Festivals in the Greek East: From the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era by Fritz Graf (review)

• Autores: Jacob A. Latham
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 2, 2018, págs. 326-327
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • If one expands the rather exiguous evidence to include elements of consular inaugurations, then it seems that the festival endured in some form or another into the twelfth century in Constantinople, while a council of Tours in 567 and Isidore of Seville note its continued celebration. [...]the Roman city festivals that survived often had neutral names and were granted imperial legal sanction, once sacrifice was excised, which blunted episcopal criticism of these now religiously neutral ceremonies. [...]Festivals in the Greek East offers a valuable sampling of ancient and medieval sources that shed light on the adaptation of classical festival culture in a Christianizing world.