A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity by Shepardson, Christine

A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520413535)

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A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity by Shepardson, Christine

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

$95.00
A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity by Shepardson, Christine

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

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.


Author: Christine Shepardson
ISBN-10: 0520413539
ISBN-13: 9780520413535
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2025
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover
By Christine Shepardson
By Christine Shepardson
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Christine Shepardson is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is author of Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy and Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem's Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria.

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