1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452396403321

Autore

Van Dam Raymond

Titolo

Becoming Christian [[electronic resource] ] : the conversion of Roman Cappadocia / / Raymond Van Dam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003

ISBN

1-283-89812-8

0-8122-0737-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

275.6402

Soggetti

Christianity and culture - Turkey - Cappadocia - History

Electronic books.

Cappadocia (Turkey) Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Orthodoxy and Heresy -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "The Evil in Our Bosom": Eunomius as a Cappadocian Father -- Conversion -- Introduction -- Chapter 2. "Even Though Roman Laws Judge Differently": Christianity and Local Traditions -- Chapter 3. Remembering the Future: Christian Narratives of Conversion -- Chapter 4. "Everything in Ruins": Ancient Legends and Foundation Myths -- Chapter 5. The Founder of the Cappadocians -- Preachers and Audiences -- Introduction -- Chapter 6. Listening to the Audience: The Six Days of Creation -- Chapter 7. Small Details: The Cult of the Forty Martyrs -- The Life to Come -- Introduction -- Chapter 8. "I Saw a Parrot": Philostorgius at Constantinople -- Chapter 9. A Blank Sheet of Paper: The Apocryphal Basil -- Chapter 10. "Trail of Sorrows": The Autobiographies of Gregory of Nazianzus -- Epilogue: A Different Late Antiquity -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Editions and Translations -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In a richly textured investigation of the transformation of Cappadocia during the fourth century, Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia examines the local impact of Christianity on traditional Greek and Roman society. The Cappadocians Basil of



Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Eunomius of Cyzicus were influential participants in intense arguments over doctrinal orthodoxy and heresy. In his discussion of these prominent churchmen Raymond Van Dam explores the new options that theological controversies now made available for enhancing personal prestige and acquiring wider reputations throughout the Greek East.Ancient Christianity was more than theology, liturgical practices, moral strictures, or ascetic lifestyles. The coming of Christianity offered families and communities in Cappadocia and Pontus a history built on biblical and ecclesiastical traditions, a history that justified distinctive lifestyles, legitimated the prominence of bishops and clerics, and replaced older myths. Christianity presented a common language of biblical stories and legends about martyrs that allowed educated bishops to communicate with ordinary believers. It provided convincing autobiographies through which people could make sense of the vicissitudes of their lives.The transformation of Roman Cappadocia was a paradigm of the disruptive consequences that accompanied conversion to Christianity in the ancient world. Through vivid accounts of Cappadocians as preachers, theologians, and historians, Becoming Christian highlights the social and cultural repercussions of the formation of new orthodoxies in theology, history, language, and personal identity.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454556503321

Autore

Brewer Mark D.

Titolo

Dynamics of American political parties / / Mark D. Brewer, Jeffrey M. Stonecash [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009

ISBN

0-511-69897-6

1-107-19998-0

0-511-80542-X

0-511-59346-5

0-511-65138-4

0-511-59253-1

0-511-59539-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

324.273

Soggetti

Political parties - United States - History

United States Politics and government 1865-1933

United States Politics and government 20th century

United States Politics and government 2001-2009

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Democracy, representation, and parties -- Overview : social change and shifting party bases -- Taking shape : party coalitions in the post-bellum nineteenth century -- Republican ascendancy and Democratic efforts to respond, 1896-1928 -- Tables turn: the new deal era and Democratic dominance, 1932- 1948 -- The Democratic drive to the great society -- Republicans : reasserting conservative principles and seeking a majority -- The struggle of democrats to interpret change and respond -- George Bush and further polarization -- The 2008 election and its interpretation -- Parties and the pursuit of majorities.

Sommario/riassunto

Dynamics of American Political Parties examines the process of gradual change that inexorably shapes and reshapes American politics. Parties and the politicians that comprise them seek control of government in order to implement their visions of proper public policy. To gain



control parties need to win elections, and winning elections requires assembling an electoral coalition that is larger than that crafted by the opposition. Uncertainty rules and intra-party conflict rages as different factions and groups within the parties debate the proper course(s) of action and battle it out for control of the party. Parties can never be sure how their strategic maneuvers will play out, and, even when it appears that a certain strategy has been successful, party leaders are unclear about how long apparent success will last. Change unfolds slowly, in fits and starts.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910496015603321

Autore

Berry Gautier

Titolo

Impératrices, princesses, aristocrates et saintes souveraines : De l’Orient chrétien et musulman au Moyen Âge et au début des Temps modernes / / Élisabeth Malamut, Andréas Nicolaïdès

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aix-en-Provence, : Presses universitaires de Provence, 2020

ISBN

979-1-03-656145-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Le temps de l’histoire

Altri autori (Persone)

BondouxRené-Claude

DumasJuliette

DurandJannic

GanchouThierry

GréloisJean-Pierre

HerrinJudith

LimousinÉric

MalamutÉlisabeth

Marjanović-DušanićSmilja

NicolaïdèsAndréas

PerdikiOurania

PorterYves

RaptiIoanna

TalbotAlice-Mary

Soggetti

History

aristocratie

aristocratie féminine

Orient méditerranéen

Moyen Âge

époque médiévale

impératrice



princesse

souveraine

étude de genres

femme

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Cet ouvrage est consacré aux souveraines et aux aristocrates de l’Orient méditerranéen à l’époque médiévale. Il s’inscrit dans les recherches actuelles sur l’étude des femmes comme « genre ». La symbolique chrétienne se fonde sur l’iconographie des églises où sont représentées comme modèles les saintes souveraines et martyres des premiers siècles alors que l’historiographie témoigne d’impératrices confrontées au pouvoir, usant de leur beauté et d’artifices, telle Théophano au Xe siècle soupçonnée du meurtre de ses deux premiers époux. On pénètre jusqu’au fond du gynécée là où s’ourdissent les complots, où rivalisent la reine mère et sa belle-fille, là aussi où s’éduquent les enfants impériaux pour lesquels leur mère est appelée à la régence lors de la mort de son époux. Certaines impératrices ont une renommée supérieure à d’autres, telle Zoé représentée sur les mosaïques de Sainte-Sophie à laquelle le peuple de Constantinople voue une réelle ferveur en lui pardonnant ses frasques sexuelles et ses divertissements de magicienne. D’autres impératrices viennent de l’étranger, de Savoie ou de Serbie et elles savent s’imposer dans l’échiquier géopolitique troublé des XIVe et XVe siècles, parfois jusqu’à causer des guerres civiles, toujours en protectrices et conseillères de leurs fils. Léguer l’impérium, voilà qui est étranger aux épouses et filles de souverains ottomans qui n’hésitent pas à contracter des mariages avec des princesses byzantines. Toute l’aristocratie féminine gravite autour de la cour, les princesses rivalisent de piété et de générosité, qu’elles soient byzantines, arméniennes ou timourides, mais aussi de faste. Fortunées, mécènes dans le domaine artistique et religieux, fondatrices, commanditaires de reliquaires et de manuscrits enluminés…la liste de ces dames de la haute société couvre l’Europe, l’Asie occidentale et centrale…