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From temple to church
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ISSN: 09277633 ISBN: 9789004283220 9789004131415 9789047443735 9004131418 904744373X 1282396307 9786612396304 Year: 2008 Volume: 163 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Destruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of late antique change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception. Contemporaries were aware of these events’ far-reaching symbolic significance and of their immediate impact as demonstrations of political power and religious conviction. Joined in any “temple-destruction” are the meaning of the monument, actions taken, and subsequent literary discourse. Paradigms of perception, specific interests, and forms of expression of quite various protagonists clashed. Archaeologists, historians, and historians of religion illuminate “temple-destruction” from different perspectives, analysing local configurations within larger contexts, both regional and imperial, in order to find an appropriate larger perspective on this phenomenon within the late antique movement “from temple to church”.

Corinth : the first city of Greece : an urban history of late antique cult and religion
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ISSN: 09277633 ISBN: 9004109226 9004301496 9789004109223 Year: 2000 Volume: 139 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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This book addresses cult and religion in the city of Corinth from the 4th to 7th centuries of our era. The work incorporates and synthesizes all available evidence, literary, archaeological and other. The interaction and conflict between Christian and non-Christian activity is placed into its urban context and seen as simultaneously existing and overlapping cultural activity. Late antique religion is defined as cult-based rather than doctrinally-based, and thus this volume focuses not on what people believed, but rather what they did. An emphasis on cult activity reveals a variety of types of interaction between groups, ranging from confrontational events at dilapidated polytheist cult sites, to full polysemous and shared cult activity at the so-called 'Fountain of the Lamps'. Non-Christian traditions are shown to have been recognized and viable through the sixth century. The tentative conclusion is drawn that a clear definition of 'pagan' and 'Christian' begins at an urban level with the Christian re-monumentalization of Corinth with basilicas. The disappearance of 'pagan' cult is best attributed to the development of a new city socially and physically based in Christianity, rather than any purely 'religious' development.


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L' Empreinte chrétienne en Gaule du IVe au IXe siècle
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ISBN: 9782503550442 2503550444 Year: 2014 Volume: 26 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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Ce volume contient les textes de la plupart des communications effectuées lors de trois journées d'étude tenues à l'Université de Lille 3, à l'automne 2010. Ces journées avaient pour but de présenter les recherches en cours sur la topographie religieuse des villes épiscopales, de mieux faire connaître les espaces ruraux, objets de nombreux et récents travaux archéologiques et historiques, tout en étudiant les changements intervenus au cours de ces six siècles dans le domaine des normes et comportements sociaux. Les vingt contributions ici offertes entraînent le lecteur de la législation constantinienne à la normalisation carolingienne, des premiers signes archéologiques de la présence du christianisme aux prémices de la paroisse médiévale, des premiers monastères aux communautés cénobitiques strictement encadrées par les réformes carolingiennes, des plus hauts lieux du christianisme gaulois ou gallo-franc à des sites moins illustres mais tout autant chargés d'histoire. Les auteurs ont inscrit leurs réflexions dans les grandes problématiques qui animent aujourd'hui l'archéologie et l'historiographie des débuts du christianisme en Occident, ce qui permet d'apprécier, à chaque étape de ce long itinéraire, l'empreinte du christianisme en Gaule aux premiers siècles de son histoire

Early Egyptian christianity : from its origins to 451 C.E.
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ISSN: 01675818 ISBN: 9004091599 9789004091597 9004094075 9004119264 9004497412 9789004094079 Year: 1991 Volume: 2 Publisher: Leiden Brill


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Des musées d'histoire pour l'avenir : Actes du colloque qui s'est tenu à l'Historial de la Grande Guerre, à Péronne, les 19, 20 et 21 novembre 1996
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ISBN: 2911606094 9782911606090 Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris Editions Noêsis


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Ennode de Pavie. Lettres
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ISSN: 01847155 ISBN: 9782251014432 9782251014562 2251014438 225101456X Year: 2006 Volume: 383, 395 Publisher: Paris Belles Lettres


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De la grande déesse à la vierge majesté : histoire d'un mythe par l'image
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ISSN: 03787923 ISBN: 9782803102822 280310282X Year: 2011 Volume: 30 Publisher: Bruxelles Académie royale de Belgique


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De eerste christenen : hun denken en doen
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ISBN: 9789077942383 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leuven Kampen Davidsfonds Kok

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In geen tijd wisten een handjevol eenvoudige lui dat Christus gevolgd was hun overtuiging en levenswijze te laten doordringen to in de verste uithoeken van de wereld. Een bijna geruisloze revolutie die het vooral moest hebben van mond - tot - mondreclame. Onze kennis over het begin van de christelijke cultuur is gebaseerd op geschreven bronnen. Een totaalvisie ontbreekt omdat de studie van de materiële cultuur, die ons rechtstreeks in contact brengt met het verleden, nog niet eerder te boek werd gesteld. De auteur neemt de lezer mee naar de wereld van het vroege christendom en schetst het cultureel - antropologisch kader aan de hand van illustraties. Hij maakt niet enkel kennis met het leven van elke dag, funeraire praktijken en beeldtaal, maar ook met de (vroeg) christelijke kunst. Bovendien gaat Provoost ook uitvoerig in op de expansie van het geloof: christenen bouwen eigen cultus gebouwen, Europa en Azië worden gechristianiseerd, kluizen en kloosters kennen een sterke groei en het proces van pelgrimstochten komt op gang

Portraits of spiritual authority : religions power in early Christianity, Byzantium and the Christian Orient
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ISSN: 09277633 ISBN: 9004114599 9004295917 9789004114593 Year: 1999 Volume: 137 Publisher: Leiden Brill, E. J.

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This volume deals with several figures of spiritual authority in Christianity during late antiquity and the early middle ages, and seeks to illuminate the way in which the struggle for religious influence evolved with changes in church and society. A number of literary portraits are examined, portraits which, in various literary genres, are themselves designed to establish and propagate the authority of the people whose lives and activities they describe. The sequence begins with visionary and prophetic figures of the second and third centuries, proceeds through several testimonies from the fourth century to the power of holy persons, moves on to Syriac portraits of the fifth to seventh centuries, and ends with the demise of the authority of the holy man in the eighth.

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