Volker L Menze

Gebundenes Buch

Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria

The Last Pharaoh and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire

Beschreibung

This book provides the first full account of Dioscorus as patriarch of Alexandria between 444 and 451 CE. Often historically tarnished as a ruthless 'tyrant-bishop' in the Western Church, Dioscorus is shown rather to be a conflicted reformer against the backdrop of the Later Roman Empire and its political mechanisms for implementing 'Orthodoxy'.

Autor

Volker L. Menze is Associate Professor for Late Antique History at Central European University, particularly working on ecclesiastical history 300-700 CE. His recent publications include an edited volume on Syriac hagiography and articles on church councils, book burnings, bribery, episcopal nepotism, and alternative ecclesiologies in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 163mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780192871336
• ISBN-10: 0192871331
• Artikelnr.: 67479243