Christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schott, Jeremy M., 1977-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
Series:Divinations.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: identity politics in the later Roman Empire
  • Philosophers, apologists, and empire
  • Porphyry on Greeks, Christians, and others
  • Vera religio and falsae religiones: Lactantius's divine institutes
  • What difference does an emperor make? apologetics and imperial ideology in Constantine's Oration to the saints and imperial letters
  • From Hebrew wisdom to Christian hegemony: Eusebius of Caesarea's apologetics and panegyrics
  • Epilogue: empire's palimpsest
  • Appendix: Porphyry's polemics and the great persecution.