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COMPETING INTERPRETIVE SYSTEMS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY - (L.) Niccolai Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power. Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire. Pp. xx + 359, b/w & colour ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Cased, £100, US$130. ISBN: 978-1-009-29929-9.

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(L.) Niccolai Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power. Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire. Pp. xx + 359, b/w & colour ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Cased, £100, US$130. ISBN: 978-1-009-29929-9.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2025

Andrew J. Pottenger*
Affiliation:
Colorado Springs

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References

1 For example, see F. Millar, The Emperor in the Roman World (31 b.c.–a.d. 337) (1977); C. Ando, Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire (2000); C.F. Noreña, Imperial Ideals in the Roman West. Representation, Circulation, Power (2011); A. Omissi, Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire. Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy (2018).

2 See, for example, A. Cameron, Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire. The Development of Christian Discourse (1991); J.M. Schott, Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity (2008); E. DePalma Digeser, R.M. Frakes and J. Stephens (edd.), The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity. Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the Early Islamic World (2010); R. Lizzi Testa, Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity (2022).