Stefanie Lenk

Roman Identity and Lived Religion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Demonstrates, by examining the decoration of Mediterranean baptisteries from the fifth to the seventh century, that Roman popular culture had a strong impact on how common Christians defined what it meant to them to be Christian. Important for scholars of ancient history, late antique Christianity and art history"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9781009408653
• ISBN-10: 1009408658
• Artikelnr.: 71955532

Autorenporträt

STEFANIE LENK is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Art History and Art Collection at the University of Göttingen. She was Curator of the international exhibition 'Imagining the Divine. Art and the Rise of World Religions' held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 2017-18, Postdoctoral researcher on 'Global Horizons in Pre-Modern Art' at the University of Bern in 2018-21 and Fellow at the RomanIslam Center of the University of Hamburg in 2021-22.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The absence of Christian iconography and the presence of Roman cult and
culture in the baptismal complex of Cuicul, Numidia; 2. The use of
non-Christian imagery in baptisteries; 3. The conversion of a
personification - the River Jordan in Ravenna.