Stasis. Crowd Violence and Religious-Political Discourses in Late Antiquity. (Studien u. Texte zu Antike u. Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity (STAC); Bd. 137).

Stutz, Jonathan:

ISBN 10: 3161626370 / ISBN 13: 9783161626371

Published by Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck,, 2024

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X, 254 S. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass Gewaltepisoden gerade durch ihre mediale Darstellung und Diskursivierung historisch nachwirken, analysiert Jonathan Stutz die vielschichtigen Wechselwirkungen zwischen Rhetorik und Gewalt im frühen Christentum. Bekannte religiöse und politische Konflikte des vierten Jahrhunderts werden dabei mit Blick auf bestimmte rhetorische Praktiken und literarische Gattungen besprochen und neu beleuchtet. ISBN: 9783161626371 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 403.

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• Title: Stasis. Crowd Violence and Religious-Political Discourses in Late Antiquity. (Studien u. Texte zu Antike u. Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity (STAC); Bd. 137).
• Publisher: Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck,
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3161626370
• ISBN 13: 9783161626371
• Binding: Gr.-8°, Brosch.
• Weight: 403 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Building on the premise that episodes of violence also manifest through texts and narratives that originated within specific communicative settings, Jonathan Stutz explores the manifold interconnections between (religious) violence and late antique rhetoric. By focusing the fourth century in particular, he addresses a period of time that was marked by profound political transformations and religious conflicts. The author delves into various examples where manifestations of collective violence became the object of strategies of legitimation and de-legitimation, as well as of moral and theological discourses. Throughout the different chapters, he examines how orations, homilies, letters, and polemical treatises provided a platform for emperors, rhetors, and Christian church leaders in their aim to define their own role and that of their interlocutors within the conflicts they witnessed.