Maijastina Kahlos
Biographic Data
| ID | 5627680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maijastina Kahlos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maijastina |
| FAMILY NAME | Kahlos |
| SIGNATURE | KAHLOS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2427-9897 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World
In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it meant to be Roman in Late Antiquity? Explores how Roman and post-Roman authors used the figure of the ‘barbarian’ to negotiate shifting religious, cultural, and political identities Highlights the central role of religious affiliation, especially the opposition between Nicene orthodoxy and so-called heretical barbarian Christianity, in …
“And what an Age!”
Article “And what an Age!”: Peter Brown and Magical Late Antiquity was published on October 1, 2023 in the journal Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity (volume 27, issue 2)
Late Roman Ideas of Ethnicity and Enslavement
In this way, the fourth-century philosopher Bishop Synesius of Cyrene argued that every Roman household, even the most modest, had Gothic slaves. In this chapter, I examine how late antique writers, Synesius among them, dealt with the enslavement of foreigners. Foreigners here refer to non-Roman and non-Greek people outside the frontiers of the Roman Empire, conventionally called ‘barbarians’. War on the frontiers stimulated commerce in humans – …
Hendrik Wagner, Das spätantike Rom und die stadtrömische Senatsaristokratie (395–455 n. Chr.). Eine althistorisch-archäologische Untersuchung. (Millennium-Studien, Bd. 91.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2…
Article Hendrik Wagner, Das spätantike Rom und die stadtrömische Senatsaristokratie (395–455 n. Chr.). Eine althistorisch-archäologische Untersuchung. (Millennium-Studien, Bd. 91.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2021 was published on August 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 315, issue 1)
Citizens and the Criteria for Recognition in the Roman Empire
According to one of the foundational myths of the ancient Romans, Romulus made the city of Rome an asylum for refugees and welcomed all sorts of newcomers inside its walls. This ethos of asylum is even more remarkable when it is compared with the foundational myths of many Greek poleis, or city-states, such as the myth of the autochthonous origin of Athenians. Despite the ethos of asylum and eloquent orators who cherished the idea of cosmopolitan…
Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE
Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean basin and Europe during a period of profound transformation. It focuses on socially marginal areas and individuals on an unprecedented scale. Written by an international team of scholars, the volume establishes that late ancient slavery is a complex and polymor…
Bishops and People
The religiosity of late antique and early medieval communities in the Mediterranean world has been vigorously examined and debated. This religious life has been called (among many other terms) ‘popular Christianity,’ ‘local Christianity,’ the ‘second church,’ ‘Religion zweiter Ordnung,’ and ‘the third paganism.’ In my article, I analyse late antique religious life from the viewpoint of encounters—between the ideals of the ecclesiastical elite and…
Recognition and Religion
Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350-450
Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity reconsiders the religious history of the late Roman Empire, focusing on the shifting position of dissenting religious groups. The groups under consideration are non-Christians (‘pagans’) and deviant Christians (‘heretics’). The period from the mid-fourth century until the mid-fifth century ce witnessed a significant transformation of late Roman society and a gradual shift from the world of polytheistic religion…
Spaces in Late Antiquity
Divine Anger and Divine Favour
Divine Anger and Favour in the Roman traditionSeveral Roman writers regarded the security and prosperity of their communities, as well as the order of the entire universe, as connected with the scrupulous fulfilment of religious duties. 2 This order, called pax deorum, included peace and harmony in society as well as in the universe.Natural catastrophes and public disasters were explained as caused by divine anger that was provoked by either reli…
Pagan-Christian Debates over the Interpretation of Texts in Late Antiquity
This article discusses ancient debates between Christian and polytheist writers over the allegorical interpretations of sacred texts. These disputes are set in the wider context of the “the battles of the books” in Late Antiquity. Many similarities and continuities are shown in the interpretative approaches to sacred texts, even though the Christian and polytheist writers themselves often tried to downplay these similarities and to construe diffe…
The Faces of the Other
The foundations of European civilization as we know it today were laid in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. "The faces of the other: Religious rivalry and ethnic encounters" in the Later Roman World traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or ethnic otherness in modern western culture. It aims at deepening the historical understanding of attitudes towards otherness as well as cultural and religious conflicts in …
Forbearance and Compulsion
"Most surveys of religious tolerance and intolerance start from the medieval and early modern period, either passing over or making brief mention of discussions of religious moderation and coercion in Greco-roman antiquity. Here Maijastina Kahlos widens the historical perspective to encompass late antiquity, examining ancient discussions of religious moderation and coercion in their historical contexts. The relations and interactions between vari…
Debate and Dialogue
This book explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Such oppositions, for example Christians - pagans; truth - falsehood; the one true god - the multitude of demons; the right religion - superstition, served to create and reinforce the Christian self-identity. The author examines how the Christian argumentation against pagans was intertwined with…
Fabia Aconia Paulina and the Death of Praetextatus – Rhetoric and Ideals in Late Antiquity (CIL VI 1779)
No prominent works on this page.
