Books written by Philip Rousseau

  • The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography
    The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography

    The essays in this provocative collection exemplify the innovations that have characterized the relatively new field of late ancient studies.

  • The Early Christian Centuries
    The Early Christian Centuries

    ... Derek Krueger, D.J. Kyrtatis, Hans Peter L'Orange, Peter Lampe, Henri Lavagne, George Lawless, Bentley Layton, ... Elaine Pagels, Andrew Palmer, Evelyne Patlagean, Birger Pearson, Paul Petit, Stanley E. Porter, Aline Pourkier, ...

  • Basil of Caesarea
    Basil of Caesarea

    Wagner , M. Monica , tr . Basil of Caesarea , Ascetical Works . ... In The Making of Orthodoxy , edited by Williams , pp . 157–72 . ... Young , Frances M. From Nicaea to Chalcedon : A Guide to the Literature and Its Background .

  • A Companion to Late Antiquity
    A Companion to Late Antiquity

    Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity – from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean Comprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of ...

  • The Early Christian Centuries
    The Early Christian Centuries

    Paying the greatest attention to the 'inner' components of Christian life, the resulting story captures fully the major figures: Paul, the gospel writers, the early 'apologists', and the great figures of the 'patristic' age, including the ...

  • A Companion to Late Antiquity
    A Companion to Late Antiquity

    Henning, Dirk (1999), Periclitans res publica: Kaisertum undEliten in der Krise des weströmischen Reiches 454/5–493 n. Chr., Stuttgart, Steiner. Hennings, Ralph (1994), Der Briefwechsel zwischen Augustinus und Hieronymus und ihr Streit ...

  • Basil of Caesarea
    Basil of Caesarea

    This book takes another long stride towards what all Rousseau's earlier work has aimed at—an undogmatic and sympathetic understanding of the fourth-century Church, and the presentation of its great spiritual leaders to new, often ...

  • Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian
    Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian

    Rousseau presents a survey of asceticism in the western church until about 400, including a selective study of Jerome, and then, moving into the fifth century.

  • Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity
    Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity

    How classical narrative models were adapted as early Christian culture took shape and developed.