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| Titre : | The Early Christians |
| Auteurs : | Michael Gough, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | London [GB] : Thames and Hudson, 1961 |
| Format : | 268 p. / Photos et ill. N&B; carte |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | GJ/A (Histoire de l'Eglise des 6 premiers siècles : approche globale) |
| Résumé : |
The word ‘early’, as it appears in the title of this book, is taken to signify the period before 526 a.d.,the year of Justinian’s accession as Emperor in Constantinople. Until then the influence and prestige of Rome were still considerable, and there had been no definite break with the past. In a cosmopolitan city, whose main elements were Greek and Oriental, Latin remained the language of officialdom. Two Consuls, responsible to the Senate and People of Rome, were still annually elected; statues of the Emperors and memorials to their victories were set up in Constantinople, as earlier they had been in Rome under their pagan predecessors. From 526 onwards the last tenuous links with ancient Rome were snapped one by one, and a new Empire arose, based on the authority, under imperial safeguards, of the Christian Church. A few outstanding monuments of the period of Justinian are, however, included to round off the story.
Some five hundred years were enough to sec the transformation of what must have appeared at first to be an obscure Jewish cult into the main spiritual impulse of a great Empire, and these five hundred years form the chronological background to this book; but since the fortunes of the Church and of its individual members changed radically after the Edict of Toleration in 311 a.d., this natural break has been used to divide the book into two parts, each consisting of a short historical introduction followed by a description of the architecture and art of its period. The main emphasis is on archaeology, whenever it throws (as so often it does) new light on the life, thought, art and material possessions of the early Christians. On the other hand, the literary record is not neglected. A general chapter on the geographical, historical and religious background to the story of the first Christians forms an introduction to the whole book. |
| Note de contenu : |
- List of illustrations
- Foreword - Introduction: the background - I. The first three centuries of Christianity: a historical summary - II. Christian architecture before Constantine - III. Christian art before Constantine - IV. From Constantine to Justinian: the religious background - V. The Christian basilica - VI. Christian centralized and domed architecture - VII. The art of a Christian empire - VIII. Justinian, Theodora, and the golden age - Select bibliography - Sources of illustrations - The plates - Notes on the plates - Index |
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