{"product_id":"9781009299275","title":"Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power : Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire by Lea Niccolai","description":"This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the rise and consolidation of a Christian politics of interpretation that relied on exegesis as a self-legitimising device to secure control over Roman history via claims to Christianity's control of paideia. This reconstruction infuses Julian's reaction with contextual significance. His literary and political project emerges as a response to contemporary reconfigurations of Christian hermeneutics as controlling the meaning of Rome's culture and history. At the same time, understanding Julian as a participant in a larger debate re-qualifies all fourth-century political and episcopal discourse as a long knock-on effect reacting to the imperial mobilisation of Christian debates over the link between power and culture.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312024826229,"sku":"9781009299275","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781009299275","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}