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Crisis of Empire
TRANSFORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE
Peter Brown, General Editor
| I. | Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity, by Sabine G. MacCormack | |
| II. | Synesius of Cyrene: Philosopher-Bishop, by Jay Alan Bregman | |
| III. | Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity, by Kenneth G. Holum | |
| IV. | John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late Fourth Century, by Robert L. Wilken | |
| V. | Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man, by Patricia Cox | |
| VI. | Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, by Philip Rousseau | |
| VII. | Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by A. P. Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein | |
| VIII. | Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul, by Raymond Van Dam | |
| IX. | Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition, by Robert Lamberton | |
| X. | Procopius and the Sixth Century, by Averil Cameron | |
| XI. | Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity, by Robert A. Kaster | |
| XII. | Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180–275, by Kenneth Harl | |
| XIII. | Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, introduced and translated by Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey | |
| XIV. | Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection, by Carole Straw | |
| XV. | “Apex Omnium”: Religion in the “Res gestae” of Ammianus, by R. L. Rike | |
| XVI. | Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World, by Leslie S. B. MacCoull | |
| XVII. | On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity, by Michele Renee Salzman | |
| XVIII. | Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and “The Lives of the Eastern Saints,” by Susan Ashbrook Harvey | |
| XIX. | Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, by Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long, with a contribution by Lee Sherry | |
| XX. | Basil of Caesarea, by Philip Rousseau | |
| XXI. | In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini, introduction, translation, and historical commentary by C. E. V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers | |
| XXII. | Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital, by Neil B. McLynn | |
| XXIII. | Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity, by Richard Lim | |
| XXIV. | The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy, by Virginia Burrus | |
| XXV. | Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius’s “Life” and the Late Antique City, by Derek Krueger | |
| XXVI. | The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine, by Sabine MacCormack | |
| XXVII. | Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems, by Dennis E. Trout | |
| XXVIII. | The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran, by Elizabeth Key Fowden | |
| XXIX. | The Private Orations of Themistius, translated, annotated, and introduced by Robert J. Penella | |
| XXX. | The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity, by Georgia Frank | |
| XXXI. | Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity, edited by Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau | |
| XXXII. | Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium, by Glenn Peers | |
| XXXIII. | Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity, by Daniel Caner | |
| XXXIV. | Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D., by Noel Lenski | |
| XXXV. | Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages, by Bonnie Effros | |
| XXXVI. | Quṣayr ‘Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria, by Garth Fowden | |
| XXXVII. | Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition, by Claudia Rapp | |
| XXXVIII. | Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity, by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony | |
| XXXIX. | There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire, by Michael Gaddis | |
| XL. | The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq, by Joel Thomas Walker | |
| XLI. | City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria, by Edward J. Watts | |
| XLII. | Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination, by Susan Ashbrook Harvey | |
| XLIII. | Man and the Word: The Orations of Himerius, edited by Robert J. Penella | |
| XLIV. | The Matter of the Gods, by Clifford Ando | |
| XLV. | The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran, by Matthew P. Canepa | |
| XLVI. | Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities, by Edward J. Watts | |
| XLVII. | Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa, by Leslie Dossey | |
| XLVIII. | Theodoret’s People: Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman Syria, by Adam M. Schor | |
| XLIX. | Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome, by Susanna Elm | |
| L. | Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty: Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt, by Ariel G. López | |
| LI. | Doctrine and Power: Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire, by Carlos R. Galvão-Sobrinho | |
| LII. | Crisis of Empire: Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity, by Phil Booth |
Crisis of Empire
Doctrine and Dissent at the End
of Late Antiquity
Phil Booth
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Booth, Phil.
Crisis of empire : doctrine and dissent at the end of late antiquity / Phil Booth.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-520-28042-7 (cloth, alk. paper)
eISBN 978-0-520-95658-2
1. Church history—7th century.2. Moschus, John, approximately 550–619.3. Sophronius, Saint, Patriarch of Jerusalem, approximately 560–approximately 638.4. Maximus, Confessor, Saint, approximately 580–662.I. Title.
BR162.3.B662013
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