Fabia Aconia Paulina and the Death of Praetextatus – Rhetoric and Ideals in Late Antiquity (CIL VI 1779)
Debate and Dialogue
This book explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Such oppositions, for example Christians - pagans; truth - falsehood; the one true god - the multitude of demons; the right religion - superstition, served to create and reinforce the Christian self-identity. The author examines how the Christian argumentation against pagans was intertwined with…
Forbearance and Compulsion
"Most surveys of religious tolerance and intolerance start from the medieval and early modern period, either passing over or making brief mention of discussions of religious moderation and coercion in Greco-roman antiquity. Here Maijastina Kahlos widens the historical perspective to encompass late antiquity, examining ancient discussions of religious moderation and coercion in their historical contexts. The relations and interactions between vari…
The Faces of the Other
The foundations of European civilization as we know it today were laid in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. "The faces of the other: Religious rivalry and ethnic encounters" in the Later Roman World traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or ethnic otherness in modern western culture. It aims at deepening the historical understanding of attitudes towards otherness as well as cultural and religious conflicts in …
Pagan-Christian Debates over the Interpretation of Texts in Late Antiquity
This article discusses ancient debates between Christian and polytheist writers over the allegorical interpretations of sacred texts. These disputes are set in the wider context of the “the battles of the books” in Late Antiquity. Many similarities and continuities are shown in the interpretative approaches to sacred texts, even though the Christian and polytheist writers themselves often tried to downplay these similarities and to construe diffe…
Divine Anger and Divine Favour
Divine Anger and Favour in the Roman traditionSeveral Roman writers regarded the security and prosperity of their communities, as well as the order of the entire universe, as connected with the scrupulous fulfilment of religious duties. 2 This order, called pax deorum, included peace and harmony in society as well as in the universe.Natural catastrophes and public disasters were explained as caused by divine anger that was provoked by either reli…
Spaces in Late Antiquity
Recognition and Religion
Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350-450
Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity reconsiders the religious history of the late Roman Empire, focusing on the shifting position of dissenting religious groups. The groups under consideration are non-Christians (‘pagans’) and deviant Christians (‘heretics’). The period from the mid-fourth century until the mid-fifth century ce witnessed a significant transformation of late Roman society and a gradual shift from the world of polytheistic religion…
Bishops and People
The religiosity of late antique and early medieval communities in the Mediterranean world has been vigorously examined and debated. This religious life has been called (among many other terms) ‘popular Christianity,’ ‘local Christianity,’ the ‘second church,’ ‘Religion zweiter Ordnung,’ and ‘the third paganism.’ In my article, I analyse late antique religious life from the viewpoint of encounters—between the ideals of the ecclesiastical elite and…
Late Roman Ideas of Ethnicity and Enslavement
In this way, the fourth-century philosopher Bishop Synesius of Cyrene argued that every Roman household, even the most modest, had Gothic slaves. In this chapter, I examine how late antique writers, Synesius among them, dealt with the enslavement of foreigners. Foreigners here refer to non-Roman and non-Greek people outside the frontiers of the Roman Empire, conventionally called ‘barbarians’. War on the frontiers stimulated commerce in humans – …
Hendrik Wagner, Das spätantike Rom und die stadtrömische Senatsaristokratie (395–455 n. Chr.). Eine althistorisch-archäologische Untersuchung. (Millennium-Studien, Bd. 91.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2…
Article Hendrik Wagner, Das spätantike Rom und die stadtrömische Senatsaristokratie (395–455 n. Chr.). Eine althistorisch-archäologische Untersuchung. (Millennium-Studien, Bd. 91.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2021 was published on August 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 315, issue 1)
Citizens and the Criteria for Recognition in the Roman Empire
According to one of the foundational myths of the ancient Romans, Romulus made the city of Rome an asylum for refugees and welcomed all sorts of newcomers inside its walls. This ethos of asylum is even more remarkable when it is compared with the foundational myths of many Greek poleis, or city-states, such as the myth of the autochthonous origin of Athenians. Despite the ethos of asylum and eloquent orators who cherished the idea of cosmopolitan…
Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE
Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean basin and Europe during a period of profound transformation. It focuses on socially marginal areas and individuals on an unprecedented scale. Written by an international team of scholars, the volume establishes that late ancient slavery is a complex and polymor…
“And what an Age!”
Article “And what an Age!”: Peter Brown and Magical Late Antiquity was published on October 1, 2023 in the journal Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity (volume 27, issue 2)
Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World
In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it meant to be Roman in Late Antiquity? Explores how Roman and post-Roman authors used the figure of the ‘barbarian’ to negotiate shifting religious, cultural, and political identities Highlights the central role of religious affiliation, especially the opposition between Nicene orthodoxy and so-called heretical barbarian Christianity, in …
History (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Christianity (5 works) · Late Antiquity (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Antique (4 works)