Patristic Scholarship and Religious Contention, 1678–1716

Lactantius’s treatise De mortibus persecutorum, which celebrates the end of the persecutions of Christians in the Roman empire, was lost for six centuries. Its discovery in 1678 was a European event which set the sophisticated machinery of information exchange in the republic of letters in motion. S...

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Main Author: Touber, Jetze (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Church history and religious culture
Year: 2016, Volume: 96, Issue: 3, Pages: 266-303
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Cuper, Gisbert 1644-1716 / Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus 250-317, De mortibus persecutorum / Publication
B Research
RelBib Classification:KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
Further subjects:B Republic of Letters Patristics scholarship antiquarianism idolatry religious persecution Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (± 250-± 320) Gijsbert Cuper (1644–1716)
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