RT Book
T1 Petition and performance in ancient Rome: the Apologies of Justin Martyr
T2 Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics
JF Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics
A1 Cline, Brandon
LA English
PP Piscataway, NJ
PB Gorgias Press
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1738973905
AB Introduction: Petition and performance -- Justin's performance context : petition and response in the Roman Empire -- Literary self-description in the Apologies -- A literary comparison of the Apologies with administrative petitions -- Generic hybridity in the Apologies -- Conclusion: Summary of the argument.
AB "The system of petition and response was part and parcel of life in the Roman Empire. This book contextualizes Justin Martyr's Apologies within this system of petition and response, arguing that Justin, in a fertile moment in the history of administrative practice, took a well-scripted form of imperial supplication and public display and boldly transformed it into a uniquely stylized statement of voiced injustice and Christian transparency. Using the heuristic of performance, this book not only compares the Apologies to extant petitions but draws attention to Justin's strategies of elaboration and to the qualities of his work as a staged enactment within wider political, social, and literary contexts. The result is a reading of the Apologies as an opportunistic combination of petitionary, apologetic, and protreptic discourses by which Justin sought to address both his procedural objections to Christian trials and the popular and philosophical prejudices of his learned contemporaries"--
NO Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 2016, titled Petition and performance in the Apologies of Justin Martyr
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BR65.J83
SN 9781463239183
K1 Justin : Martyr, Saint : Apologies
K1 Religion And Politics : Rome : History
K1 Political customs and rites : Rome : History
K1 Petitions : Rome
K1 Performance (Law) : Rome
K1 Apologetics : History : Early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Hochschulschrift