R A Markus
Biographic Data
| ID | 445303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R A Markus |
| GIVEN NAMES | R A |
| FAMILY NAME | Markus |
| SIGNATURE | MARKUS R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
End of Ancient Christianity
Grégoire le Grand , Homélies sur l'Évangile, II
Grégoire le Grand, Homélies sur l'Évangile, II: Homélies XXI–XL. Texte Latin, intro., trans. and notes Raymond Étaix, Georges Blanc and Bruno Judic. (Sources Chrétiennes, 522.) Pp. 596. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2008. €55 (paper). 978 2 204 08845 9; 0750 1978 - Volume 61 Issue 3
Patterns of Christian Intolerance in the Fourth Century
PATTERNS OF CHRISTIAN INTOLERANCE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY ROBERT MARKUS ROBERT MARKUS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_91, March 2007, Pages 51–56, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02375.x Published: 27 July 2011
History and Geography in Late Antiquity
The unwary reader should be warned against misinterpreting the title of this book. It is a study of historiography, not of geography, in Late Antiquity, albeit on an aspect of historiography which is rarely given the attention it deserves. It investigates the uses to which geography was put by the four most influential historians of Late Antiquity: Orosius, Jordanes, Isidore of Seville and Bede—whom medievalists are getting used to have purloined…
Social and historical setting
The main directions in the Church's development had been established in the first three centuries of its existence. The Church entered the fourth century with a set of beliefs and an organizational structure which gave it a recognizable identity. The Constantinian revolution gave a huge new impetus to the Church's spread and to the growth of its public importance. Christianity was becoming a way to prestige; conformity could pay. Christians came …
Saint Augustine
1Nottingham Saint Augustine SergeLancel LondonSCM P. 2002xviii + 590£25
St Augustine of Hippo
1Nottingham St Augustine of Hippo: Life and Controversies GeraldBonner NorwichCanterbury P. 2002432Paperback£14.99
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access R. A. MARKUS R. A. MARKUS Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 447, June 1997, Pages 694-a–694, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.447.694-a Published: 01 June 1997
The Formation of Hell
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access R.A. MARKUS R.A. MARKUS Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 430, February 1994, Pages 125-b–126, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.430.125-b Published: 01 February 1994
The End of Ancient Christianity
This book is concerned with one central historical problem: the nature of the changes that transformed the intellectual and spiritual horizons of the Christian world from its establishment in the fourth century to the end of the sixth. The End of Ancient Christianity examines how Christians, who had formerly constituted a threatened and beleaguered minority, came to define their identity in a changed context of religious respectability in which t…
Introduction
The world of the Christian fathers from Ambrose to Isidore of Seville had come to differ profoundly from the world of the early Apologists, of Origen and Tertullian. The transformations which produced these differences came in two great waves: the first, sweeping across the whole of the Roman world, is the crisis of the third century from which Roman society was to emerge into a new stability in the fourth, a stability won through extensive re-or…
The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350–c.1450
This volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than one thousand years. A work of both synthesis and assessment, The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought presents the results of several decades of critical scholarship in the field, and reflects in its breadth of enquiry precisely that diversity of focus that characterized the medieval sense of the …
Pelagianism
The debate about the social and political attitudes associated with Pelagian theology has exercised a stranglehold on the discussion of Pelagianism in Britain in recent years. Edward Thompson's new book on Saint Germanus and the end of Roman Britain prompts a re-examination of the nature of Pelagianism, a re-examination in which its fate in Britain must take a key part. It will not be necessary to recall here the interesting views on Pelagianism …
The Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity
Saint Augustine’s Views on the ‘Just War’
A long and very respectable tradition of thinking about the morality of warfare has accustomed us to looking at Augustine’s views on the ‘just war’ through the wrong end of a telescope. By common consent, Augustine is the fountain-head of a tradition almost ubiquitous in medieval thought, and still to be discovered lurking, as recently as last April, in a leading article in The Times . In reading Gratian, Thomas Aquinas, Vittoria or Cardinal Bell…
The Mode of Theological Decision Making at the Early Ecumenical Councils
The Mode of Theological Decision Making at the Early Ecumenical Councils: an inquiry into the function of scripture and tradition at the Councils of Nicaea and Ephesus. By Ralph E. Person (Theologischen Dissertationen, Bd xiv.) Pp. 245. Basle: Friedrich Reinhardt, 1978. - Volume 33 Issue 1
Evagrius Scholasticus the Church Historian
Gregory the Great's Europe
Gregory became pope in the summer of 590, to succeed his predecessor who had been carried away by the plague. Nearly fifty years had passed since the first outbreak of the plague in the time of Justinian. Let the plague serve as our signpost to a period of upheaval across Europe. If the 530s were the ‘age of hope’ a disastrous reversal began in the 540s. The succeeding half-century was a time of collapsing hopes and darkening horizons: the prospe…
