Memories of Utopia: The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781138328679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 284 str.

Bronwen Neil; Kosta Simic

Opis

These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE.

Spis treści

Part I: Writing and rewriting the history of conflicts  1. Curating the past: The retrieval of historical memories and utopian ideals  2. Julian’s Cynics: Remembering for future purposes  3. Memories of trauma and the formation of an early Christian identity  4. Augustine’s memory of the 411 confrontation with Emeritus of Cherchell  Part II: Forging a new utopia: Holy bodies and holy places  5. Purity and the rewriting of memory: Revisiting Julian’s disgust for the Christian worship of corpses and its consequences  6. Constructing the sacred in Late Antiquity: Jerome as a guide to Christian identity  7. Utopia, body, and pastness in John Chrysostom  Part III: Rewriting landscapes: Creating new memories of the past  8. Memories of peace and violence in the late-antique West  9. Two foreign saints in Palestine: Responses to religious conflict in the fifth to seventh centuries  10. Remembering the damned: Byzantine liturgical hymns as instruments of religious polemics  11. Paradise regained? Utopias of deliverance in seventh-century apocalyptic discourse  12. Ausonius, Fortunatus, and the ruins of the Moselle  Part IV: Memory and materiality  13. Spitting on statues and saving Hercules’s beard: The conflict over images (and idols) in early Christianity  14. Athena, patroness of the marketplace: From Athens to Constantinople  15. Transformation of Mediterranean ritual spaces up to the early Arab conquests  Epilogue