Readers can meet ghosts, spirits of the dead, undiscovered mysterious religious ceremonies, martyrs as stars of the Late Antique period, Early Christian finds from hidden magazines and hidden mysteries of the burial chambers of the world heritage site of Sopianae, northern cemetery, and last but not least the pagan and Christian human fates and the multicultural diversity of various identities on these pages.
The chapters of this book containing Christian archaeological, patristic and Church historical studies, are collected in a new supplement volume of Specimina Nova and Thesaurus Historiae Ecclesiasticae series with minor stylistic modifications of the original german and english texts when it was necessary to understand them better. In these papers I tried to represent various kinds of pagan-Christian relationships, network systems and interactions that are so unique in many ways. The papers presented in this volume were written between 2004 and 2017. There are two new studies in addition, published only in this volume. All these writings were originally written and published in the scholarly workshops of the University of Pécs, the University of Debrecen and the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
Author(s): Levente Nagy
Series: Thesaurus Historiae Ecclesiasticae in Universitate Quinqueecclesiensi, 8
Publisher: University of Pécs
Year: 2019
Language: English, German
Pages: 198
Preface – Vorwort 7
Introduction – Einführung 9
I. Die Typen von Totengeistern in der "De anima" von Tertullian und in der frühkaiserzeitlichen Literatur 13
II. Erscheinungsbild und Realität: Menschenopfer, Wahrsagung, Magie, Totenbeschwörung in den Mithras-Mysterien? 35
III. 'Mithram esse coronam suam': Tertullian und die Einweihung des miles in den Mithras-Mysterien 49
IV. Cities, Martyrs and Relics in Pannonia. Discovering the Topography of Four Passion Stories 69
V. Early Christianity in Hungary: a New Research Project 79
VI. Jenseitsvorstellungen und ihre Interpretationsprobleme im spätrömischen - früchristlichen Gräberfeld von Sopianae/Pécs 95
VII. Early Christian Archaeology in Hungary between 2010 and 2016 109
VIII. Aspects of 4th Century Christian Identity in Late Roman Province Valer 115
IX. The methodological problems of Christianization as a historical process in the 3rd-5th century A.D. Pannonia. Can the written and archaeological sources be considered together? 121
Abbrevations, Sources, Bibliography 133
Papers republished in this volume with permission of the publishers – Die in diesem Band wieder publizierte Abhandlungen mit der Genehmigung der Herausgeber 187
Indices 189
Volumes published in the series of the Center for Ecclesiastical Studies 'Thesaurus Historiae Ecclesiasticae in Universitate Quinqueecclesiensi' 197
