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Social Conflict in the Age of Justinian
Peter N. Bell
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Its Nature, Management, and Mediation
出版OUP Oxford, 2013-04-04
主題History / Ancient / GeneralHistory / Ancient / RomeHistory / Europe / GreeceHistory / Byzantine EmpirePhilosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & ClassicalReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / HistorySocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN01995673369780199567331
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=E_2twD6wgE0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Our understanding of Late Antiquity can be transformed by the non-dogmatic application of social theory to more traditional evidence when studying major social conflicts in the Eastern Roman Empire, not least under the Emperor Justinian (527-565). Social Conflict in the Age of Justinian explores a range of often violent conflicts across the whole empire - on the land, in religion, and in sport - during this pivotal period in European history. Drawing on both sociology and social psychology, and on his experience as a senior British Civil Servant dealing with violent political conflicts in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, Bell shows that such conflicts were a basic feature of the overwhelmingly agricultural political economy of the empire. These conflicts were reflected at the ideological level and lead to intense persecution of intellectuals and Pagans as an ever more robust Christian ideological hegemony was established. In challenging the loyalties of all social classes, they also increased the vulnerability of an emperor and his allies. The need to legitimise the emperor, through an increasingly sacralised monarchy, and to build a loyal constituency, consequently remained a top priority for Justinian, even if his repeated efforts to unite the churches failed.