rapp
  • Ausonius at the edge of empire: consular poetics as cognitive improvisation / Mark Vessey
  • Peregrinationes in Psalmos / Catherine Conybeare
  • Muhammad's rivals: prophets in late antique Arabia / Glen W. Bowersock
  • Epilogue: Brent Shaw: An Intellectual Profile / Peter Brown
  • Bibliography of Brent Shaw's publications to 2020.