Williams, Michael Stuart
(2018)
No Arians in Milan? Ambrose on the Basilica Crisis of 385/6.
Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte. Journal of ancient history, 67 (3).
pp. 346-365.
ISSN 0018-2311
Abstract
Modern explanations of the “basilica crisis” of 385/6 in Milan frequently suppose
that the city’s Christian population was divided into coherent, rival doctrinal factions. Yet
Ambrose’s own contemporary account assigns little or no role in events to any “Arian” faction
among the people of Milan, and may indeed be read as denying the existence of such a community. Ambrose instead associates his opposition with the imperial court and portrays the
dispute as between church and state. We need not take his word for it, but his evidence does
little to establish this episode as a showpiece of open doctrinal conflict.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Ambrose; Arians; Auxentius; Rhetoric; Heresy; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > Ancient Classics |
| Item ID: |
13381 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.25162/historia-2018-0013 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr. Michael Williams
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| Date Deposited: |
23 Sep 2020 14:46 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte. Journal of ancient history |
| Publisher: |
Franz Steiner Verlag |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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