The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium : : Views from the Wider Mediterranean World in Conversation.

• Superior document: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies ; v.92
• Author: Forness, Philip Michael.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hasse-Ungeheuer, Alexandra.; Leppin, Hartmut.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (474 pages)

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Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on Good Christian Rulership -- A. The Good Christian Ruler in the Roman Empire -- Finding a Common Cause: Fourth-Century Greek Discourses on Rulership -- The Good Sinful Ruler: Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius I -- The Emperor's Two Cities: Augustine's Image of the Good Christian Ruler in De civitate Dei 5.24 -- Pious and Impious Christian Rulers According to Egyptian Historiography and Hagiography: A First Survey of the Evidence -- Faithful Rulers and Theological Deviance: Ephrem the Syrian and Jacob of Serugh on the Roman Emperor -- B. The Good Christian Ruler between Persia and Rome -- Images of the Good Ruler in Sasanian Iran: An Emic View -- Representations of Rulership in Late Antique Armenia -- The Depiction of the Arsacid Dynasty in Medieval Armenian Historiography -- Vakhtang I Gorgasali (r. 447-522) as a Christian Monarch in Georgia: His Depiction in the Life of Kartli -- The Creation of a "Pious" Image of King Vačʽagan II (r. c. 485-523) of Caucasian Albania in the Tale of Vačʽagan (Early Sixth Century) -- Concerning Four Kings From the Land of 'Deep Ravines, Dense Forests and Dark Thickets' -- C. The Good Christian Ruler in Post‐Roman Traditions -- The Good Ruler from a Papal Perspective: Continuities and Discontinuities in Papal Letters from the Fourth to Eighth Centuries -- The Image of the Christian Ruler in the Catholic Monarchy of Visigothic Spain: Julian of Toledo's Historia Wambae -- Goodness and Cruelty: The Image of the Ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire in the Period of Christianisation (Ninth Century) -- A Christian King in Africa: The Image of Christian Nubian Rulers in Internal and External Sources -- D. The Good Ruler under Islamic Rule -- Justice and Good Administration in Medieval Islam: The Book of the Pearl of the Ruler by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (860-940).

Images of Emperors and Emirs in Early Islamic Egypt -- Shaping the Good Christian King under Muslim Rule: Constantine and the Torah in the Melkite Arabic Chronicle of Agapius of Mabbug (Tenth Century) -- Index of Persons and Places -- Subject Index.