By Susanna Elm

This groundbreaking examine brings into discussion for the 1st time the writings of Julian, the final non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his such a lot outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a valuable determine of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares those males to not draw out the most obvious distinction among the Church and the Emperor’s neo-Paganism, yet quite to discover their universal highbrow and social grounding. Her insightful research, supplemented by way of her magisterial command of assets, demonstrates the ways that either males have been a part of an analogous dialectical entire. Elm recasts either Julian and Gregory as males fullyyt in their instances, exhibiting how the Roman Empire in truth supplied Christianity with the ideological and social matrix with no which its sturdiness and dynamism may were inconceivable.

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Rosen’s last chapter in Julian discusses Julian’s reception in the West until the present. Julian’s reception in the Byzantine and Russian East remains a desideratum (though Rosen mentions V. Mayakovsky). 6. S. ” 7. See Schmidt-Hofner’s excellent analysis of scholarly approaches to late Roman imperial governance, Reagieren, 80–102. 8. Gr. Naz. Or. 36. 9. Forty-four orations in all rhetorical genres, from apologiae to panegyrics; 249 letters; and about 19, 000 lines of poetry in all meters. 10. S.

Von Arnim. Leipzig 1903–24. VC Eusebius of Caesarea, Life of Constantine [De vita Constantini]: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Ed. and trans. A. Cameron and S. Hall. Oxford 1999. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book began to take shape in the summer of 1998. At the time, I was immersed in research for a project on the relevance of slavery for the formulation of late Roman Christian notions of leadership: that is, for the role of the bishop. Gregory of Nazianzus’s second oration soon emerged as a central source, and I was already working on a number of papers devoted to it when Martin Nettesheim suggested I write instead a short little book on Gregory.

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