A Memory of Violence : Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity

Shepardson, Christine

University of California Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 332 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520413535
• DDC分類 281.6309

Full Description

Through the fifth and sixth centuries, major divisions rocked Christianity as different factions vied to make their teachings the doctrine of the Roman Empire's imperial church. In the aftermath of the Council of Chalcedon in 451, miaphysite Christians, often targeted as heretics by the imperial church, confronted periodic violence and persecution. In this book, Christine Shepardson reshapes our understanding of late antiquity by centering Syriac Christianity in these complex and politicized doctrinal conflicts. Drawing on critical studies of violence and memory, she traces narratives of resistance and other rhetorical strategies by which miaphysite leaders radicalized their followers to endure physical deprivation and harm rather than abandon their church community.
 

Contents

Contents
 
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Translation and Transliteration
Chronology of Key Dates
List of Key Figures
Maps
 
Introduction: An Imperial Church in Turmoil
1. Historical Foundations: Social Networks and Regional Diversity
2. Genealogies of Orthodoxy: Remembering the Saints
3. Genealogies of Heresy: Remembering Nestorius and Chalcedon
4. Victims of Violence: Narratives of Suffering and Persecution
5. Suffering Now or Later: Prophecy and the Final Judgment
6. Ritual Flash Points: Performing Radical Difference
7. Give It Up for God: John of Ephesus and the Later Sixth Century
 
Bibliography
Index