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Beginning with Saint Barbatianus, a fifth-century wonderworking monk and confessor to the Empress Galla Placidia, this book focuses on the changes in the religious landscape of Ravenna, a former capital of the Late Roman Empire, through the Middle Ages. During this period, written stories about saints and their relics not only offered guidance and solace but were also used by those living among the ruins of a once great city-particularly its archbishops, monks, and the urban aristocracy-to reflect on its past glory. This practice remained important to the citizens of Ravenna as they came to terms with the city's revival and renewed relevance in the tenth century under Ottonian rule. In using the 'vita' of Barbatianus as a central text, Edward M. Schoolman explores how saints and sanctity were created and ultimately came to influence complex political and social networks, from the Late Roman Empire to the High Middle Ages.
Christian hagiography --- Christian saints --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens --- History --- Biography --- Histoire --- Biographies --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens --- Saints --- Canonization --- Religion-History. --- Europe-History-476-1492. --- Italy-History. --- History of Religion. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- History of Italy. --- Religion—History. --- Europe—History—476-1492. --- Italy—History. --- To 1500 --- Italy --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500 --- Christian saints - Italy - Ravenna - To 1500 --- Barbatianus presb. Ravennae --- Ravenna --- Probus ep. Ravennae
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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
Christianity and other religions --- Paganism --- 27 "03/07" --- Civilization, Pagan --- Heathenism --- Religions --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- 27 "03/07" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"03/07" --- 27 "03/07" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03/07" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--?"03/07" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03/07" --- Roman --- Relations --- History --- Rome --- Religion. --- Christianisme --- --Paganisme --- --Relation --- --Europe --- --IIIe-VIIIe s., --- Christianisme. --- Paganisme. --- Relations. --- Religion --- Europe --- Paganisme --- Relation --- IIIe-VIIIe s., 201-800 --- Paganisme et christianisme
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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.
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