Education and religion in late antique Christianity: reflections, social contexts and genres
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Education and Religion in Late Antiquity: An Introduction -- PART I Monastic Education -- 1 Early Monasticism and the Rhetorical Tradition: Sayings and Stories as School...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Late Antiquity
/ Christianity
/ Education (motif)
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| Further subjects: | B
Christians
Education
History To 1500
B Education, Ancient B Church and education History To 1500 B Education, Medieval B Conference program B Classical education History To 1500 |
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| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Education and Religion in Late Antiquity: An Introduction -- PART I Monastic Education -- 1 Early Monasticism and the Rhetorical Tradition: Sayings and Stories as School Texts -- 2 The Education of Shenoute and Other Cenobitic Leaders: Inside and Outside of the Monastery -- 3 Teaching the New Classics: Bible and Biography in a Pachomian Monastery -- PART II Gnomic Knowledge -- 4 An Education through Gnomic Wisdom: The Pandect of Antiochus as Bibliotheksersatz 5 Syriac Translations of Plutarch, Lucian and Themistius: A Gnomic Format for an Instructional Purpose? -- 6 Athens and/or Jerusalem? Basil's and Chrysostom's Views on the Didactic Use of Literature and Stories -- PART III Protreptic -- 7 Christian Hagiography and the Rhetorical Tradition: Victricius of Rouen, In Praise of the Saints -- 8 Falsification as a Protreptic to Truth: The Force of the Forged Epistolary Exchange between Basil and Libanius -- 9 Scripture and Liturgy in the Life of Mary of Egypt -- PART IV Secular and Religious Learning 10 How Shall We Plead? The Conference of Carthage (411) on Styles of Argument -- 11 Victor of Vita and Secular Education -- 12 Education in the Syriac World of Late Antiquity -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-210) and index " ... Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the Georg-August-Universität for hosting the workshop in June 2013 during which some of the chapters were first presented" - (acknowledgements) |
| Physical Description: | xii, 216 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1-4724-3476-5 978-1-4724-3476-0 |
