Christianity, book-burning and censorship in late antiquity : studies in text transmission /

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Author / Creator:	Rohmann, Dirk, author.
Imprint:	Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016. ©2016
Description:	1 online resource (370 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 1861-5996 ; Volume 135 Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte ; Volume 135.
Subject:	Censorship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History. Prohibited books -- History. Book burning -- History. Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Book burning Censorship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Church history -- Primitive and early church Prohibited books History
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14140754

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ISBN:	3110485559 9783110485554 3110486075 9783110486070
Notes:	Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little sustained consideration by academics. In an approach that presents evidence for the role played by Christian institutions, writers and saints, this book analyses a broad range of literary and legal sources, some of which have hitherto been little studied. Paying special attention to the problem of which genres and book types were likely to be targeted, the author argues that in addition to heretical, magical, astrological and anti-Christian books, other less obviously subversive categories of literature were also vulnerable to destruction, censorship or suppression through prohibition of the copying of manuscripts. These include texts from materialistic philosophical traditions, texts which were to become the basis for modern philosophy and science. This book examines how Christian authorities, theologians and ideologues suppressed ancient texts and associated ideas at a time of fundamental transformation in the late classical world.
Other form:	3-11-048445-5

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