Kendra Eshleman

The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores how social networks shaped the identity of sophists, philosophers, and Christians in the early Roman Empire. Taking a sociological focus, this book redresses a bias toward intellectual concerns, enriches understanding of the Second Sophistic and reframes the formation of Christian 'orthodoxy'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781107624412
• ISBN-10: 110762441X
• Artikelnr.: 60094267

Autorenporträt

Kendra Eshleman is an Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Boston College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Inclusion and identity
2. Contesting competence: the ideal of self-determination
3. Expertise and authority in the early church
4. Defining the circle of sophists: Philostratus and the construction of the Second Sophistic
5. Becoming orthodox: heresiology as self-fashioning
6. Successions and self-definition
7. 'From such mothers and fathers': succession narratives in early Christian discourse.