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Item Number: 112762
Title: The Archaeology of Late Antique 'Paganism'
Author: Lavan, Luke ; Michael Mulryan (eds)
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ISBN: 9789004192379
Description: Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2011. 25cm., hardcover, 642pp. Summary: There is no agreement over how to name the 'pagan' cults of late antiquity. Clearly they were more diverse than this Christian label suggests, but also exhibited tendencies towards monotheism and internal changes which makes it difficult to describe them as 'traditional cults'. This volume, which includes two extensive bibliographic essays, considers the decline of urban temples alongside the varying evolution of other focii of cult practice and identity. The papers reveal great regional diversity in the development of late antique paganism, and suggest that the time has come to abandon a single compelling narrative of 'the end of the temples' based on legal sources and literary accounts. Although temple dectructions are attested, in some regions the end of paganism was both gradual and untraumatic, with more co-existence with Christianity than one might have expected. (Late Antique Archaeology, 7-2009)
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