Chalcedon in context
Subtitle: church councils 400-700
By: edited by Richard Price and Mary Whitby
Series: Translated texts for historians, contexts -- 1
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781846311772
Subjects: Council of Chalcedon (451); Councils and synods; Church history
Description: This collection of essays has its origin in a conference held at Oxford in 2006 to mark the publication of the first English edition of the Acts of Chalcedon. Its aim is to place Chalcedon in a broader context, and bring out the importance of the acts of the early general councils from the fifth to the seventh century, documents that because of their bulk and relative inaccessibility have received only limited attention till recently. This volume is evidence that this situation is now rapidly changing, as historians of late antiquity as well as specialists in the history of the Christian Church discover the richness of this material for the exploration of common concerns and tensions across the provinces of the Later Roman Empire, language use, networks of influence and cultural exchange, and political manipulation at many different levels of society. The extent to which the acts were instruments of propaganda and should not be read as a pure verbatim record of proceedings is brought out in a number of the essays, which illustrate the fascinating literary problems raised by these texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mode of access: Internet.