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Being Christian in late antiquity : a festschrift for Gillian Clark / edited by Carol Harrison, Caroline Humfress, and Isabella Sandwell.

Contributor(s): Harrison, Carol [editor.] | Humfress, Caroline [editor.] | Sandwell, Isabella [editor.] | Clark, Gillian (E. Gillian) [honouree.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014Edition: First Edition published in 2014Description: xii, 302 pages : illustration ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199656035; 0199656037Subject(s): Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Clark, Gillian (E. Gillian)Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The discourses of Gillian Clark / Averil Cameron -- Being Christian through reading, writing, and hearing -- Why don't Jews write biography? / Simon Goldhill -- The Maccabean mother between pagans, Jews, and Christians / Tessa Rajak -- On the status of books in early Christianity / Guy G. Stroumsa -- An inextinguishable memory: 'pagan' past and presence in early Christian writing / Josef Lössl -- Playing ball: Augustine and Plutarch on capturing wisdom / Carol Harrison -- Being Christian in community -- Fiunt, non nascuntur Christiani: conversion, community, and Christian identity in late antiquity / Andrew Louth -- Julian and the Christian professors / Neil McLynn -- The city of Augustine: on the interpretation of Civitas / Catherine Conybeare -- Christianity and authority in late antiquity: the transformation of the concept of auctoritas / Karla Pollmann -- Church councils and local authority: the development of Gallic libri canonum during late antiquity / Ralph W. Mathisen -- The particularities of being Christian -- The empresses' tale, AD 300-360 / Jill Harries -- 'Being female': verse commemoration at the Coemeterium S. Agnetis (Via Nomentana) / Dennis Trout -- Self-portrait as a landscape: Ausonius and his herediolum / Oliver Nicholson -- Fashions for Varro in late antiquity and Christian ways with books / Mark Vessey -- The image of a Christian monk in northern Syria: Symeon Stylites the Younger / Fergus Millar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The discourses of Gillian Clark / Averil Cameron -- Part I. Being Christian through reading, writing, and hearing -- Why don't Jews write biography? / Simon Goldhill -- The Maccabean mother between pagans, Jews, and Christians / Tessa Rajak -- On the status of books in early Christianity / Guy G. Stroumsa -- An inextinguishable memory: 'pagan' past and presence in early Christian writing / Josef Lössl -- Playing ball: Augustine and Plutarch on capturing wisdom / Carol Harrison -- Part II. Being Christian in community -- Fiunt, non nascuntur Christiani: conversion, community, and Christian identity in late antiquity / Andrew Louth -- Julian and the Christian professors / Neil McLynn -- The city of Augustine: on the interpretation of Civitas / Catherine Conybeare -- Christianity and authority in late antiquity: the transformation of the concept of auctoritas / Karla Pollmann -- Church councils and local authority: the development of Gallic libri canonum during late antiquity / Ralph W. Mathisen -- Part III. The particularities of being Christian -- The empresses' tale, AD 300-360 / Jill Harries -- 'Being female': verse commemoration at the Coemeterium S. Agnetis (Via Nomentana) / Dennis Trout -- Self-portrait as a landscape: Ausonius and his herediolum / Oliver Nicholson -- Fashions for Varro in late antiquity and Christian ways with books / Mark Vessey -- The image of a Christian monk in northern Syria: Symeon Stylites the Younger / Fergus Millar.

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