Römische Erinnerungsräume
Heiligenmemoria und kollektive Identitäten im Rom des 3. bis 5. Jahrhunderts n. Chr.
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Between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD Rome underwent a process of transformation which profoundly marked the urban, social, and religious structure of the city. Examing the memory of saints, this study inspects a central field in which this structural change took place. The main themes are, on the one hand, the connection between memoria and various group identities, and, on the other, the specific Christian concept of remembrance, which inturn formed an important prerequisite for the change from a city of late Classical Antiquity to an early medieval city.
Keywords
Christianity; late antiquity; structural change; cultural identity; hagiographyDOI
10.1515/9783110204261ISBN
9783110204261, 9783110191295, 9783110204261Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
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Berlin/Boston, 2008Series
Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies, 11Classification
Ancient history
Social and cultural history
Christianity
History of religion
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