Buch, Englisch, 379 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 508 g
Buch, Englisch, 379 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 508 g
Reihe: Greek Culture in the Roman World
ISBN: 978-1-009-29927-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the rise and consolidation of a Christian politics of interpretation that relied on exegesis as a self-legitimising device to secure control over Roman history via claims to Christianity's control of paideia. This reconstruction infuses Julian's reaction with contextual significance. His literary and political project emerges as a response to contemporary reconfigurations of Christian hermeneutics as controlling the meaning of Rome's culture and history. At the same time, understanding Julian as a participant in a larger debate re-qualifies all fourth-century political and episcopal discourse as a long knock-on effect reacting to the imperial mobilisation of Christian debates over the link between power and culture.
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Introduction; Part I. At Constantius' Court: Julian Caeser: 1. How philosophers should take compliments when they happen to become kings; 2. Climbing the ladder; Part II. Making and Breaking Constantine: Julian Augustus; 3. Holy hermeneutics; 4. A life for a life; Part III. After Julian: Philosophy in the World: 5. Those who know if the emperor knows; 6. Wisdom for the many, and wisdom for the few; Conclusions.
