Memories of utopia : the revision of histories and landscapes in Late Antiquity /

"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...

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Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Other Authors:	Neil, Bronwen (Editor), Simić, Kosta (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:	Routledge monographs in classical studies.
Subjects:	Utopias > Religious aspects. Utopias > History > To 1500. Utopias > Byzantine Empire. Byzantine Empire > Civilization. Utopies > Empire byzantin. Empire byzantin > Civilisation. HISTORY / Ancient / General Civilization Utopias Utopias > Religious aspects Byzantine Empire To 1500 Conference of Carthage christianity and paganism in late antiquity christianity and polytheism in late antiquity christians and pagans in late antiquity christians and polytheists in late antiquity christian identity and sacred sites christian tombs under julian creation of christian identity early christianity middle east early christianity north africa early christians and diaspora jews early christians and greco roman art early christians and pagan art early christian environment early christian landscapes early christian middle east early christian north africa Formation of Early Christian Identity Gregory of Tours' Lives of the Saints greco-roman religion and christianity idols and early christianity jerome and christian identity julian and cynicism julian and the cynics julian the apostate late antique eusebia late antique ritual space Manipulation of Memory under Julian mediterranean ritual space memories of utopia Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Curating the past : the retrieval of historical memories and utopian ideals / Bronwen Neil
Julian's cynics : remembering for future purposes / Philip Bosman
Memories of trauma and the formation of a Christian identity / Jonathan P. Conant
Augustine's memory of the 411 confrontation with Emeritus of Cherchell / Geoffrey D. Dunn
Purity and the rewriting of memory : revisiting Julian's disgust for the Christian worship of corpses and its consequences / Wendy Mayer
Constructing the sacred in late Antiquity : Jerome as a guide to Christian identity / Naoki Kamimura
Utopia, body, and pastness in John Chrysostom / Chris L. de Wet
Memories of peace and violence in the late-antique West / Bronwen Neil
Two foreign saints in Palestine : responses to religious conflict in the fifth to seventh centuries / Pauline Allen, Kosta Simic
Remembering the damned : Byzantine liturgical hymns as instruments of religious polemics / Kosta Simic
Paradise regained? Utopias of deliverance in seventh-century apocalyptic discourse / Ryan W. Strickler
Ausonius, Fortunatus, and the ruins of the Moselle / Chris Bishop
Spitting on statues and shaving Hercules's beard : the conflict over images (and idols) in early Christianity / Robin M. Jensen
Athena, patroness of the marketplace : from Athens to Constantinople / Janet Wade
Transformation of Mediterranean ritual spaces up to the early Arab conquests / Leonela Fundic.