The Emperor Julian
by Robert Browning
ISBN: 0297770292
ISBN-13: 9780297770299
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Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Published date: 1975
Pages: 256
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THE EMPORER JULIAN
BROWNING, ROBERT:
1977 Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. 256 page hardback reprint with illustrations on the life of the Greek intellectual who ruled the Roman Empire. VG in VG dust jacket. ISBN: 0 297 77029 2 ( more information)
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The Emperor Julian
Browning, Robert
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977. Xii + 256pp, including notes, index &c.; plates & maps; original cloth. A clean & tight copy; neat ownership inscription; slight browning to edges of text block. Dustwrapper has light wear including short tear at one corner.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. ( more information)
Offered by Weatherley's Bookstalls (United Kingdom)
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THE EMPEROR JULIAN
Browning, Robert
Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. . Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Light soiling to textblock. The first 20 pages are creased but with no loss to text else VG. Adhesives stain to front free-page. ; 256 pages; Julian is called by Christians "The Apostate" because they believe he converted from Christianity to Paganism. He himself, as attested to in private letters between him and the Rhetorician Libanius, had Christianity forced on him as a child by his cousin Constantius II, who was a zealot Christian and would have not tolerated a pagan relative, but Julian had never really accepted any religion until his reading of the Homeric poems, some of the most important texts for the Greek religion. After this conversion to Hellenism he devoted his life to protecting and restoring the fame and security of this more ancient tradition as well as other religious traditions such as Judaism from Christian persecution. After gaining the purple, Julian started a religious reformation of the state, which, in his intentions, was to give back its lost strength to the Roman State. He supported the restoration of the old Roman faith, based on polytheism. Julian reduced the influence of Christian bishops in public offices. The lands taken by the Church were to be returned to their original owners, and the bishops lost the privilege to travel for free, at expenses of the State. . ( more information)
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