Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
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帝国到联邦：古代晚期一神论的后果
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10.2307/606193
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发表时间：
1993
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Garth Fowden
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Garth Fowden
加思·福登以这种大胆的方式研究古代晚期，展示了从公元2世纪罗马繁荣的顶峰到公元9世纪伊斯兰帝国衰落的开端，人们如何利用对一个上帝的强大信仰来证明和加强“世界帝国”。“但是，一神论所固有的正统和异端之间的紧张关系打破了拜占庭和巴格达的单一帝国，使之成为更松散、更多元化的东方基督教和伊斯兰教联邦。凭借罕见的视野广度，Fowden追溯了从帝国到联邦的过渡，并在此过程中揭示了在欧洲和西南亚仍然发挥决定性作用的主要文化轮廓的来源。
In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the looser, more pluralistic commonwealths of Eastern Christendom and Islam. With rare breadth of vision, Fowden traces this transition from empire to commonwealth, and in the process exposes the sources of major cultural contours that still play a determining role in Europe and southwest Asia.