Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome
Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome

Author: Clifford Ando

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9783515088541

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Law is a particularly fruitful means by which to investigate the relationship between religion and state. It is the mechanism by which the Roman state and its European successors have regulated religion, in the twin actions of constraining religious institutions to particular social spaces and of releasing control over such spaces to those orders. This volume analyses the relationship from the late Republic to the final codification of Roman law in Justinian's Constantinople.

Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy
Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy

Author: Susan Wessel

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004-10-28

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0199268460

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Susan Wessel recounts the historical and cultural process by which Cyril of Alexandria was elevated to canonical status while his opponent, Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, was turned into a heretic. She argues that it was Cyril's mastery of rhetoric and politics alike which ensured his victory over his adversary.