Country Bishops in Byzantine Africa (Presidential Address)
Town and countryside are contrasting, even opposed ideas: one of those doublets which have dominated European thought since antiquity. Our vocabulary of ‘politics’ and ‘civilization’ bears ample testimony to the deep hold that the prejudices of the townsmen of antiquity have established over our language and our thinking. Sometimes, even in antiquity, those prejudices would be turned on their head: the town, the exclusive milieu of culture, refin…
Die Kirche des früheren Mittelalters . Knut Schäferdiek
The Cult of Icons in Sixth-Century Gaul
Short Notices
Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access R. A. MARKUS R. A. MARKUS University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIII, Issue CCCLXVI, January 1978, Pages 151-a–151, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIII.CCCLXVI.151-a Published: 01 January 1978
Christianity in the Roman World
Neoplatonism and early Christian thought
Saint Augustine’s Views on the ‘Just War’
A long and very respectable tradition of thinking about the morality of warfare has accustomed us to looking at Augustine’s views on the ‘just war’ through the wrong end of a telescope. By common consent, Augustine is the fountain-head of a tradition almost ubiquitous in medieval thought, and still to be discovered lurking, as recently as last April, in a leading article in The Times . In reading Gratian, Thomas Aquinas, Vittoria or Cardinal Bell…
St. Augustine on Signs
M ANY of the topics of Augustinian theology and philosophy in which the notion of 'signs' is central have received a good deal of attention. This is true, above all, of Augustine's sacramental theology. His definition of sacramentum in terms of signum became classical. His definition of signum is rarely mentioned by later writers except in the context of sacramental theology; nevertheless, the notion plays an important part in other contexts. Chi…
Gregory the Great and a papal missionary strategy
In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People Bede includes a deservedly famous letter of Gregory I containing the Pope’s instructions to his missionaries in Kent on how to go about converting the heathen English to Christianity. The letter is addressed to Abbot Mellitus, one of the band of reinforcements sent to England from Rome in June 601. In it Mellitus is asked to instruct Augustine, established at Canterbury for the last four years, …
The Chronology of the Gregorian Mission to England
Professor Margaret Deanesly and Père Grosjean have devoted some discussion to Dom Suso Brechter's study of the sources for the English mission of Gregory the Great. The debate which it has since provoked has centred almost exclusively on the question of the authenticity of the Responsa attributed to Gregory the Great in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People [ H.E. ], i, 27. Mr. J. M. Wallace-Hadrill has rightly insisted that ‘Dom Br…
Christianity and dissent in Roman North Africa
The history of North African Christianity in antiquity is a peculiar blend of the local and the universal. Whether we consider the ‘catholic’ or the ‘dissenting’ traditions represented in it, we find ourselves at the intersection of two worlds. It was not only the ‘Catholicism’ of Optatus, Augustine and Aurelius and their friends and successors that linked the African Church with the Great Church across the seas. Professor Frend long ago drew att…
Donatism
The purpose of this paper is to question some generally held assumptions concerning the character of Donatism, and its relations with the Catholic Church, during the later period of Byzantine rule in North Africa. The features of the Donatist Church during its classical period, in the fourth and fifth centuries, are now well known. They are conveniently surveyed by Dr Frend in his magisterial study of the movement. He has established, definitivel…
St Augustine of Hippo
1Nottingham St Augustine of Hippo: Life and Controversies GeraldBonner NorwichCanterbury P. 2002432Paperback£14.99
Pelagianism
The debate about the social and political attitudes associated with Pelagian theology has exercised a stranglehold on the discussion of Pelagianism in Britain in recent years. Edward Thompson's new book on Saint Germanus and the end of Roman Britain prompts a re-examination of the nature of Pelagianism, a re-examination in which its fate in Britain must take a key part. It will not be necessary to recall here the interesting views on Pelagianism …
The Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity
Reflections on Religious Dissent in North Africa in the Byzantine Period
There are good reasons for historians’ preferring to write history proceeding from the earlier in time to the later. Why, after all, should they ignore time’s one-way arrow? On occasion, however, it is useful to reverse the normal procedure. The history of North African Christianity, and especially the history of the tradition of dissent in it, is a case in point. The literature of the Donatist schism of the fourth and fifth centuries is comparat…
Pleroma and Fulfilment
Pleroma and Fulfilment
To study the work of St. Irenaeus, 'that most painstaking enquirer into all the heretical doctrines', as Tertullian was to call him (adv. Val. 5), is to study the Church's response to the great religious movement which we have come to call 'gnosticism'-and to study it in its most decisive phase. The qualification is important: for Irenaeus bequeathed to the Church a task of assimilation which was to take generations of theologians to accomplish. …
The Dialectic of Eros in Plato'S Symposium
Descartes
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New Evidence on Gnosticism
