Violence in late antiquity : perceptions and practices

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Violence in late antiquity : perceptions and practices

edited by H.A. Drake ; co-editors, Emily Albu ... [et al.] ; editorial assistant Jacob Latham

Ashgate, c2006

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Based on papers presented at the fifth biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, held at the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, in March 20-23, 2003

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-389) and index

Contents of Works

  • Gauging violence in late antiquity / H.A. Drake
  • Perceptions of barbarian violence / Walter Pohl
  • Violent behavior and the construction of barbarian identity in late antiquity / Ralph W. Mathisen
  • Violence in the barbarian successor kingdoms / Wolf Liebeschuetz
  • Justifiably outraged or simply outrageous? : the Isaurian incident of Ammianus Marcellinus 14.2 / Linda Honey
  • The inn as a place of violence and danger in rabbinic literature / Tziona Grossmark
  • A question of faith? : persecution and political centralization in the Sasanian Empire of Yazdgard II (438-457 CE) / S.J. McDonough
  • Violence, victims, and the legal tradition in late antiquity / Jill Harries
  • Violence in the process of arrest and imprisonment late antique Egypt / Sofía Torallas Tovar
  • Coercion, resistance and "the command economy" in late Roman Aperlae / Bill Leadbetter
  • Making late Roman taxpayers pay : imperial government strategies and practice / Hartmut Ziche
  • Desires of the hangman : Augustine on legitimized violence / Gillian Clark
  • Violence, purification, and mercy in the late antique afterlife / Isabel Moreira
  • Exiled bishops in the Christian empire : victims of imperial violence? / Eric Fournier
  • Reasoned violence and shifty frontiers : shared victory in the late Roman East / Thomas Sizgorich
  • Bad boys : circumcellions and fictive violence / Brent D. Shaw
  • Teaching violence in the schools of rhetoric / Janet B. Davis
  • Doing violence to the image of an empress : the destruction of Eudoxia's reputation / Wendy Meyer
  • The Thessalonian affair in the fifth-century histories / Daniel Washburn
  • "Kill all the dogs!" or "Apollonius says!" : two stories against punitive violence / Jacqueline Long
  • Epiphanius of Cyprus and the geography of heresy / Young Kim
  • Cyclic violence and the poetics of negotiation in pre-Islamic Arabia / Clarissa Burt
  • Rethinking pagan-Christian violence / Michele Renee Salzman
  • Bookburning in the Christian Roman Empire : transforming a pagan rite of purification / Daniel Sarefield
  • Christianizing the rural communities of late Roman Africa : a process of coercion or persuasion? / David Riggs
  • Hellenic heritage and Christian challenge : conflict over Panhellenic sanctuaries in late antiquity / Amelia Robertson Brown
  • Embodied Theologies :Christian identity and Violence in Alexandria in the early Arian controversy / Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho
  • The murder of Hypatia : acceptable or unacceptable violence? / Edward Watts
  • Violence in late antiquity reconsidered / Martin Zimmermann

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