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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.
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
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Illinois, Containing A Brief Account Of The English Settlement In
The Latter Territory, And A Refutation Of The Misrepresentations Of
Mr. Cobbett Richard Flower History; United States; State &
Local; South; History / United States / State & Local / South;
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
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.
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The topic of religious identity in late antiquity is highly
contentious. How did individuals and groups come to ascribe
identities based on what would now be known as 'religion',
categorizing themselves and others with regard to Judaism,
Manichaeism, traditional Greek and Roman practices, and numerous
competing conceptions of Christianity? How and why did examples of
self-identification become established, activated, or transformed
in response to circumstances? To what extent do labels (whether
ancient and modern) for religious categories reflect a sense of a
unified and enduring social or group identity for those included
within them? How does religious identity relate to other forms of
ancient identity politics (for example, ethnic discourse concerning
'barbarians')? Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity
responds to the recent upsurge of interest in this issue by
developing interdisciplinary research between classics, ancient and
medieval history, philosophy, religion, patristics, and Byzantine
studies, expanding the range of evidence standardly used to explore
these questions. In exploring the malleability and potential
overlapping of religious identities in late antiquity, as well as
their variable expressions in response to different public and
private contexts, it challenges some prominent scholarly paradigms.
In particular, rhetoric and religious identity are here brought
together and simultaneously interrogated to provide mutual
illumination: in what way does a better understanding of rhetoric
(its rules, forms, practices) enrich our understanding of the
expression of late-antique religious identity? How does an
understanding of how religious identity was ascribed, constructed,
and contested provide us with a new perspective on rhetoric at work
in late antiquity?
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.
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.
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