Empire to Commonwealth (eBook)

Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity

Garth Fowden (Autor)

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2020
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4424-1 (ISBN)

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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 "e;world empires."e; But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the looser, more pluralistic commonwealths of Eastern Christendom and Islam. With rare breadth of vision, Fowden traces this transition from empire to commonwealth, and in the process exposes the sources of major cultural contours that still play a determining role in Europe and southwest Asia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 10 plates
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Schlagworte: abbasid caliphate • Abbasids • Ahura Mazda • Ammianus Marcellinus • Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius • Arabia, southern • arabs • Armenians • Asia Minor • Axum • Baghdad • Bardaisan • Buddhism • Byzantine Commonwealth • Byzantine Empire • Byzantium • Caliphate • Cappadocia • Caracalla • Christianity • Christianity and Islam • Christianity in Iran • christianization • Christian universalism • Cilicia • Commonwealth • Constantine the Great • Constantine the Great and Christianity • Constantinople • Ctesiphon • cyrus the great • deity • Dhu Nuwas • Dinar • diocletian • Diocletian, Roman emperor • Early Muslim conquests • Eastern Christianity • Eastern Europe • Eastern Mediterranean • Edessa • Ethiopia • fall of the western roman empire • Fertile Crescent • Ghassanid Arabs • God • Goths • Greeks • Hagarism • Hellenistic period • Henotheism • Heresy • Himyar • Himyarite Kingdom • Iberia (Eastern Georgia) • Imperial cult (ancient Rome) • imperialism • Indian Ocean • Iranian Peoples • Iranian Plateau • Islam • Islamic Empire • Jerusalem • Jews • Judaism • Julian, Roman emperor • Kebra Nagast • Khusrau I, Sasanian emperor • Kingship and kingdom of God • Kushan Empire • Late Antiquity • Libanius • Life of Constantine • Manichaeism • Mazdaism • Mediterranean basin • Middle Ages • Missionary • Mithraism • Monarchy • Monophysitism • Monotheism • Multiculturalism • Muslim world • Najran • Nestorianism • Oleg Grabar • Omnipotence • Orthodoxy • Ottomans • Paganism • Parthian Empire • pentarchy • Persecution • Philip Sherrard • Philostorgius • Polytheism • Ptolemaic Kingdom • Quran • Religion • religious text • Roman Empire • Romano-Iranian relations • sasanian empire • Septimius Severus • Shapur I • Shapur II • Solidus (coin) • Spain • State Religion • The Goths • Theodosius I • Theology • Theophylact Simocatta • title • Umayyad Caliphate • Umayyads • Universalism • Western Asia • Western Christianity • World Government • Zarathushtra • Zoroaster • Zoroastrianism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4424-X / 140084424X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4424-1 / 9781400844241