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The final pagan generation / / Edward J. Watts



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Autore: Watts Edward Jay <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The final pagan generation / / Edward J. Watts Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (347 p.)
Disciplina: 292.07
Soggetto topico: Paganism - Rome
Christianity and other religions - Rome
Soggetto geografico: Rome Religion
Soggetto non controllato: ancient history
ancient rome
ancient world
christian establishment
christianity
conversion
emperor constantine
emperors
final pagan generation
fourth century history
historical
history of christianity
history
imperial officers
later roman empire
mediterranean history
mobs
pagan practices
pagan sites
pagan temples
political changes
politics
religion
religious changes
religious identities
religious practices
religious studies
religious violence
roman empire
roman history
rome
violent conflict
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Growing Up in the Cities of the Gods -- 2. Education in an Age of Imagination -- 3. The System -- 4. Moving Up in an Age of Uncertainty -- 5. The Apogee -- 6. The New Pannonian Order -- 7. Christian Youth Culture in the 360s and 370s -- 8. Bishops, Bureaucrats, and Aristocrats under Gratian, Valentinian II, and Theodosius -- 9. Old Age in a Young Man's Empire -- 10. A Generation's Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century's dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs attacked pagan holy sites and temples. The emperors who issued these laws, the imperial officials charged with implementing them, and the Christian perpetrators of religious violence were almost exclusively young men whose attitudes and actions contrasted markedly with those of the earlier generation, who shared neither their juniors' interest in creating sharply defined religious identities nor their propensity for violent conflict. Watts examines why the "final pagan generation"-born to the old ways and the old world in which it seemed to everyone that religious practices would continue as they had for the past two thousand years-proved both unable to anticipate the changes that imperially sponsored Christianity produced and unwilling to resist them. A compelling and provocative read, suitable for the general reader as well as students and scholars of the ancient world.
Titolo autorizzato: The final pagan generation  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-37922-5
0-520-95949-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787267203321
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Serie: Transformation of the classical heritage ; ; LIII.