5 edition of Julian, philosopher and emperor, and the last struggle of paganism against Christianity found in the catalog.
Published
1978
by AMS Press in New York
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | by Alice Gardner. |
| Genre | Biography. |
| Series | Heroes of the nations. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | DG317 .G33 1978 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xx, 364 p., [21] leaves of plates (3 fold.) : |
| Number of Pages | 364 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL5421061M |
| ISBN 10 | 0404582621 |
| LC Control Number | 73014444 |
Julian, Roman emperor from ad to , nephew of Constantine the Great, and noted scholar and military leader who was proclaimed emperor by his troops. A persistent enemy of Christianity, he publicly announced his conversion to paganism in , thus acquiring the epithet “the Apostate.” Julian. Description of the book "Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World": A history of Julian, the grandson of Constantine, and his failed attempt to reverse the Christian tide that swept the Roman Empire - Portrays the "Apostate" as a poet-philosopher, arguing that had he survived, Christianity would have been checked in its rise - Details reforms enacted by Julian during.
Read Julian Philosopher and Emperor and The Last Struggle of Paganism Against Christianity Books Download As PDF: Julian Philosopher and Emperor and The Last Struggle of Paganism Against Christianity Detail books: Author: Date: Page: Rating: Reviews: 0 Category: Book Reads or Downloads Julian Philosopher and Emperor and The Last. Julian, philosopher and emperor, and the last struggle of paganism against Christianity, (New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons, ), by Alice Gardner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) The Emperor Julian, paganism and Christianity, with genealogical, chronological and bibliographical appendices. Being the Hulsean essay for the year.
The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity does not, despite its subtitle, collude with Gregory of Nazianzus in the making of ‘Julian the Apostate’. Rather, Hans Teitler follows the best recent scholarship to suggest that Christian narratives of Julian’s ‘war against Christianity’ are tendentious and Released on: Ap After the Emperor’s corpse had been buried, there was little of his legacy to endure. Murdoch concludes that only the man’s humanity is left to us, but even this must be sifted through centuries of legend and propaganda. Informative and well-written, "The Last Pagan” will surely be the definitive book on Julian for some time to come.
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Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity/5(5). Julian, Philosopher and Emperor, and the Last Struggle of Paganism Against Christianity by Alice GardnerPages: He traces Julian's path from Christianity to paganism, explains the careful measures the emperor took to shift the religious landscape of the Roman world, and shows how Christian contemporaries unfairly redefined Julian as a persecuting tyrant.
This book provides an exciting new way to understand the mind of Rome's last pagan emperor as well as the world that shaped our modern views of Julian's /5(4). Julian, Philosopher and Emporer and the Last Struggle of Paganism Against Christianity Alice Gardner Format: Facsimile PDF Pages (PDF): Publication Date: Download Link (below donate buttons).
Julian, philosopher and emperor, and the last struggle of paganism against Christianity, By Alice Gardner. Abstract "Notes" at end of each of access: Internet Topics: Julian, Emperor of Rome,Philosophers, Emperors Author: Alice Gardner. Julian, philosopher and emperor, and the last struggle of paganism against Christianity.
New York: AMS Press, (OCoLC) Named Person: Julian, Emperor of Rome; Julian, Emperor of Rome: Material Type: Biography: Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors: Alice Gardner.
Julian (born A.D. ), the nephew of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, was trained as a Christian, yet he is known as an apostate because when he became emperor (A.D. ) he opposed Christianity. In The Demise of Paganism, James J. O'Donnell suggests that the emperor's particularly vehement stance against Christianity (and support for.
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[Alice Gardner] -- "Notes" at end of each chapter. Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (). Born in Constantinople in orJulian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and during his short reign tried to revive paganism, which, after the conversion to Christianity of his uncle Constantine the Great early in the fourth century, began losing ground at an accelerating pace.
This book is testimony to the enduring fascination with the figure of the last pagan Roman Emperor Julian, better known as Julian the Apostate, for his conversion from Christianity to paganism and his desire to restore paganism following the “revolution” of his uncle Constantine the Great (–), the first Christian Roman : Shaun Tougher.
Julian was raised a Christian, but turned to paganism, earning his reputation as 'the apostate'. Flickr. Today marks the death of the Roman emperor Julian, remembered in Christian tradition as 'Julian the Apostate' – a pagan famed for his hatred of Christianity.
It's said his dying words were addressed to Christ: 'You have conquered!'. Julian was the last pagan emperor to rule the Roman Empire.
As he was a nephew of the emperor Constantine, he had been brought up as a Christian, though he studied with Neoplatonists while growing up, and secretly abandoned Christianity in Julian (Flavius Claudius Julianus) was born on 30 th April in Constantinople as a member of the Constantinian Dynasty which was the first Christian dynasty of the Roman Empire.
After an empery that lasted 18 months from tohe was wounded in a war and he died as the last Pagan emperor of the Roman Empire. His parents were Christians. This book concerns itself with the Roman Emperor Julian (as the title suggests, he was the last pagan emperor of the Rome) and focuses primarily on his relationship with the empire's Christian minority.
H.C. Teitler is clearly an expert on Julian, and he makes use of a vast array of different texts - often quoting them at moderate length/5. Adrian Murdoch writes quite well and is engaging throughout The Last Pagan.
I am grateful for the book, especially since it is hard to find writings devoted specifically to Julian, who was a pagan with the intent of ushering in a new age of paganism in the Roman Empire.
The Introduction is where a capsulized version of the book's story is /5. Julian, philosopher and emperor, and the last struggle of paganism against Christianity, By Alice Gardner.
Abstract "Notes" at end of each of access: Internet Topics: Julian, Emperor of Rome, Author: Alice Gardner. The emperor Julian ruled the Roman Empire for a brief 20 months inafter a year period of Christianity as the state religion under Constantine and Constantius II.
Immediately on assuming the role with the death of Constantius II, he publicly declared his ‘paganism’. The Roman historian Ammianus writes, “Although Julian from his earliest. A few decades after Julian's untimely death and the last stand of Paganism, in Theodosius I banned all public Pagan activities and elevated Christianity to the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
The empire remained Christian until its end in at the hand of the Ottomans.H. C. Teitler, The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity, Oxford University Press, New York Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne ().
Born in Constantinople in orJulian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and during his short reign tried to revive paganism, which, after the conversion.Julian the Apostate sought to create a kind of 'Church of Paganism' as a viable alternative to the Christian religion in which he was reared, but which he repudiated to take up his ancestral gods and their rites.
Thus it is fitting that Julian be treated as a Pagan Church Father. That is the treatment given him at last by the erudite R. Joseph Hoffmann, whose earlier reconstruction of Porphyry.
