Narrow your search

Library

UCLouvain (3)

KBR (2)

KU Leuven (2)

UGent (2)

ULB (1)

ULiège (1)

UNamur (1)


Resource type

book (3)


Language

English (2)

German (1)


Year
From To Submit

2005 (1)

1981 (1)

1948 (1)

Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by

Book
Three Byzantine saints : contemporary biographies
Authors: ---
Year: 1948 Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell,

Studien zur syntax und bemerkungen zum text der Vita Theodori Syceotae
Author:
ISBN: 9155411428 9789155411428 Year: 1981 Volume: 15 Publisher: Stockholm Almqvist & Wiksell

Holy bishops in Late Antiquity : the nature of Christian leadership in an age of transition
Author:
ISBN: 0520242963 9780520242968 Year: 2005 Volume: 37 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop-as the highest Church official in his city-from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally learned, innovative, and groundbreaking work traces this transition with a twofold aim: to deemphasize the reign of the emperor Constantine, which has traditionally been regarded as a watershed in the development of the Church as an institution, and to bring to the fore the continued importance of the

Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by