The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium : Views from the Wider Mediterranean World in Conversation.
Millennium pursues an interdisciplinary approach transcending historical eras. The international editorial board and the advisory board represent a wide range of disciplines - contributions from art and literary studies are just as welcome as historical, theological and philosophical disciplines; co...
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Berlin/Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on Good Christian Rulership
- A. The Good Christian Ruler in the Roman Empire
- Finding a Common Cause: Fourth-Century Greek Discourses on Rulership
- The Good Sinful Ruler: Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius I
- The Emperor's Two Cities: Augustine's Image of the Good Christian Ruler in De civitate Dei 5.24
- Pious and Impious Christian Rulers According to Egyptian Historiography and Hagiography: A First Survey of the Evidence
- Faithful Rulers and Theological Deviance: Ephrem the Syrian and Jacob of Serugh on the Roman Emperor
- B. The Good Christian Ruler between Persia and Rome
- Images of the Good Ruler in Sasanian Iran: An Emic View
- Representations of Rulership in Late Antique Armenia
- The Depiction of the Arsacid Dynasty in Medieval Armenian Historiography
- Vakhtang I Gorgasali (r. 447-522) as a Christian Monarch in Georgia: His Depiction in the Life of Kartli
- The Creation of a "Pious" Image of King Vačʽagan II (r. c. 485-523) of Caucasian Albania in the Tale of Vačʽagan (Early Sixth Century)
- Concerning Four Kings From the Land of 'Deep Ravines, Dense Forests and Dark Thickets'
- C. The Good Christian Ruler in Post‐Roman Traditions
- The Good Ruler from a Papal Perspective: Continuities and Discontinuities in Papal Letters from the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
- The Image of the Christian Ruler in the Catholic Monarchy of Visigothic Spain: Julian of Toledo's Historia Wambae
- Goodness and Cruelty: The Image of the Ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire in the Period of Christianisation (Ninth Century)
- A Christian King in Africa: The Image of Christian Nubian Rulers in Internal and External Sources
- D. The Good Ruler under Islamic Rule
- Justice and Good Administration in Medieval Islam: The Book of the Pearl of the Ruler by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (860-940).
- Images of Emperors and Emirs in Early Islamic Egypt
- Shaping the Good Christian King under Muslim Rule: Constantine and the Torah in the Melkite Arabic Chronicle of Agapius of Mabbug (Tenth Century)
- Index of Persons and Places
- Subject Index.