The dominion of the dead: power dynamics and the construction of Christian cultural memory at the fourth-century martyr shrine

This thesis is aimed at addressing a lacuna in previous scholarship on the development of the martyr cult in the pivotal fourth century. Recent work on the martyr cult has avoided a diachronic approach to the topic. Consequently through their synchronic approach, issues of the early fifth century ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morehouse, Nathaniel J.
Other Authors: Marx-Wolf, Heidi (Religion)
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/8482