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Controlling Contested Places

Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy

by Christine Shepardson

  • Hardback
  • 312 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • 15.5 x 22.9 x 3.1 cm

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From constructing new buildings to describing rival-controlled areas as morally and physically dangerous, leaders in late antiquity fundamentally shaped their physical environment and thus the events that unfolded within it. "Controlling Contested Places" maps the city of Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) through the topographically sensitive vocabulary of cultural geography, demonstrating the critical role played by physical and rhetorical spatial contests during the tumultuous fourth century. Paying close attention to the manipulation of physical places, Christine Shepardson exposes some of the powerful forces that structured the development of religious orthodoxy and orthopraxy in the late Roman Empire. Theological claims and political support were not the only significant factors in determining which Christian communities gained authority around the Empire. Rather, Antioch's urban and rural places, far from being an inert backdrop against which events transpired, were ever-shifting sites of, and tools for, the negotiation of power, authority, and religious identity. This book traces the ways in which leaders like John Chrysostom, Theodoret, and Libanius encouraged their audiences to modify their daily behaviors and transform their interpretation of the world (and landscape) around them. Shepardson argues that examples from Antioch were echoed around the Mediterranean world, and similar types of physical and rhetorical manipulations continue to shape the politics of identity and perceptions of religious orthodoxy to this day.
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  • Author

    Christine Shepardson

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of California Press

  • Published

    April 2014

  • Weight

    568g

  • Page Count

    312

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 22.9 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520280359

  • ISBN-10

    0520280350

  • Eden Code

    4266494

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