Hellenic Religion and Christianization: C. 370-529This work treats the decline of Greek religion and the christianization of town and countryside in the eastern Roman Empire between the death of Julian the Apostate and the laws of Justinian the Great against paganism, c. 370-529. It examines such questions as the effect of the laws against sacrifice and sorcery, temple conversions, the degradation of pagan gods into daimones, the christianization of rite, and the social, political and economic background of conversion to Christianity. Several local contexts are examined in great detail: Gaza, Athens, Alexandria, Aphrodisias, central Asia Minor, northern Syria, the Nile basin, and the province of Arabia. It lays particular emphasis on the criticism of epigraphy, legal evidence, and hagiographic texts, and traces the demographic growth of Christianity and the chronology of this process in selected local contexts. It also seeks to understand the behavioral patterns of conversion. |
Contents
The Legal Status of Sacrifice to 529 | 1 |
Christianization | 98 |
The Priority and Historicity of the Greek | 246 |
Athens and Attica | 283 |
Did John Chrysostom Visit Athens | 333 |
The Closure of the Asklepieion | 342 |
Other editions - View all
Hellenic Religion and Christianization, C. 370-529, Part 2 Frank R. Trombley No preview available - 1993 |
Hellenic Religion and Christianization: C. 370-529, Volume 2 Frank R. Trombley No preview available - 1995 |
Hellenic Religion and Christianization: C. 370-529, Volume 115, Issue 2 Frank R. Trombley No preview available - 1992 |
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