Heirs of Roman Persecution: Studies on a Christian and Para-Christian Discourse in Late Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781032088198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 362 str.

Éric Fournier; Wendy Mayer

Opis

The subject of this book is the discourse of persecution used by Christians in Late Antiquity (c. 300-700 CE). Through case studies covering the full chronological and geographical span of the period, it investigates how the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity changed the way that Christians perceived their hostile treatment.

Spis treści

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. Éric Fournier The Christian Discourse of Persecution in Late Antiquity: An







Introduction.





Part I: The Later Roman Empire of the 4^th and 5^th Centuries












2. Elizabeth Depalma Digeser Breaking the Apocalyptic Frame: Persecution and the Rise of







Constantine.









3. Nathaniel Morehouse Begrudging the Honor: Julian and Christian Martyrdom.











4. Maijastina Kahlos A Misunderstood Emperor? Valens as a Persecuting







Ruler in Late Antique Literature.









5. Byron MacDougall Theologies under Persecution: Gregory of Nazianzus and







the Syntagmation of Aetius.









6. Adam Ployd For Their Own Good: Augustine and the Rhetoric of







Beneficial Persecution.









7. Mattias Brand In the Footsteps of the Apostles of Light: Persecution and







the Manichaean Discourse of Suffering.





Part II: Post-Roman Kingdoms of the Western Mediterranean (5^th and 7^th Centuries)












8. Éric Fournier ‘To Collect Gold from Hidden Caves.’ Victor of Vita and the







Vandal ‘Persecution’ of Heretical Barbarians in Late Antique North Africa.









9. Samuel Cohen ‘You Have Made Common Cause with their Persecutors’:







Gelasius, the Language of Persecution, and the Acacian Schism.









10. Éric Fournier Everyone but the Kings: The Rhetoric of (Non-)Persecution in







Gregory of Tours’ Histories.









11. Molly Lester Persecutio, Seductio, and the Limits of Rhetorical Intolerance in







Visigothic Iberia.





Part III: Eastern Mediterranean in the 5^th-7^th Centuries












12. Rebecca S. Falcasantos The City a Palimpsest. Rewriting Arian Violence in Fifth-







Century Historiography.









13. Jason Osequeda The Name of Ill-Omen: Basiliscus and the Church in







Constantinople.









14. Christine Shepardson Martyrs of Exile: John of Ephesus and Religious







Persecution.









15. Ryan Strickler Persecution and Apostasy: Christian Identity during the







Crises of the Seventh Century.





Concluding Reflections









16. Wendy Mayer Heirs of Roman Persecution: Common Threads in the

Discursive Strategies across Late Antiquity.

Index

O autorze

Éric Fournier is Professor of History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Wendy Mayer is Associate Dean for Research and Professor at University of Divinity, Australian Lutheran College.