The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium : Views from the Wider Mediterranean World in Conversation

Weitere Verfasser: Forness, Philip Michael , [HerausgeberIn] , [http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt]
Hasse-Ungeheuer, Alexandra, 1982- , [HerausgeberIn] , [http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt]
Leppin, Hartmut , [HerausgeberIn] , [http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021].
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (íx, 464 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Millennium-Studien 92
ISBN: 9783110725612
DOI: 10.1515/9783110725612
Schlagworte:
Christentum
Herrscher
Spätantike
RELIGION / Christianity / History.
Christianity.
Cultural exchange.
Late antique world.
Monarchy.
Parallelausgabe: ISSN: 9783110725650
ISSN: 9783110724691
Online-Zugang: open access
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on Good Christian Rulership
  • A. The Good Christian Ruler in the Roman Empire
  • Finding a Common Cause: Fourth-Century Greek Discourses on Rulership
  • The Good Sinful Ruler: Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius I
  • The Emperor's Two Cities: Augustine's Image of the Good Christian Ruler in De civitate Dei 5.24
  • Pious and Impious Christian Rulers According to Egyptian Historiography and Hagiography: A First Survey of the Evidence
  • Faithful Rulers and Theological Deviance: Ephrem the Syrian and Jacob of Serugh on the Roman Emperor
  • B. The Good Christian Ruler between Persia and Rome
  • Images of the Good Ruler in Sasanian Iran: An Emic View
  • Representations of Rulership in Late Antique Armenia
  • The Depiction of the Arsacid Dynasty in Medieval Armenian Historiography
  • Vakhtang I Gorgasali (r. 447-522) as a Christian Monarch in Georgia: His Depiction in the Life of Kartli
  • The Creation of a "Pious" Image of King Vačʽagan II (r. c. 485-523) of Caucasian Albania in the Tale of Vačʽagan (Early Sixth Century)
  • Concerning Four Kings From the Land of 'Deep Ravines, Dense Forests and Dark Thickets'
  • C. The Good Christian Ruler in Post‐Roman Traditions
  • The Good Ruler from a Papal Perspective: Continuities and Discontinuities in Papal Letters from the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
  • The Image of the Christian Ruler in the Catholic Monarchy of Visigothic Spain: Julian of Toledo's Historia Wambae
  • Goodness and Cruelty: The Image of the Ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire in the Period of Christianisation (Ninth Century)
  • A Christian King in Africa: The Image of Christian Nubian Rulers in Internal and External Sources
  • D. The Good Ruler under Islamic Rule
  • Justice and Good Administration in Medieval Islam: The Book of the Pearl of the Ruler by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (860-940)
  • Images of Emperors and Emirs in Early Islamic Egypt
  • Shaping the Good Christian King under Muslim Rule: Constantine and the Torah in the Melkite Arabic Chronicle of Agapius of Mabbug (Tenth Century)
  • Index of Persons and Places
  • Subject Index

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