| Description |
1 online resource (246 pages) |
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The Medieval World |
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Medieval world.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editor's Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Beginnings; A new bishop; Ambrose; Taking office; Background and experience; The office of bishop; Death of a brother; Chapter 2 Women; The two sexes; The wife; The virgin; The senses; The body; Sweetness tempting men; Masculinity; Women pleasing themselves; Virginity and society; Women in private and public; Chapter 3 The Bible; Ambrose's writing on the Bible; Ambrose's approach to the Bible; Literal interpretation; Allegorical interpretation |
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The case of DavidThe Bible; Christ in the Bible; Two miracles; Coming down and going up; A parable; Ambrose's piety; Structural coherence: the case of Shechem; Allegory across the centuries; Chapter 4 Church, State, Heretics and Pagans; The success of the church; The state; The church as female; Polemic against anti-Nicaeans; Persecution of anti-Nicaeans; Pagans; Chapter 5 The Bishop and the City; Milan, sinful or Christian?; A skirmish over churches; Martyrdom; Easter 386; Music and hymns; The significance of Easter; Controversy with anti-Nicaeans; The discovery of relics; Ambrose victorious |
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The city and its bishopChapter 6 On Duties; The De Officiis; The clergy; Ambrose and classical thought; Neoplatonism; Synthesis; Conclusion; Chapter 7 The Elderly Bishop; The Jews; Callinicum; Repression at Thessaloniki; Church affairs; The death of Valentinian; The death of Theodosius; Last years; Chapter 8 Nachleben; Bibliography; Map: The late Roman world of Ambrose; Index |
| Summary |
An account, and assessment, of the career of St Ambrose (339-397), from 374 bishop of Milan and one of the four Doctors of the Christian Church (with Sts. Jerome, Augustine and Gregory the Great). A key figure in the transition of the later Roman Empire into its medieval successor, Western Christendom, Ambrose was deeply involved in the political, social and religious issues of his day: struggles between church and state (especially with Emperor Theodosius), the fight against heresy, but he also had a deep influence on Church thought such as the role and status of women. John Moorhead consider |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397.
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| SUBJECT |
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397 fast |
| Subject |
Church and state -- Rome -- History
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Church and state
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Church history -- Primitive and early church
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317891024 |
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1317891023 |
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130687047X |
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9781306870474 |
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9781315843155 |
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1315843153 |
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9781317891000 |
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1317891007 |
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9781317891017 |
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1317891015 |
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9781138181427 |
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1138181420 |
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