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.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Religion. |
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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ISBN |
0520043057 |
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9780520043053 |
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