The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
Edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter
Abstract
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies responds to and celebrates the explosion of research in this inter-disciplinary field over recent decades. As a one-volume reference work, it provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100–600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in western and eastern late antiquity. The book is thematically arranged to encompass history, literature, thought, practices, and material culture. It contains authoritative and up-to-date surveys of current thinking and research in the various sub-specialties of early Christian studies, written by leading figures in the discipline. The articles orientate readers to a given topic, as well as to the trajectory of research developments over the past 30–50 years within the scholarship itself. Guidance for future research is also given. Each article points the reader towards relevant forms of extant evidence (texts, documents, or examples of material culture), as well as to the appropriate research tools available for the area.
Keywords:
early Christianity,
100–600 AD,
geographical area,
early church,
late antiquity,
history,
literature,
thought,
practices,
material culture
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Sep 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199271566
- Published online:
- Sep 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199271566.001.0001
Editors
Susan Ashbrook Harvey,
editor
Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI
David G. Hunter,
editor
David G. Hunter is Cottrill—Rolfes Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