The first two or three centuries of the Christian era witnessed a luxuriant outcrop of sects which we nowadays group together under the label 'gnostic'. But 'gnosticism', as the name of a religious movement, is a modem invention. True, some of these sects did like to style themselves 'gnostic'; but the Greek word gnosis only means 'knowledge', and that is a thing to which not only heretical sects laid claim. On the contrary, from the very beginni…
St. Augustine on Signs
M ANY of the topics of Augustinian theology and philosophy in which the notion of 'signs' is central have received a good deal of attention. This is true, above all, of Augustine's sacramental theology. His definition of sacramentum in terms of signum became classical. His definition of signum is rarely mentioned by later writers except in the context of sacramental theology; nevertheless, the notion plays an important part in other contexts. Chi…
Origen, The Song of Songs
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The Christian Philosophy of Saint Augustine
Christian Faith and Greek Philosophy
The Impact of Aristotle on Medieval Thought
As a philosopher St Thomas had very little to say that was his own, and I suspect he would have looked askance at anyone who might have suggested that he was an original philosopher. If you try the experiment of dipping into one of his commentaries on Aristotle, I think you will get a vivid illustration of what I have in mind. Take any of his commentaries-on the Metaphysics or the Ethics, the de Anima or the logical works-open it at random, and w…
Scholasticism
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The Chronology of the Gregorian Mission to England
Professor Margaret Deanesly and Père Grosjean have devoted some discussion to Dom Suso Brechter's study of the sources for the English mission of Gregory the Great. The debate which it has since provoked has centred almost exclusively on the question of the authenticity of the Responsa attributed to Gregory the Great in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People [ H.E. ], i, 27. Mr. J. M. Wallace-Hadrill has rightly insisted that ‘Dom Br…
Donatism
The purpose of this paper is to question some generally held assumptions concerning the character of Donatism, and its relations with the Catholic Church, during the later period of Byzantine rule in North Africa. The features of the Donatist Church during its classical period, in the fourth and fifth centuries, are now well known. They are conveniently surveyed by Dr Frend in his magisterial study of the movement. He has established, definitivel…
Christian Faith and Greek Philosophy
Reflections on Religious Dissent in North Africa in the Byzantine Period
There are good reasons for historians’ preferring to write history proceeding from the earlier in time to the later. Why, after all, should they ignore time’s one-way arrow? On occasion, however, it is useful to reverse the normal procedure. The history of North African Christianity, and especially the history of the tradition of dissent in it, is a case in point. The literature of the Donatist schism of the fourth and fifth centuries is comparat…
Olof Gigon, Die antike Kultur und das Christentum. Gütersloh
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The Imperial Administration and the Church in Byzantine Africa
There are only two moments during the Byzantine era at which the African Church emerges into something like daylight: on the morrow of the reconquest, in the middle years of the sixth century, and again almost a century later, under the emperors Heraclius and Constans II. Both in the controversies over the 'three chapters' under Justinian, and in those over monothelitism in the seventh century, the African Church took the lead in resisting what s…
Western Political Thought
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Western Political Thought : Vol. 1 : Plato to Augustine. By Christopher Morris. (London : Longmans. 1967. Pp. x + 282. Price 42s). R. A. Markus R. A. Markus Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 73, October 1968, Pages 377–378, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217816 Published: 01 October 1968
St. Augustine and the Early North African Church
Gregory the Great and a papal missionary strategy
In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People Bede includes a deservedly famous letter of Gregory I containing the Pope’s instructions to his missionaries in Kent on how to go about converting the heathen English to Christianity. The letter is addressed to Abbot Mellitus, one of the band of reinforcements sent to England from Rome in June 601. In it Mellitus is asked to instruct Augustine, established at Canterbury for the last four years, …
Christianity and dissent in Roman North Africa
The history of North African Christianity in antiquity is a peculiar blend of the local and the universal. Whether we consider the ‘catholic’ or the ‘dissenting’ traditions represented in it, we find ourselves at the intersection of two worlds. It was not only the ‘Catholicism’ of Optatus, Augustine and Aurelius and their friends and successors that linked the African Church with the Great Church across the seas. Professor Frend long ago drew att…
Other Notice
Church history and early church historians
From the beginning the Christian group took an interest in its own past. Ecclesiastical history is a specialised form of this corporate self-awareness. The fourth and fifth centuries were the period in the Christian church’s history when this form of self-awareness crystallised. The father of church history, Eusebius, was the fountainhead of a tradition of historiography which came to dominate the work of his successors. His Ecclesiastical Histor…
Christianity in the Roman World
The Cult of Icons in Sixth-Century Gaul
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