Epiphanius of Cyprus A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity - Christianity in Late Antiquity

Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text (the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies) is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual eccentric, a marginal figure of late antiquity. In this book, Andrew Jacobs moves Epiphanius from the margin back toward the center and proposes we view major cultural themes of late antiquity in a new light altogether. Through an examination of the key cultural concepts of celebrity, conversion, discipline, scripture, and salvation, Jacobs shifts our understanding of "late antiquity" from a transformational period open to new ideas and peoples toward a Christian Empire that posited a troubling, but ever-present, "otherness" at the center of its cultural production.

ISBN:	9780520291126
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	05 Jul 2016
DEWEY:	270.2092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiv, 335
Weight:	612g
Height:	239mm
Width:	160mm
Spine width:	29mm

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