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Author Brown, Peter, 1935-

Title Society and the holy in late antiquity / Peter Brown.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1982]
©1982

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 Moore Stacks  BL805 .B74 1982    Available  ---
Description vii, 347 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Approaches: Learning and imagination -- Gibbon's view on culture and society in the fifth and sixth centuries -- In Gibbon's shade -- Mohammed and Charlemagne by Henri Pirenne -- pt. 2. Society and the holy: Last pagan emperor: Robert Browning's The Emperor Julian -- Rise and function of the holy man in late antiquity -- Town, village and holy man: the case of Syria -- Eastern and Western Christendom in late antiquity: a parting of the ways -- View from the precipice -- Artifices of eternity -- Relics and social status in the age of Gregory of Tours -- A dark age crisis: aspects of the iconoclastic controversy -- Society and the supernatural: a medieval change.
Local Note Gift of Paul and Mary Haas.
Subject Rome -- Religion.
Rome (Empire)
Religion.
Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476.
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
ISBN 0520043057
9780520043053