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100 1 $aBrown, Peter,$d1935-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80020492
245 10 $aAuthority and the sacred :$baspects of the Christianisation of the Roman world /$cPeter Brown.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1995.
263 $a9507
300 $axiii, 91 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tChristianisation: narratives and process --$g2.$tThe limits of intolerance --$g3.$tArbiters of the holy: the Christian holy man in late antiquity.
520 $aThe Christianisation of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe, yet at the time it was a tentative and piecemeal process. Peter Brown's study examines the factors which proved decisive and the compromises which made the emergence of the Christian 'thought world' possible.
520 8 $aHe shows how contemporary narratives wavered between declarations of definitive victory and a sombre sense of the strength of the pre-Christian past, reflecting the hopes and fears of different generations faced with different social and political situations. He examines the social factors which muted the sharp intolerance which pervades the contemporary literary evidence, and he shows how Christian holy men were less representatives of a triumphant and intransigent faith than negotiators, at ground level, of a working compromise between the new faith and traditional ways of dealing with the supernatural world.
520 8 $aHis illuminating analysis of religious change as the art of the possible has a wide relevance for other periods and regions.
650 0 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85025620
651 0 $aRome$xReligion.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009771
852 00 $bglx$hBR170$i.B72 1992
852 00 $bglx$hBR170$i.B72 1992