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"What did people in the early Christian period (4th-7th century CE) think about the ancient, pagan inscriptions filling their cities? Why, for example, is the famous Res Gestae of the "divine" Augustus almost perfectly preserved on the walls of a temple in Ankara in Asia Minor, even though the city became a Christian imperial center? The prima facie explanation-that late Romans ignored the older epigraphic material around them-is proven untrue in this book. By gathering both literary and archaeological evidence, this study indicates that early Christians (and late pagans, Jews) in the eastern Mediterranean interpreted older inscriptions in Greek and other languages through their own worldviews. After establishing the modes of reading ancient inscriptions in the textual sources, the book presents a series of archaeological case studies spanning from Greece to Egypt, which reveal three possible reactions to epigraphic material-preservation, spoliation, and erasure-at pagan sanctuaries, the physical and discursive spaces in which the "culture wars" of early Christian hegemony were fought. Intersecting with research on spolia, damnatio memoriae, and the fates of pagan statues, this book makes a critical intervention in the fields of epigraphy and archaeology by arguing for the transtemporal agency of inscriptions. It adds a new facet to the study of "Christianization" in the Roman world by proposing that ancient inscriptions contributed to broader attitudes about the (pagan) past in late antiquity, attitudes that continued to color how people in the medieval period and beyond evaluated classical patrimony"--

Architectural inscriptions --- Christianity and culture --- Language and culture --- Christianity and other religions --- Social perception --- Inscriptions architecturales --- Inculturation --- Langage et culture --- Christianisme --- Relations

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Theology --- Christianity --- Christian education --- theology --- religion --- christian education --- christian worldview --- Theology. --- Christianity. --- Christian education. --- Education, Christian --- Religious education --- Theology, Practical --- Spiritual formation --- Religions --- Church history --- Christian theology --- Theology, Christian --- Religion --- Study and teaching

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Church history --- -Monophysites --- Christian heresies --- Oriental Orthodox churches --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History --- Monophysites. --- Monophysites --- 273.913 --- #GOSA:III.CHR.M --- Monofysieten --- 273.913 Monofysieten --- #GOSA:II.ME.Alg.M --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Monophisites --- Eglise --- Histoire --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

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History --- Salvation --- Histoire --- Salut --- Philosophy --- History of doctrines --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Philosophie --- Histoire des doctrines --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- History of doctrines. --- History - Philosophy --- Histoire - Philosophie --- Théologie et philosophie --- Discours, essais, conférences

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Five hundred years ago a monk nailed his theses to a church gate in Wittenberg. The sound of Luther’s mythical hammer, however, was by no means the only aural manifestation of the religious Reformations.This book describes the birth of Lutheran Chorales and Calvinist Psalmody; of how music was practised by Catholic nuns, Lutheran schoolchildren, battling Huguenots, missionaries and martyrs, cardinals at Trent and heretics in hiding, at a time when Palestrina, Lasso and Tallis were composing their masterpieces, and forbidden songs were concealed, smuggled and sung in taverns and princely courts alike.Music expressed faith in the Evangelicals’ emerging worships and in the Catholics’ ancient rites; through it new beliefs were spread and heresy countered; analysed by humanist theorists, it comforted and consoled miners, housewives and persecuted preachers; it was both the symbol of new, conflicting identities and the only surviving trace of a lost unity of faith.The music of the Reformations, thus, was music reformed, music reforming and the reform of music: this book shows what the Reformations sounded like, and how music became one of the protagonists in the religious conflicts of the sixteenth century.

Church music --- Reformation. --- Protestant Reformation --- Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- Pastoral music (Sacred) --- Religious music --- Sacred vocal music --- Devotional exercises --- Liturgics --- Music --- Music in churches --- Psalmody --- History --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity