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Eusebius' 'Ecclesiastical History', written in the early fourth century, continues to serve as our primary gateway to a crucial three hundred year period: the rise of early Christianity under the Roman Empire. James Corke-Webster undertakes the first systematic study considering the History in the light of its fourth-century circumstances as well as its author's personal history, intellectual commitments, and literary abilities. He argues that the 'Ecclesiastical History' is not simply an attempt to record the past history of Christianity, but a sophisticated mission statement that uses events and individuals from that past to mould a new vision of Christianity tailored to Eusebius' fourth-century context. He presents elite Graeco-Roman Christians with a picture of their faith that smooths off its rough edges and misrepresents its size, extent, nature, and relationship to Rome. Ultimately, Eusebius suggests that Christianity was - and always had been - the Empire's natural heir.

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"The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood throws fresh light on narratives about Christian holy men and women from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Rather than focusing on the relationship between story and reality, it asks what literary choices authors made in depicting their heroes and heroines: how they positioned the narrator, how they responded to existing texts, how they utilised or transcended genre conventions for their own purposes, and how they sought to relate to their audiences. The literary focus of the chapters assembled here showcases the diversity of hagiographical texts written in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac, as well as pointing out the ongoing conversations that connect them. By asking these questions of this diverse group of texts, it illuminates the literary development of hagiography in the late antique, Byzantine, and medieval periods"--

Christian hagiography --- Christian literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- 235.3 "04/14" --- 235.3 "04/14" Hagiografie--Middeleeuwen --- 235.3 "04/14" Hagiographie--Middeleeuwen --- Hagiografie--Middeleeuwen --- Hagiographie--Middeleeuwen --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Religion. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Classical studies. --- Christian hagiography - History and criticism --- Christian literature - History and criticism