The Recruiting Power of Christianity: The Rise of a Religion in the Material Culture of Fourth-Century Rome and Its Echo in History

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TextSeries: Papers of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome ; 68Publication details: Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2021Description: 236 p., 28 cmISBN:

9788854911314

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History -- Christianity -- Iconography -- Italy

Contents:

1. Early Christian Art Exhibited and Re-considered: By way of an Introduction Sible de Blaauw 2. The Transformation of the Christian Community in Rome John Curran 3. Symbolic Meaning of the Romany Funerary Art in Late Antiquity Eric M. Moormann 4. Christian Concepts and Roman Grammar in Late Antique Art Paolo Liverani 5. Violence and Recruitment: The End of Mithraea in Late Antique Rome Feyo L. Schuddeboom 6. From Shepherd to God: Images of Christ in the Fourth Century 89 Maria Lidova 7. We shepherd you, we are shepherded with you’: Augustine on the Motives of a Good Shepherd Paul van Geest 8. Epigraphy and the Material Culture of Martyr Commemoration in Damasan Rome Marianne Sághy, Heavenly Patrons 9. Christian Martyrdom in Historical Perspective: On the Origins of the Story of Saint Catherine of Alexandria Daniëlle Slootjes 10. , Philip Neri in the Catacombs: Myth and Iconography Ingo Herklotz 11. Alessandro VellaFrans Floris: Wrestling with Beasts in the Colosseum Arnold Nesselrath 12. Constantine the Great in Seventeenth-Century Art of the Netherlands: Iconography, Tradition and Ancient Sources Diederik Burgersdijk

Summary: 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

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Continuing Resources	Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) Library First Floor - 1.06	KNIR 68 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		KNIR 68

1. Early Christian Art Exhibited and Re-considered: By way of an Introduction

Sible de Blaauw 2. The Transformation of the Christian Community in Rome

John Curran 3. Symbolic Meaning of the Romany Funerary Art in Late Antiquity

Eric M. Moormann 4. Christian Concepts and Roman Grammar in Late Antique Art

Paolo Liverani 5. Violence and Recruitment: The End of Mithraea in Late Antique Rome
Feyo L. Schuddeboom 6. From Shepherd to God: Images of Christ in the Fourth Century 89
Maria Lidova 7. We shepherd you, we are shepherded with you’: Augustine on the Motives of a Good Shepherd

Paul van Geest 8. Epigraphy and the Material Culture of Martyr Commemoration in Damasan Rome
Marianne Sághy, Heavenly Patrons 9. Christian Martyrdom in Historical Perspective: On the Origins of the Story of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Daniëlle Slootjes 10. , Philip Neri in the Catacombs: Myth and Iconography
Ingo Herklotz 11. Alessandro VellaFrans Floris: Wrestling with Beasts in the Colosseum
Arnold Nesselrath 12. Constantine the Great in Seventeenth-Century Art of the Netherlands: Iconography, Tradition and Ancient Sources 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

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