TY - BOOK ID - 30640723 TI - Death's dominion : power, identity, and memory at the fourth-century martyr shrine PY - 2016 SN - 9781781790823 9781781790816 1781790817 1781790825 PB - Sheffield Equinox DB - UniCat KW - Shrines. KW - Martyrs KW - Pilgrims and pilgrimages. KW - Christianity and other religions. KW - Cults. KW - 235.3*72 KW - Christianity KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Syncretism (Christianity) KW - Religions KW - Processions, Religious KW - Travelers KW - Voyages and travels KW - Shrines KW - Cult of martyrs KW - Invocation of martyrs KW - Veneration of martyrs KW - Worship of martyrs KW - Cults KW - Sacred space KW - Pilgrims and pilgrimages KW - Alternative religious movements KW - Cult KW - Cultus KW - Marginal religious movements KW - New religions KW - New religious movements KW - NRMs (Religion) KW - Religious movements, Alternative KW - Religious movements, Marginal KW - Religious movements, New KW - Sects KW - 235.3*72 Martelaren--"04/14" KW - 235.3*72 Martyrs--"04/14" KW - Martelaren--"04/14" KW - Martyrs--"04/14" KW - Cult. KW - Relations KW - History KW - Pilgrimages and pilgrims KW - Spiritual tourism KW - Martyrs - Cult KW - Martyres UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30640723 AB - Through a discussion of power dynamics with a critical eye towards the political situation of influential Christian leaders including Constantine, Damasus, Ambrose, and Augustine, Death's Dominion demonstrates the ways in which these individuals sought to craft Christian identity and cultural memory around the martyr shrine. Other recent scholarship on the martyr cult has conflated issues of the early fifth century with those from the early fourth, with little discussion of the development of the martyr cult during the intervening decades. Death's Dominion corrects that omission by presenting a diachronic focus on the development of the martyr cult in the pivotal fourth century. During this period the martyr cult was repeatedly a decisive tool for the augmentation and solidification of civil and religious authority.Late in the fourth century pilgrimage created a network within Christianity which ultimately led to a catholic Christian understanding of the martyrs' graves by broadening the appeal of regional practices to disparate audiences. This simultaneously reinforced and subverted the desired message of those who sought to craft the meaning associated with the martyrs' remains. Pilgrims helped manufacture a homogenized understanding of the martyr cult ultimately enabling it to become one of the most identifiable features of Christianity in subsequent centuries. ER -