Violence in Late Antiquity

Violence in Late Antiquity

Perceptions and Practices

Drake, H.A.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2006

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Inglês

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Contents: List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Gauging violence in late antiquity, H.A. Drake. Part I Assessing Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions of barbarian violence, Walter Pohl; Violent behavior and the construction of barbarian identity in late antiquity, Ralph Mathisen; Violence in the barbarian successor kingdoms, Wolf Liebeschuetz; Justifiably outraged or simply outrageous? The Isaurian incident of Ammianus Marcellinus 14.2, Linda Honey; The inn as a place of violence and danger in rabbinic literature, Tziona Grossmark; A question of faith? Persecution and political centralization in the Sasanian empire of Yazdgard II (438-457 CE), Scott McDonough. Part II Legitimate Violence: Violence, victims and the legal tradition in late antiquity, Jill Harries; Violence in the process of arrest and imprisonment in late antique Egypt, Sofia Torallas Tovar; Coercion, resistance and 'the command economy' in late Roman Aperlae, Bill Leadbetter; Making late Roman taxpayers pay: imperial government strategies and practice, Hartmut Ziche; Desires of the hangman: Augustine on legitimized violence, Gillian Clark; Violence, purification and mercy in the late antique afterlife, Isabel Moreira; Exiled bishops in the Christian empire: victims of imperial violence?, Eric Fournier; Reasoned violence and shifty frontiers: shared victory in the late Roman East, Thomas Sizgorich. Part III Violence and Rhetoric: Bad boys: circumcellions and fictive violence, Brent D. Shaw; Teaching violence in the schools of rhetoric, Janet Davis; Doing violence to the image of an empress: the destruction of Eudoxias reputation, Wendy Mayer; The Thessalonian affair in the fifth-century histories, Daniel Washburn; 'Kill all the dogs!' or 'Apollonius says!': two stories against punitive violence, Jacqueline Long; Epiphanius of Cyprus and the geography of heresy, Young Kim; Cyclic violence and the poetics of negotiation in pre-Islamic Arabia, Clarissa Burt. Part IV Religious Violence: Rethinking Pagan-Christian violence, Michele Salzman; Bookburning in the Christian Roman empire: Transforming a Pagan rife of purification, Daniel Sarefield; Christianizing the rural communities of late Roman Africa: a process of coercion or persuasion?, David Riggs; Hellenic heritage and Christian challenge: conflict over panhellenic sanctuaries in late antiquity, Amelia Brown; Embodied theologies: Christian identity and violence in Alexandria in the early Arian controversy, Carlos Galvao-Sobrinho; The murder of Hypatia: acceptable or unacceptable violence?, Edward Watts; Conclusion: Violence in late antiquity reconsidered, Martin Zimmermann. Bibliography; Index.
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