The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 Ce)

The Anchors of the Fisherman
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42567-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 657 g

Reihe: Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation

The apostle Peter gradually became one of the most famous figures of the ancient world. His almost undisputed reputation made the disciple an exquisite anchor by which new practices within and outside the Church could be established, including innovations in fields as diverse as architecture, art, cult, epigraphy, liturgy, poetry and politics. This interdisciplinary volume inquires the way in which the figure of Peter functioned as an anchor for various people from different periods and geographical areas. The concept of Anchoring Innovation is used to investigate the history of the reception of the apostle Peter from the first century up to Charlemagne, revealing as much about Peter as about the context in which this reception took place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dijkstra, Roald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Ineke Sluiter

Preface

Roald Dijkstra

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Contributors

part 1: Anchoring the Apostle: the Volume and Its Concept

1 Peter, Popes, Politics and More: the Apostle as Anchor

Roald Dijkstra

2 Ruling through Religion? Innovation and Tradition in Roman Imperial Representation

Olivier Hekster

part 2: Anchoring the Authority of Peter

3 From Petrus to Pontifex Maximus

John R. Curran

4 The Multiple Meanings of Papal Inscriptions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Thomas F. X. Noble

5 Attitudes to Jewish and Roman Power in the Gospel and Acts of Peter

Markus Bockmuehl

6 Peter, the Visionary before the Pope: Early Receptions of the Apostle in Marginal Communities

Régis Burnet

part 3: Anchoring Peter in Art and Poetry

7 The Role of Peter in Early Christian Art: Images from the 4th to the 6th Century

Jutta Dresken-Weiland

8 The Death of Peter: Anchoring an Image in the Context of Late Antique Representations of Martyrdom

Markus Löx

9 Romulus and Peter: Remembering and Reconfiguring Rome’s Foundation in Late Antiquity

Mark Humphries

10 Sedulius’ Peter: Intention and Authority in the Paschale carmen

Carl P. E. Springer

part 4: Anchoring the Cult of Peter

11 Peter without Paul: Aspects of the Primordial Role of Simon Peter in an Early Christian Context

Annewies van den Hoek

12 The Architectural Appropriation of the Apostle Peter by the Early Christian Popes

Kristina Friedrichs

13 The Cult of Peter and the Development of Martyr Cult in Rome. The Origins of the Presentation of Peter and Paul as Martyrs

Alan Thacker

14 Anchoring the Rock: the Latin Liturgical Cult of Peter in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Els Rose

General Bibliography

Index locorum

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roald Dijkstra, Ph.D. (2014), Radboud University Nijmegen, is postdoctoral assistant at KU Leuven. He co-authored Peter in Rome about the early Roman reception of the apostle (Garant, 2019) and published The Apostles in Early Christian Art and Poetry (Brill, 2016).

Contributors are: Régis Burnet, John R. Curran, Roald Dijkstra, Jutta Dresken-Weiland, Kristina Friedrichs, Olivier Hekster, Annewies van den Hoek, Mark Humphries, Markus Löx, Thomas F. X. Noble, Els Rose, Carl P. E. Springer, Alan Thacker.