{"product_id":"being-christian-in-late-antiquity-a-festschrift-for-gillian-clark-9780199656035","title":"Being Christian in Late Antiquity: A Festschrift for Gillian Clark","description":"What do we mean when we talk about being Christian in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in honor of the ground-breaking scholarship of Professor Gillian\u003cbr\u003eClark. After an introduction to the volume's dedicatee and themes by Averil Cameron, the papers in Section I, Being Christian through Reading, Writing, and Hearing, analyze the roles that literary genre, writing, reading, hearing, and the literature of the past played in the formation of what it\u003cbr\u003emeant to be Christian. The essays in Section II move on to explore how late antique Christians sought to create, maintain, and represent Christian communities: communities that were both textually created and enacted in living realities. Finally in Section III, The Particularities of Being\u003cbr\u003eChristian, the contributions examine what it was to be Christian from a number of different ways of representing oneself, each of which raises questions about certain kinds of particularities, for example, gender, location, education, and culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing together primary source material from the early Imperial period up to the seventh century AD and covering both the Eastern and Western Empires, the papers in this volume demonstrate that what it meant to be Christian cannot simply be taken for granted. Being Christian was part of a\u003cbr\u003econtinual process of construction and negotiation, as individuals and Christian communities alike sought to relate themselves to existing traditions, social structures, and identities, at the same time as questioning and critiquing the past(s) in their present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol Harrison, Caroline Humfress, Isabella Sandwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.43h x 6.42w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199656035\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarol Harrison \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born and educated in the North East of England and has spent very little time away from this region. She read Theology at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and continued her doctoral research in Oxford and Paris. She taught at Hull University for a year but was soon drawn back to live and work in the shadow of Durham Cathedral. She has taught in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham since 1989 and is currently Professor of the History and Theology of the Latin West. As with the North East, she has spent very little time away from Augustine of Hippo, and has previously published three books on various aspects of his thought with OUP. Her latest book \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Listening in the Early Church\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) represents a departure from Augustine, although she has found it impossible to leave him behind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaroline Humfress\u003c\/strong\u003e (PhD Cantab.) is Reader in History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Before moving to Birkbeck College in 2004, she was Carlyle Research Fellow in the History of Political Thought at the University of Oxford and Assistant Professor of Law and Rhetoric in the Department of Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eOrthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), as well as various edited volumes, essays and articles on legal history and Late Antique religion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIsabella Sandwell \u003c\/strong\u003e(PhD UCL) is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Bristol. She previously held temporary posts at Kings College London and Birbeck College London. She is author of \u003cem\u003eReligious Identity in Late Antiquity: Greeks, Jews and Christians in Antioch\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as a number of other edited volumes, essays and articles on late antique religion and society. She is currently working on late antique preaching and audience reception of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40143906472051,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8b22a94d-b4d8-4545-aed9-adea4ba5f11a.jpg?v=1654608352","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/being-christian-in-late-antiquity-a-festschrift-for-gillian-clark-9780199656035","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}