TY - BOOK ID - 17336421 TI - Pagans and christians in the late Roman empire : new evidence, new approaches (4th-8th centuries) AU - Sághy, Marianne AU - Schoolman, Edward M. PY - 2017 VL - 18 SN - 15876470 SN - 9789633862551 9633862558 9633862566 PB - Budapest: Central European university press, DB - UniCat KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Paganism KW - 27 "03/07" KW - Civilization, Pagan KW - Heathenism KW - Religions KW - Christianity KW - Syncretism (Christianity) KW - 27 "03/07" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"03/07" KW - 27 "03/07" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03/07" KW - Histoire de l'Eglise--?"03/07" KW - Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03/07" KW - Roman KW - Relations KW - History KW - Rome KW - Religion. KW - Christianisme KW - --Paganisme KW - --Relation KW - --Europe KW - --IIIe-VIIIe s., KW - Christianisme. KW - Paganisme. KW - Relations. KW - Religion KW - Europe KW - Paganisme KW - Relation KW - IIIe-VIIIe s., 201-800 KW - Paganisme et christianisme UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17336421 AB - Do the terms ‘pagan’ and ‘Christian,’ ‘transition from paganism to Christianity’ still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting ‘pagans’ and ‘Christians’ in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between ‘pagans’ and ‘Christians’ replaced the old ‘conflict model’ with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if ‘paganism’ had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, ‘Christianity’ came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, ‘pagans’ and ‘Christians’ lived ‘in between’ polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies ER -