Empire to Commonwealth : : Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity /

Empire to Commonwealth : : Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity / / Garth Fowden.

In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between ort...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Fowden, Garth,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1993
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 10 plates
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on transliteration and references
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The world's two eyes: Iran, Rome, and the pursuit of world empire
  • 2. Polytheist Rome: Toward cultural universalism within empire
  • 3. The Fertile Crescent: Cultural universalism between and beyond empires
  • 4. Constantine: Christian empire and crusade
  • 5. The First Byzantine Commonwealth: Interactions of political and cultural universalism
  • 6. Islam: World empire, then commonwealth
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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