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In honor of beloved Virgil—
“O degli altri poeti onore e lume . . .”
—Dante, Inferno
Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE
Peter Brown, General Editor
I | Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity, by Sabine G. MacCormack |
II | Synesius of Cyrene: Philosopher-Bishop, by Jay Alan Bregman |
III | Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity, by Kenneth G. Holum |
IV | John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late Fourth Century, by Robert L. Wilken |
V | Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man, by Patricia Cox |
VI | Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, by Philip Rousseau |
VII | Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by A. P. Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein |
VIII | Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul, by Raymond Van Dam |
IX | Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition, by Robert Lamberton |
X | Procopius and the Sixth Century, by Averil Cameron |
XI | Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity, by Robert A. Kaster |
XII | Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180–275, by Kenneth Harl |
XIII | Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, introduced and translated by Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey |
XIV | Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection, by Carole Straw |
XV | “Apex Omnium”: Religion in the “Res gestae” of Ammianus, by R. L. Rike |
XVI | Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World, by Leslie S. B. MacCoull |
XVII | On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity, by Michele Renee Salzman |
XVIII | Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and “The Lives of the Eastern Saints,” by Susan Ashbrook Harvey |
XIX | Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, by Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long, with a contribution by Lee Sherry |
XX | Basil of Caesarea, by Philip Rousseau |
XXI | In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini, introduction, translation, and historical commentary by C. E. V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers |
XXII | Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital, by Neil B. McLynn |
XXIII | Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity, by Richard Lim |
XXIV | The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy, by Virginia Burrus |
XXV | Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius’s “Life” and the Late Antique City, by Derek Krueger |
XXVI | The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine, by Sabine MacCormack |
XXVII | Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems, by Dennis E. Trout |
XXVIII | The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran, by Elizabeth Key Fowden |
XXIX | The Private Orations of Themistius, translated, annotated, and introduced by Robert J. Penella |
XXX | The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity, by Georgia Frank |
XXXI | Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity, edited by Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau |
XXXII | Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium, by Glenn Peers |
XXXIII | Wandering, Begging Monks: Social Order and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity, by Daniel Folger Caner |
XXXIV | Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D., by Noel Lenski |
XXXV | Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages, by Bonnie Effros |
XXXVI | Quṣayr ‘Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria, by Garth Fowden |
XXXVII | Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition, by Claudia Rapp |
XXXVIII | Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity, by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony |
XXXIX | There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire, by Michael Gaddis |
XL | The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq, by Joel Thomas Walker |
XLI | City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria, by Edward J. Watts |
Holy Bishops
in Late Antiquity
The Nature of Christian Leadership
in an Age of Transition
Claudia Rapp
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
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Saint Demetrius with the Bishop of Thessalonike and the Eparch Leo. Seventh-century mosaic from the Church of Ayios Dimitrios, Thessaloniki, Greece. Courtesy of the Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rapp, Claudia.
Holy bishops in late antiquity : the nature of Christian leadership in an age of transition / Claudia Rapp.
p.cm. — (The transformation of the classical heritage ; 37)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–520–24296–3 (alk. paper)
eISBN 9780520931411
1. Bishops—Rome.2. Church history—Primitive and early church, ca. 30–600.I. Title.II. Series.
BR166.R362005
262’.1214—dc22
2004013430
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In memoriam
Edeltraud Rapp, geb. Ebert
Bromberg, 2.
März 1931–Dortmund, 30. Dezember 1985
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS