A Chronicle Of The Last Pagans
Hardcover
1990 · Cambridge / London
by Chuvin, Pierre and B.A. Archer
Cambridge / London: Harvard University Press, 1990. Hardcover. VG+/VG (crinkling to spine ends. light wear to boards. tightly bound; likely unread. dustjacket has edge-wear, rubbing to corners & spine ends). grey cloth boards w/ gilt emblem & gilt spine printing. 188 pgs. pictorial & black dustjacket w/ multi-color printing. "With a sovereign command of the diverse evidence, Pierre Chuvin portrays the complex spiritual, intellectual, and political lives of professing pagans after Christianity became the state religion. While recreating the unfolding drama of their fate their gradual loss of power, exclusion from political, military, and civic positions, their assimilation, and finally their persecution he records a remarkable persistence of pagan religiosity and illustrates the fruitful interaction between Christianity and paganism. The author points to the implications of this late paganism for subsequent developments in the Byzantine Empire and the West. Chuvin's compelling account of an often forgotten world of pagan culture rescues an important aspect of our spiritual heritage and provides new understanding of Late Antiquity."--Amazon. (Inventory #: 193154)