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Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing

Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing

Rebillard, Eric
Mills, Kenneth
Grafton-Left Princeton 2008, Anthony T.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Comparative History, Book 4

Religion General Christian Living

ISBN10: 1580461255
ISBN13: 9781580461252
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: Sep 28 2003
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
A re-examination of the social processes behind religious conversions in the Ancient and Early Middle Ages.

This volume explores religious conversion in late antique and early medieval Europe at a time when the utility of the concept is vigorously debated. Though conversion was commonly represented by ancient and early medieval writersas singular and personally momentous mental events, contributors to this volume find gradual and incomplete social processes lurking behind their words. A mixture of examples and approaches will both encourage a deepening of specialist knowledge and spark new thinking across a variety of sub-fields. The historical settings treated here stretch from the Roman Hellenism of Justin Martyr in the second century to the ninth-century programs of religious and moral correction by resourceful Carolingian reformers. Baptismal orations, funerary inscriptions, Christian narratives about the conversion of stage-performers, a bronze statue of Constantine, early Byzantine ethnographic writings, and re-located relics are among the book's imaginative points of entry. This focused collection of essays by leading scholars, and the afterword by Neil McLynn, should ignite conversations among students of religious conversion andrelated processes of cultural interaction, diffusion, and change both in the historical sub-fields of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and well beyond.

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