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The Roman emperor Constantius II (337-361) has frequently been
maligned as a heretic, standing in sharp contrast to his father
Constantine I, who set in motion the Christianisation of the Roman
world and the establishment of Nicene orthodoxy. This reputation is
the result of the overwhelmingly negative presentation of
Constantius in the surviving literature written by orthodox
Christians, who regarded him as an 'Arian' persecutor. This volume
presents new translations of texts that were central to the shaping
of this hostile legacy: Athanasius of Alexandria's History of the
Arians, Hilary of Poitiers' Against Constantius and Lucifer of
Cagliari's The Necessity of Dying for the Son of God. These
contemporary invectives against the emperor were composed by three
bishops who all opposed Constantius' religious policies and were
exiled by the imperial and ecclesiastical authorities during the
350s. By constructing polemical accounts of their sufferings at the
hands of the emperor and his supporters, these authors drew on the
traditions of both classical rhetoric and Christian persecution
literature in order to cast Constantius as imitating villains such
as Ahab, Judas and Nero, while presenting themselves as fearless
opponents of impious tyranny. Moreover, as the earliest surviving
invectives against a living Roman emperor, the writings of these
three bishops offer a unique opportunity to understand the place of
polemical literature in the political culture of the later Roman
empire. The translations are accompanied by a substantial
introduction and notes which provide a clear guide to the
historical and theological context of the period, as well as
literary analysis of the texts themselves. This volume will
therefore be valuable both to those studying the religious and
political history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and
also to anyone interested in the development of Roman rhetoric and
early Christian literature.
The Roman emperor Constantius II (337-361) has frequently been
maligned as a heretic, standing in sharp contrast to his father
Constantine I, who set in motion the Christianisation of the Roman
world and the establishment of Nicene orthodoxy. This reputation is
the result of the overwhelmingly negative presentation of
Constantius in the surviving literature written by orthodox
Christians, who regarded him as an 'Arian' persecutor. This volume
presents new translations of texts that were central to the shaping
of this hostile legacy: Athanasius of Alexandria's History of the
Arians, Hilary of Poitiers' Against Constantius and Lucifer of
Cagliari's The Necessity of Dying for the Son of God. These
contemporary invectives against the emperor were composed by three
bishops who all opposed Constantius' religious policies and were
exiled by the imperial and ecclesiastical authorities during the
350s. By constructing polemical accounts of their sufferings at the
hands of the emperor and his supporters, these authors drew on the
traditions of both classical rhetoric and Christian persecution
literature in order to cast Constantius as imitating villains such
as Ahab, Judas and Nero, while presenting themselves as fearless
opponents of impious tyranny. Moreover, as the earliest surviving
invectives against a living Roman emperor, the writings of these
three bishops offer a unique opportunity to understand the place of
polemical literature in the political culture of the later Roman
empire. The translations are accompanied by a substantial
introduction and notes which provide a clear guide to the
historical and theological context of the period, as well as
literary analysis of the texts themselves. This volume will
therefore be valuable both to those studying the religious and
political history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and
also to anyone interested in the development of Roman rhetoric and
early Christian literature.
Unclassical Traditions. Volume II: Perspectives from East and West
in Late Antiquity is the second of two collections of essays by
leading scholars discussing the nature and extent of the
late-antique engagement with the classical past. Rather than
concentrating on developments at the centre of empire (the focus of
a previous volume, Unclassical Traditions I ), the aim here is to
present a set of views from the margins: social, political,
religious, literary, geographical and linguistic. Ranging from
Armenian ecclesiastical histories, Egyptian alchemy and Jewish
power politics, across the Mediterranean to the challenges raised
by shifting circumstances in 5th-century North Africa and
Ostrogothic Italy, the eight papers in this volume seek to
establish the persistent importance of the classical tradition
throughout a broadly defined late antiquity. Despite the divergent
forms taken by these various responses, they are united by a common
preoccupation with that still authoritative past. From these
eastern and western perspectives - often peripheral and sometimes
isolated - the classical past appears neither monolithic nor
inflexible but as offering a set of assumptions or conventions that
might be opposed or accepted, subverted or ignored or reworked into
a striking variety of newly imagined worlds. Like its predecessor,
this volume will be of interest to anyone concerned with the
history, literature and culture of the later Roman empire. It stems
from an international conference held in Cambridge in 2009,
generously supported by the Faculty of Classics and the Henry
Arthur Thomas Fund.
This innovative study illuminates the role of polemical literature
in the political life of the Roman empire by examining the earliest
surviving invectives directed against a living emperor. Written by
three bishops (Athanasius of Alexandria, Hilary of Poitiers,
Lucifer of Cagliari), these texts attacked Constantius II (337-61)
for his vicious and tyrannical behaviour, as well as his heretical
religious beliefs. This book explores the strategies employed by
these authors to present themselves as fearless champions of
liberty and guardians of faith, as they sought to bolster their
authority at a time when they were out of step with the prevailing
imperial view of Christian orthodoxy. Furthermore, by analysing
this unique collection of writings alongside late antique
panegyrics and ceremonial, it also rehabilitates anti-imperial
polemic as a serious political activity and explores the ways in
which it functioned within the complex web of presentations and
perceptions that underpinned late Roman power relationships.
Title: Letters from the Illinois, 1820, 1821: containing an account
of the English settlement at Albion and its vicinity and a
refutation of various misrepresentations, those more particularly
of Mr. Cobbett.Author: Richard FlowerPublisher: Gale, Sabin
Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04611100CollectionID:
CTRG03-B1169PublicationDate: 18220101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Two letters were published previously in issues of
the Monthly repository--cf. Pref.Collation: xi, 9]-76 p
Title: Letters from the Illinois, 1820, 1821. Containing an account
of the English settlement at Albion and its vicinity, and a
refutation of various misrepresentations, those more particularly
of Mr. Cobbett; with a letter from M. Birkbeck; and a preface and
notes by B. Flower.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
HISTORY OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA collection includes books from
the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection refers
to the European settlements in North America through independence,
with emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain.
Attention is paid to the histories of Jamestown and the early
colonial interactions with Native Americans. The contextual
framework of this collection highlights 16th century English,
Scottish, French, Spanish, and Dutch expansion. ++++The below data
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British Library Flower, Richard; Birkbeck, Morris; 1822. 8 .
1052.e.10.
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Containing An Account Of The English Settlement At Albion And Its
Vicinity, And A Refutation Of Various Misrepresentations, Those
More Particularly Of Mr. Cobbett.
Containing An Account Of The English Settlement At Albion And Its
Vicinity, And A Refutation Of Various Misrepresentations, Those
More Particularly Of Mr. Cobbett.
Unclassical Traditions: Alternatives to the Classical Past in Late
Antiquity is the first of two collections of essays by leading
scholars discussing the nature and extent of the late-antique
engagement with its classical heritage. This issue has long been at
the heart of modern historical debate and, as this volume
demonstrates, it was no less a matter of concern among authors and
audiences in the period itself. From the Chronological Tables of
Eusebius of Caesarea to the Brevarium of Festus and from the
imperial panegyric to the Byzantine liturgy, eight papers explore
how the persistence, dominance and normative nature of the
classical tradition in its various forms could be negotiated,
undermined, ironised or even flatly denied. Whether in the hands of
Christian bishops such as Ambrose of Milan or Basil of Caesarea, or
in the poetry of Ausonius or in the lives of the saints, many
central aspects of late-antique culture here emerge as the product
of a combination of authoritatively classical and avowedly
unclassical traditions.
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