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The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome (Hardcover)
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The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome (Hardcover)
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In The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome, Nicola Denzey
Lewis challenges the common understanding of late antique
Christianity as dominated by the Cult of Saints. Popularized by
historian Peter Brown, the Cult of the Saints presupposes that a
'corporeal turn' in the 4th century CE initiated a new sense of the
body (even the corpse or bone) as holy. Denzey Lewis argues that
although present elsewhere in the late Roman Empire, no such
'corporeal turn' happened in Rome until the early modern period.
The prevailing assumption that it did was fostered by the
apologetic concerns of early modern Catholic scholars, as well as
contemporary attitudes towards death, antiquity, and the survival
of the Church against secularism. Denzey Lewis delves deeply into
the world of Roman late antique Christianity, exploring how and why
it differed from the set of practices and beliefs we have come to
think flourished in this crucial age of Christianization.
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