Kate Cooper / Julia Hillner (eds.)

Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300-900

Herausgeber: Cooper, Kate; Hillner, Julia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traces the central role played by aristocratic patronage in the transformation of the city of Rome at the end of antiquity. It moves away from privileging the administrative and institutional developments related to the rise of papal authority as the paramount theme in the city's post-classical history. Instead the focus shifts to the networks of reciprocity between patrons and their dependents. Using material culture and social theory to challenge traditional readings of the textual sources, the volume undermines the teleological picture of ecclesiastical sources such as the Liber Pontificalis, and presents the lay, clerical, and ascetic populations of the city of Rome at the end of antiquity as interacting in a fluid environment of alliance-building and status negotiation. By focusing on the city whose aristocracy is the best-documented of any ancient population, the volume makes an important contribution to understanding the role played by elites across the end of antiquity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780521876414
• ISBN-10: 0521876419
• Artikelnr.: 22713381

Autorenporträt

Kate Cooper is Senior Lecturer in Early Christianity and Director of the Centre for Late Antiquity at the University of Manchester.
Julia Hillner is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History and the Centre for Late Antiquity at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Kate Cooper and Julia Hillner; Part I. Icons of Authority:
Pope and Emperor: 1. From Emperor to Pope? Ceremonial, space, and authority
at Rome from Constantine to Gregory the Great Mark Humphries; 2. Memory and
authority in sixth century Rome: the Liber Pontificalis and the Collectio
Avellana Kate Blair-Dixon; Part II. Lay, Clerical, and Ascetic Contexts for
the Roman GESTA MARTYRUM: 3. Domestic conversions: households and bishops
in the late antique 'Papal legends' Kristina Sessa; 4. Agnes and
Constantia: domesticity and cult patronage in the Passion of Agnes Hannah
Jones; 5. 'A church in the house of the saints': property and power in the
Passion of John and Paul Conrad Leyser; Part III. Religion, Dynasty, and
Patronage: 6. Poverty, obligation, and inheritance: Roman heiresses and the
varieties of senatorial Christianity in fifth-century Rome Kate Cooper; 7.
Demetrias ancilla dei: Anicia Demetrias and the problem of the missing
patron Anne Kurdock; 8. Families, patronage and the titular churches of
Rome, c.300-c.600 Julia Hillner; 9. To be the neighbour of St Stephen:
patronage, martyr cult, and Roman monasteries, c.600-c.900 Marios
Costambeys and Conrad Leyser.