Being Christian in late Antiquity. A festschrift for Gillian Clark / carol Harrison ; Caroline Humfress ; Isabella Sandwell.

What do we mean when we talk about 'being Christian' in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity and Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in honour of the ground-breaking scholarship of Professor Gillian Clark. After an introduction to the volume's dedicatee and themes by Averil Cameron, the papers in Section I, `Being Christian through Reading, Writing and Hearing', analyse the roles that literary genre, writing, reading, hearing and the literature of the past played in the formation of what it meant to be Christian. The essays in Section II move on to explore how late antique Christians sought to create, maintain and represent Christian communities: communities that were both 'textually created' and 'enacted in living realities'. Finally in Section III, 'The Particularities of Being Christian', the contributions examine what it was to be Christian from a number of different ways of representing oneself, each of which raises questions about certain kinds of 'particularities', for example, gender, location, education and culture.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The discourses of Gillian Clark / Averil Cameron -- Why don't Jews write biography? / Simon Goldhill -- The Maccabean mother between pagans, Jews, and Christians / Tessa Rajak -- On the status of books in early Christianity / Guy G. Stroumsa -- An inextinguishable memory: 'pagan' past and presence in early Christian writing / Josef Lössl -- Playing ball: Augustine and Plutarch on capturing wisdom / Carol Harrison -- Fiunt, non nascuntur Christiani: conversion, community, and Christian identity in late antiquity / Andrew Louth -- Julian and the Christian professors / Neil McLynn -- The city of Augustine: on the interpretation of Civitas / Catherine Conybeare -- Christianity and authority in late antiquity: the transformation of the concept of auctoritas / Karla Pollmann -- Church councils and local authority: the development of Gallic libri canonum during late antiquity / Ralph W. Mathisen -- The empresses' tale, AD 300-360 / Jill Harries -- 'Being female': verse commemoration at the Coemeterium S. Agnetis (Via Nomentana) / Dennis Trout -- Self-portrait as a landscape: Ausonius and his herediolum / Oliver Nicholson -- Fashions for Varro in late antiquity and Christian ways with books / Mark Vessey -- The image of a Christian monk in northern Syria: Symeon Stylites the Younger / Fergus Millar.

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