Stasis

Crowd Violence and Religious-Political Discourses in Late Antiquity
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-16-162637-1
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 403 g

Reihe: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum

Building on the premise that episodes of violence also manifest through texts and narratives that originated within specific communicative settings, Jonathan Stutz explores the manifold interconnections between (religious) violence and late antique rhetoric. By focusing the fourth century in particular, he addresses a period of time that was marked by profound political transformations and religious conflicts. The author delves into various examples where manifestations of collective violence became the object of strategies of legitimation and de-legitimation, as well as of moral and theological discourses. Throughout the different chapters, he examines how orations, homilies, letters, and polemical treatises provided a platform for emperors, rhetors, and Christian church leaders in their aim to define their own role and that of their interlocutors within the conflicts they witnessed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stutz, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen

Über Autor(innen)

Stutz, Jonathan
Born 1986; 2016 PhD; Assistant at the Faculty for Protestant Theology at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich; Visiting Professor at the department for Ancient Christianity at the Faculty of Theology at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.