The Christian State in Late Antiquity: Officials, Identities, and Religious Change, c. 400-600 CE

古代晚期的基督教国家：官员、身份和宗教变迁，c。

• 批准号: AH/T011521/1
• 负责人: Robin Whelan
• 金额: $ 18.94万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT011521%2F1
• 关键词: Christian; State; Late; Antiquity; Officials

This project seeks a new understanding of the relationship between Christianity and the state in late antiquity (c. 250-700 CE). It examines how Christian ideas permeated the representation and practice of governance in the later Roman Empire at the end of antiquity, and developed into the basic political framework of the Byzantine Empire and post-Roman Europe. This process of Christianization is hardly understudied. For centuries, historians have debated the implications of the Emperor Constantine's conversion in 312 CE; more recent work has traced the complex cultural and social impact of the resulting legalization and expansion of the church. But these new histories of religious change have left the state behind. Through my leadership activities, I will seek to diversify and revitalize the study of late ancient Christian political thought. I will run panels at international meetings and a conference in Liverpool leading to an edited volume. This network will move discussion away from old-fashioned analysis of the constitutional relationship between emperor and bishops to explore a wider social history of governance (e.g. gendered praise and invective, the imperial family, ethnic discourse, demonology). It will also seek to reshape old narratives by incorporating previously understudied texts, languages, and regions of western Eurasia. These network events will build on a conference I ran at the University of Liverpool in June 2019.My individual research project takes a novel approach by focusing on overlooked Christian political actors: not emperors, kings, or bishops, but rather the thousands of administrators who served late Roman and post-Roman regimes in their palaces and across their provinces. More often than not, it was these elites through whom people in the late ancient Mediterranean experienced the power of the state. This project assembles and analyses the literary and material evidence for the religious beliefs and practices of imperial and royal officials across the Mediterranean world between 400 and 600 CE. By considering these texts and objects in the light of modern theories of identity, I will evaluate how the religious affiliations of this service aristocracy impacted their political agency. Reconstructing contemporary expectations of these Christian officials will provide a window onto how Christian political thought was put into action and shaped the day-to-day reality of governance in the later Roman Empire and its successors. The result will be a new account of how religious change reshaped the culture of the state in societies from Gaul to Mesopotamia in late antiquity. The main outcome of this project will be a monograph on the religious identities of imperial and royal officials in the fifth and sixth centuries. This book will speak to wider histories of Christianization, the relationship between 'church' and 'state', and the formation of western ideas of secularity and (de)secularization.The major Impact element of the project will be a collaboration with the Antiquities curators of the Liverpool World Museum to help plan and realize an exhibit of their classical collections opening in February 2021. As part of this team, I will use my research in this project and my wider expertise to advise on the display of late ancient objects not currently accessible by the public, as well as giving spotlight talks. This partnership will feed into further collaborations, including a Study Day on best practice in exhibiting late ancient material which I will organize for summer 2022 in partnership with Prof. Bonnie Effros. In sum, this Early Career Leadership fellowship would allow me to establish myself as an international research leader in my field, bring my second book project to fruition, and develop a substantial Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement project which will engage with museum curators and a wider public.

该项目旨在对古代晚期基督教与国家之间的关系进行新的理解（c。公元250-700年）。它考察了基督教思想如何渗透到古代末期罗马帝国后期的治理表现和实践中，并发展成为拜占庭帝国和后罗马欧洲的基本政治框架。基督教化的过程几乎没有被研究过。几个世纪以来，历史学家一直在争论君士坦丁大帝在公元312年皈依的影响;最近的工作追溯了由此产生的教会合法化和扩张的复杂文化和社会影响。但是这些宗教变革的新历史已经把国家抛在了后面。通过我的领导活动，我将寻求多样化和振兴古代基督教晚期政治思想的研究。我将在国际会议和利物浦的一次会议上主持小组讨论，最终编辑成一卷。这个网络将把讨论从对皇帝和主教之间的宪法关系的老式分析转移到探索更广泛的治理社会历史（例如性别化的赞美和谩骂，皇室，种族话语，恶魔学）。它还将试图通过整合以前研究不足的文本，语言和欧亚大陆西部地区来重塑旧的叙事。这些网络活动将建立在我运行在利物浦大学在2019年6月的会议上。我的个人研究项目采取了一种新颖的方法，通过关注被忽视的基督教政治演员：不是皇帝，国王或主教，而是成千上万的管理员谁服务于晚罗马和后罗马政权在他们的宫殿和他们的省份。在大多数情况下，正是通过这些精英，古地中海晚期的人们体验到了国家的力量。该项目收集并分析了公元400年至600年期间地中海世界帝国和皇家官员的宗教信仰和实践的文学和物质证据。通过考虑这些文本和对象在现代理论的身份，我将评估如何的宗教关系的服务贵族影响他们的政治机构。重建这些基督教官员的当代期望将提供一个窗口，了解基督教政治思想如何付诸行动，并塑造了罗马帝国后期及其继任者的日常治理现实。其结果将是一个新的帐户如何宗教变化重塑了社会的国家文化从高卢到美索不达米亚在古代晚期。该项目的主要成果将是一本关于第五和第六世纪帝国和皇家官员宗教身份的专著。这本书将讲述基督教化的更广泛的历史，“教会”和“国家”之间的关系，以及西方世俗化和（去）世俗化思想的形成。该项目的主要影响因素将是与利物浦世界博物馆的古董策展人合作，帮助计划和实现他们的古典收藏品展览将于2021年2月开幕。作为这个团队的一员，我将利用我在这个项目中的研究和我更广泛的专业知识，为公众目前无法访问的晚期古代物品的展示提供建议，并进行重点演讲。这种伙伴关系将有助于进一步的合作，包括关于展示晚期古代材料的最佳实践的研究日，我将与Bonnie Effros教授合作于2022年夏天组织。总之，这个早期职业领导奖学金将使我成为我所在领域的国际研究领导者，使我的第二本书项目取得成果，并开发一个实质性的知识交流和公众参与项目，该项目将与博物馆馆长和更广泛的公众接触。

项目成果

Modestus at Edessa: imperial officials in the Ecclesiastical Histories of Rufinus, Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret

埃德萨的莫德斯塔：鲁菲努斯、苏格拉底、索佐门和狄奥多雷教会史中的帝国官员

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Millennium Jahrbuch
• 作者: R. Whelan

'Shaping Christian Politics in Late Antiquity', special issue of Journal of Late Antiquity

“塑造古代晚期的基督教政治”，《古代晚期杂志》特刊

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: R. Flower

Introduction

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• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-45763-1_1
• 发表时间: 2020-05-28
• 期刊: Jefferson’s Revolutionary Theory and the Reconstruction of Educational Purpose
• 作者: Burch KT

The borders of official religion: conformity and officeholding in the fifth and sixth centuries

官方宗教的边界：五、六世纪的顺从和担任公职

• 作者: R. Whelan

For official use: Zachariah Rhetor's Ecclesiastical History as political advice

供官方使用：撒迦利亚修辞者的教会史作为政治建议

• 作者: R. Whelan