University of Michigan Press 1997 hardcover New Size: 96x20x144; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

ISBN10: 0472107372, ISBN13: 9780472107377, [publisher: The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor] Hardcover Hardcover. The fourth century c.e. saw the death of the ancient world and the birth of the medieval. Pagan temples crumbled through disuse, while Christian churches sprang up around the fledgling Holy Roman Empire. The emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity changed history: pagans blamed the decline and fall of the Roman Empire on Christianity, but Christians explained events differently. The church history written by Socrates of Constantinople is one of the most important sources, Eastern or Western, pagan or Christian, for these complex centuries. Socrates of Constantinople: Historian of Church and State is the first detailed study of Socrates' history--it describes the historical situation in which he wrote his work, and it pulls together all the personal information available about the author. The volume then examines Socrates' own work: how it was composed, which sources were used and how, and it looks at the relationship between Socrates' work and other church histories. It goes on to consider Socrates' attitudes towards bishops, emperors, and their enemies.Socrates is sometimes dismissed by modern scholars for being a poor ecclesiastical historiographer. However, Theresa Urbainczyk carefully demonstrates Socrates' theory of causation, which affected the way he wrote his history, and she argues that he introduced ...
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University of Michigan Press, Date: 1997-01-07. Hardcover. Acceptable. 96x20x144. Ex-library with stamps, spine label, etc. Cloth boards with wrapped dust jacket. Has a good binding, no marks or notations to the text. 215 pages. 1997. University of Michigan Press ISBN 0472107372 US

University of Michigan Press, Date: 1997-01-07. Hardcover. Acceptable. 96x20x144. Ex-library with stamps, spine label, etc. Cloth boards with wrapped dust jacket. Has a good binding, no marks or notations to the text. 215 pages. 1997. University of Michigan Press ISBN 0472107372 9780472107377 [US]

ISBN10: 0472107372, ISBN13: 9780472107377, [publisher: University of Michigan Press] Hardcover Ex-library with stamps, spine label, etc. Cloth boards with wrapped dust jacket. Has a good binding, no marks or notations to the text. 215 pages.
[West Columbia, SC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

ISBN10: 0472107372, ISBN13: 9780472107377, [publisher: Ann Arbor, Univ. of Michigan Press] Hardcover VIII, 215 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Bibl.-Stempel. SEHR GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. VERY GOOD condition, some traces of use. AC1751 9780472107377 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550
[Löbnitz, Germany] [Publication Year: 1997]
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