Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse
(Part of the Sather Classical Lectures Series)
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Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil Cameron turns to the development of Christian discourse over the first to sixth centuries A.D., investigating the discourse's essential characteristics, its effects on existing forms of communication, and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520089235
ISBN13:9780520089235
Release Date:December 1994
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:275 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"
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