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Empire to Commonwealth
Garth Fowden
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Description for Empire to Commonwealth
Paperback. Presents an approach to late antiquity that shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen 'world empires'. Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FB; 3D; 3F; HBJD; HBJF1; HBLA; HBLC; HRCC1; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 235 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the looser, more pluralistic commonwealths of Eastern Christendom and Islam. With rare breadth of vision, Fowden traces this transition from empire to commonwealth, and in the process exposes the sources of major cultural contours that still play a determining role ... Read more
In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the looser, more pluralistic commonwealths of Eastern Christendom and Islam. With rare breadth of vision, Fowden traces this transition from empire to commonwealth, and in the process exposes the sources of major cultural contours that still play a determining role ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691015453
SKU
V9780691015453
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About Garth Fowden
Garth Fowden is Research Associate at the Center for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, and the author of The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (Cambridge/Princeton).
Reviews for Empire to Commonwealth
"An intelligent essay... [It] should open new cooperation between scholars of late antiquity and early Christianity, and scholars of early Islam."
Choice "A tight, powerful volume that, among other things, makes some fairly revolutionary comparisons between the Islamic empire and Rome."
The Voice Literary Supplement "Fowden offers much that is new, interesting, and certainly correct in a manner that is generally appealing. ... Read more
Choice "A tight, powerful volume that, among other things, makes some fairly revolutionary comparisons between the Islamic empire and Rome."
The Voice Literary Supplement "Fowden offers much that is new, interesting, and certainly correct in a manner that is generally appealing. ... Read more