Early Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourses: Coping with Crises in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries - Couverture rigide

Strickler, Ryan W.

 
9789004745858: Early Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourses: Coping with Crises in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004745858 ISBN 13 : 9789004745858
Editeur : Brill, 2025

Synopsis

The Byzantine Empire faced many threats, but few were as great as the events of the sixth and seventh centuries, when paranoia, plagues, and wars threatened to tear the empire apart. Like today, prophets predicted horrors to come while preachers called on their congregations to repent. This book considers how the Byzantines understood the crises of the period and their role in divine history by reframing their troubles through an apocalyptic lens. While most scholars have interpreted these messages as a prediction of the end, this book argues for a different reading, understanding them instead as messages of hope.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ryan W. Strickler, Ph.D. (2019), Macquarie University, is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Newcastle (Australia). He studies identity formation and crisis response in the late Roman and Byzantine world, and recently co-edited Dissidence and Persecution in Byzantium: From Constantine to Michael Psellos (Brill, 2022).

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004745858
ISBN 13 
9789004745858
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
236
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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