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Conversion in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages : seeing and believing / edited by Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in comparative historyPublication details: Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, c2003.Description: x, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1580461255 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 248.2/46/09 21
LOC classification:
  • BV4916.3 .C655 2003
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Contents:
Inscriptions and conversions : Gregory of Nazianzus on baptism (Or. 38-40) / Susanna Elm -- The politics of passing : Justin Martyr's conversion as a problem of "Hellenization" / Rebecca Lyman -- Conversion and burial in the late Roman Empire / Eric Rebillard -- Converting the un-Christianizable : the baptism of stage performers in late antiquity / Richard Lim -- The many conversions of the emperor Constantine / Raymond Van Dam -- Delivered from their ancient customs : Christianity and the question of cultural change in early Byzantine ethnography / Michael Maas -- Emending evil ways and praising God's omnipotence : Einhard and the uses of Roman martyrs / Julia M.H. Smith -- Seeing and believing : aspects of conversion from Antoninus Pius to Louis the Pious / Neil McLynn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inscriptions and conversions : Gregory of Nazianzus on baptism (Or. 38-40) / Susanna Elm -- The politics of passing : Justin Martyr's conversion as a problem of "Hellenization" / Rebecca Lyman -- Conversion and burial in the late Roman Empire / Eric Rebillard -- Converting the un-Christianizable : the baptism of stage performers in late antiquity / Richard Lim -- The many conversions of the emperor Constantine / Raymond Van Dam -- Delivered from their ancient customs : Christianity and the question of cultural change in early Byzantine ethnography / Michael Maas -- Emending evil ways and praising God's omnipotence : Einhard and the uses of Roman martyrs / Julia M.H. Smith -- Seeing and believing : aspects of conversion from Antoninus Pius to Louis the Pious / Neil McLynn.

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