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

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

Das spätantike und frühmittelalterliche Mediterraneum war durch eine enorme kulturelle und sprachliche Vielfalt gekennzeichnet. Zugleich schuf das Christentum Verbindungen, die sich unter anderem in gemeinsamen Erzählungen vom Königtum niederschlugen. Diese waren indes auch von weiteren Traditio...

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Otros Autores: Booth, Phil, colaborador (colaborador), Boytsov, Mikhail A., colaborador (editor), Bozoyan, Azat, colaborador, Camplani, Alberto, colaborador, Conterno, Maria, colaborador, Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor, colaborador, Drews, Wolfram, colaborador, Forness, Philip Michael, colaborador, Forness, Philip Michael, editor, Greenwood, Tim, colaborador, Hakobyan, Aleksan, colaborador, Hartmann, Florian, colaborador, Hasse-Ungeheuer, Alexandra, colaborador, Hasse-Ungeheuer, Alexandra, editor, Leppin, Hartmut, colaborador, Leppin, Hartmut, editor, Ochała, Grzegorz, colaborador, Preuß, Kai, colaborador, Reinhold Jeck, Udo, colaborador, Toral-Niehoff, Isabel, colaborador, Wiesehöfer, Josef, colaborador, Ziemann, Daniel, colaborador, Łajtar, Adam, colaborador
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter [2021]
Colección:De Gruyter Open Access ebooks.
Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies ; 92.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45924594*spi
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  • 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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