The Recruiting Power of Christianity: The Rise of a Religion in the Material Culture of Fourth-Century Rome and Its Echo in History
The Recruiting Power of Christianity: The Rise of a Religion in the Material Culture of Fourth-Century Rome and Its Echo in History
- Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2021
- 236 p., 28 cm
- Papers of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome; 68 .
1. Early Christian Art Exhibited and Re-considered: By way of an Introduction
2. The Transformation of the Christian Community in Rome
3. Symbolic Meaning of the Romany Funerary Art in Late Antiquity
4. Christian Concepts and Roman Grammar in Late Antique Art
5. Violence and Recruitment: The End of Mithraea in Late Antique Rome
6. From Shepherd to God: Images of Christ in the Fourth Century 89
7. We shepherd you, we are shepherded with you’: Augustine on the Motives of a Good Shepherd
8. Epigraphy and the Material Culture of Martyr Commemoration in Damasan Rome
9. Christian Martyrdom in Historical Perspective: On the Origins of the Story of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
10. , Philip Neri in the Catacombs: Myth and Iconography
11. Alessandro VellaFrans Floris: Wrestling with Beasts in the Colosseum
12. Constantine the Great in Seventeenth-Century Art of the Netherlands: Iconography, Tradition and Ancient Sources Sible de Blaauw John Curran Eric M. Moormann Paolo Liverani Feyo L. Schuddeboom Maria Lidova Paul van Geest Marianne Sághy, Heavenly Patrons Daniëlle Slootjes Ingo Herklotz Arnold Nesselrath Diederik Burgersdijk
This collection of essays addresses the question of the recruiting power of Christianity within the Roman Empire, seen through the lens of the material and visual culture of the city of Rome. Its making was inspired by the exhibition Rome: The Dream of the Emperor Constantine in the De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam (2015-2016). The subject ot the exhibition was the breakthrough of Christianity as the dominant religion in the heterogeneous, dynamic and multifaceted city of Rome in Late Antiquity. It raised a number of questions related to the underlying issue regarding the appeal of the Christian religion in Rome society. This volume offers an in depth discussion of these questions by various experts.
The subjects covered are:
- The role of the city of Rome as a stage of the process
- multi-religious dynamics
- the aesthetics of Roman non-Christian and Christian art
- the representation of the divine
- the durability of the attractive concepts of Early Christianity throughout history
- the invention of Late Antiquity and the appreciation of Early Christian art in a museological and scholarly context
9788854911314
History--Iconography--Italy--Christianity
1. Early Christian Art Exhibited and Re-considered: By way of an Introduction
2. The Transformation of the Christian Community in Rome
3. Symbolic Meaning of the Romany Funerary Art in Late Antiquity
4. Christian Concepts and Roman Grammar in Late Antique Art
5. Violence and Recruitment: The End of Mithraea in Late Antique Rome
6. From Shepherd to God: Images of Christ in the Fourth Century 89
7. We shepherd you, we are shepherded with you’: Augustine on the Motives of a Good Shepherd
8. Epigraphy and the Material Culture of Martyr Commemoration in Damasan Rome
9. Christian Martyrdom in Historical Perspective: On the Origins of the Story of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
10. , Philip Neri in the Catacombs: Myth and Iconography
11. Alessandro VellaFrans Floris: Wrestling with Beasts in the Colosseum
12. Constantine the Great in Seventeenth-Century Art of the Netherlands: Iconography, Tradition and Ancient Sources Sible de Blaauw John Curran Eric M. Moormann Paolo Liverani Feyo L. Schuddeboom Maria Lidova Paul van Geest Marianne Sághy, Heavenly Patrons Daniëlle Slootjes Ingo Herklotz Arnold Nesselrath Diederik Burgersdijk
This collection of essays addresses the question of the recruiting power of Christianity within the Roman Empire, seen through the lens of the material and visual culture of the city of Rome. Its making was inspired by the exhibition Rome: The Dream of the Emperor Constantine in the De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam (2015-2016). The subject ot the exhibition was the breakthrough of Christianity as the dominant religion in the heterogeneous, dynamic and multifaceted city of Rome in Late Antiquity. It raised a number of questions related to the underlying issue regarding the appeal of the Christian religion in Rome society. This volume offers an in depth discussion of these questions by various experts.
The subjects covered are:
- The role of the city of Rome as a stage of the process
- multi-religious dynamics
- the aesthetics of Roman non-Christian and Christian art
- the representation of the divine
- the durability of the attractive concepts of Early Christianity throughout history
- the invention of Late Antiquity and the appreciation of Early Christian art in a museological and scholarly context
9788854911314
History--Iconography--Italy--Christianity