Description: Acts of the Early Church Councils : Production and Character, Hardcover by Graumann, Thomas, ISBN 0198868170, ISBN-13 9780198868170, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The Acts of Early Church Councils Acts examines the acts of ancient church councils as the objects of textual practices, in their editorial shaping, and in their material conditions. It traces the processes of their production, starting from the recording of spoken interventions during a
meeting, to the preparation of minutes of individual sessions, to their collection into larger units, their storage and the earliest attempts at their dissemination.
Thomas Graumann demonstrates that the preparation of paperwork is central for the bishops self-presentation and the projection of prevailing conciliar ideologies. The councils aspirations to legitimacy and authority before real and imagined audiences of the wider church and the empire, and for
posterity, fundamentally reside in the relevant textual and bureaucratic processes. Council leaders and administrators also scrutinized and inspected documents and records of previous occasions. From the evidence of such examinations the volume further reconstructs the textual and physical
characteristics of ancient conciliar documents and explores the criteria of their assessment. Reading strategies prompted by the features observed from material textual objects handled in council, and the opportunities and limits afforded by the techniques of writing-up conciliar business are
analysed. Papyrological evidence and contemporary legal regulations are used to contextualise these efforts. Th thus offers a unique assessment of the production processes, character and the material conditions of council acts that must be the foundation for any historical and theological
research into the councils of the ancient church.
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Book Title: Acts of the Early Church Councils : Production and Character
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Acts of Early Church Councils Acts : Production and Character
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: General, Christianity / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.7 Oz
Subject Area: Religion
Author: Thomas Graumann
Item Length: 9.4 in
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
