![]() ![]() While Late Antique scholarship, largely influenced by Peter Brown, has concentrated on the fight against demons by ascetics in a non-urban environment, beyond the control of ecclesiastical institutions, the phenomenon of spiritual warfare against the demonic in the city has been neglected in historiography due to scholars' inclination to imagine the Late Antique city ![]() Hence, through diabolizing others' forms of ritual and rhetoric, bishops gained authority and control in and over the Late Antique city. The author bases her argument on the assumption that urban rituals of engagement with demons were different from those performed outside the city, e.g. City of Demons attempts "a cultural history of urban demonologies" in the post-Constantinian city (6) to show that the demonization of religious opponents performed by ecclesiastical leaders, in both the discursive and ritual spheres, was a powerful strategy for urban Christianization in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity. ´ benedek lang Budapest University of Technology and Economics dayna s. Kalleres.Ĭases, and thus been given a broad insight into the history of early modern dissimulation as such. Kalleres (review) City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity by Dayna S. City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity by Dayna S. ![]()
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