A Memory of Violence
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A Memory of Violence

Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity

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A Memory of Violence

Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity

About this book

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.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Subvention
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Notes on Translation and Transliteration
  10. Chronology of Key Dates
  11. List of Key Figures
  12. Maps
  13. Introduction: An Imperial Church in Turmoil
  14. 1. Historical Foundations: Social Networks and Regional Diversity
  15. 2. Genealogies of Orthodoxy: Remembering the Saints
  16. 3. Genealogies of Heresy: Remembering Nestorius and Chalcedon
  17. 4. Victims of Violence: Narratives of Suffering and Persecution
  18. 5. Suffering Now or Later: Prophecy and the Final Judgment
  19. 6. Ritual Flash Points: Performing Radical Difference
  20. 7. Give It Up for God: John of Ephesus and the Later Sixth Century
  21. Apocalypse Now: Christian Identity and the Rise of Islam
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index