There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire Volume 39

by Michael Gaddis

Book Overview

"There is no crime for those who have Christ," claimed a fifth-century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in-depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, a unique period shaped by the marriage of Christian ideology and Roman imperial power. Drawing together...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520286243
• ISBN13: 9780520286245
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 8.8"