These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural, and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE.
The common theme of the chapters is the utopian ideals of religious groups, whether these are inscribed on the body, on the landscape, in texts, or on other cultural objects. The volume is the first to apply this conceptual framework to Late Antiquity, when historically significant conflicts arose between the adherents of four major religious identities: Greaco-Roman 'pagans', newly dominant Christians; diaspora Jews, who were more or less persecuted, depending on the current regime; and the emerging religion and power of Islam. Late Antiquity was thus a period when dystopian realities competed with memories of a mythical Golden Age, variously conceived according to the religious identity of the group. The contributors come from a range of disciplines, including cultural studies, religious studies, ancient history, and art history, and employ both theoretical and empirical approaches. This volume is unique in the range of evidence it draws upon, both visual and textual, to support the basic argument that utopia in Late Antiquity, whether conceived spiritually, artistically, or politically, was a place of the past but also of the future, even of the afterlife.
Memories of Utopia will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, and art historians of the later Roman Empire, and those working on religion in Late Antiquity and Byzantium.
Edition 1st EditionFirst Published 2019eBook Published 9 December 2019Pub. Location LondonImprint RoutledgePages 300eBook ISBN 9780429448508
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Writing and rewriting the history of conflicts
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Memories of trauma and the formation of a Christian identity
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Augustine’s memory of the 411 confrontation with Emeritus of Cherchell
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Forging a new utopia
chapter 5|17 pages
Purity and the rewriting of memory
Revisiting Julian’s disgust for the Christian worship of corpses and its consequencesSize: 0.23 MBSize: 0.23 MBchapter 7|15 pages
Utopia, body, and pastness in John Chrysostom
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Rewriting landscapes
chapter 8|20 pages
Memories of peace and violence in the late-antique West
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Two foreign saints in Palestine
Responses to religious conflict in the fifth to seventh centuriesSize: 0.17 MBchapter 10|15 pages
Remembering the damned
Byzantine liturgical hymns as instruments of religious polemicsSize: 0.24 MBchapter 11|18 pages
Paradise regained?
Utopias of deliverance in seventh-century apocalyptic discourseSize: 0.22 MBchapter 12|15 pages
Ausonius, Fortunatus, and the ruins of the Moselle
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Memory and materiality
chapter 13|25 pages
Spitting on statues and shaving Hercules’s beard
The conflict over images (and idols) in early ChristianitySize: 1.53 MBSize: 0.62 MBchapter 15|16 pages
Transformation of Mediterranean ritual spaces up to the early Arab conquests
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Epilogue
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