TY - BOOK ID - 3446572 TI - Riot in Alexandria : tradition and group dynamics in late antique pagan and Christian communities PY - 2010 VL - 46 SN - 9780520262072 0520262077 PB - Berkeley: University of California press, DB - UniCat KW - Paganism KW - Christian communities KW - Asceticism KW - Alexandrian school, Christian. KW - Education, Ancient KW - Riots KW - Paganisme KW - Communautés chrétiennes KW - Ascétisme KW - Ecole chrétienne d'Alexandrie KW - Education antique KW - Emeutes KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Alexandria (Egypt) KW - Alexandrie (Egypte) KW - Intellectual life. KW - Church history. KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Histoire religieuse KW - Alexandrian school, Christian KW - Intellectual life KW - Church history KW - -Christian communities KW - -Asceticism KW - -Alexandrian school, Christian. KW - -Riots KW - -27 <32 ALEXANDRIA> KW - Civil disorders KW - Assembly, Right of KW - Offenses against public safety KW - Political violence KW - Crowds KW - Demonstrations KW - Mobs KW - Street fighting (Military science) KW - Education KW - Alexandrian theology KW - Christian Alexandrian school KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Antiochian school KW - Ascetical theology KW - Contempt of the world KW - Theology, Ascetical KW - Christian life KW - Ethics KW - Christian communes KW - Communes, Christian KW - Communities, Christian KW - Religious communities KW - Civilization, Pagan KW - Heathenism KW - Religions KW - History. KW - -History. KW - Kerkgeschiedenis--Oud-Egypte--ALEXANDRIA KW - -Alexandria (Egypt) KW - -Intellectual life. KW - Communautés chrétiennes KW - Ascétisme KW - Ecole chrétienne d'Alexandrie KW - 27 <32 ALEXANDRIA> KW - Iskandarīyah (Egypt) KW - Alexandrie (Egypt) KW - Aleksandriyah (Egypt) KW - Alessandria (Egypt) KW - Alexandreia (Egypt) KW - Aleksandria (Egypt) KW - Alexantreia (Egypt) KW - Alesandriʼa (Egypt) KW - الإسكندرية (Egypt) KW - الإسكندرية (مصر) KW - اسكندرية (Egypt) KW - Paganism - Egypt - Alexandria - History KW - Christian communities - Egypt - Alexandria - History KW - Asceticism - History - Early church, ca 30-600 KW - Education, Ancient - Egypt - Alexandria KW - Riots - Egypt - Alexandria - History KW - Paganisme et christianisme KW - Alexandrie KW - Evêques KW - Alexandria (Egypt) - Intellectual life KW - Alexandria (Egypt) - Church history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3446572 AB - This innovative study uses one well-documented moment of violence as a starting point for a wide-ranging examination of the ideas and interactions of pagan philosophers, Christian ascetics, and bishops from the fourth to the early seventh century. Edward J. Watts reconstructs a riot that erupted in Alexandria in 486 when a group of students attacked a Christian adolescent who had publicly insulted the students' teachers. Pagan students, Christians affiliated with a local monastery, and the Alexandrian ecclesiastical leaders all cast the incident in a different light, and each group tried with that interpretation to influence subsequent events. Watts, drawing on Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac sources, shows how historical traditions and notions of a shared past shaped the interactions and behavior of these high-profile communities. Connecting oral and written texts to the personal relationships that gave them meaning and to the actions that gave them form, Riot in Alexandria draws new attention to the understudied social and cultural history of the later fifth-century Roman world and at the same time opens a new window on late antique intellectual life. ER -