Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire
Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire
This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if `paganism' had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, `Christianity' came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, `pagans' and `Christians' lived `in between' polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies.
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This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if `paganism' had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, `Christianity' came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, `pagans' and `Christians' lived `in between' polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies.
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