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- W168103645 abstract "Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian the Apostate. Edited by Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher. Cardiff: The Classical Press of Wales, 2012. xxi + 384 pp. $110.00 (cloth).It is always beneficial to hear ones theology described by an outsider looking in-assuming that the outsider is well enough acquainted with it to provide an informed critique. In the period of the early church, the best example of this phenomenon is found with the Emperor Julian (332-363), a pagan convert who had been educated as a (non-Nicene) Christian. Julians cousin Constantius II engineered the death of Julians father and many of his relatives, but allowed the boy Julian to live as insurance should he not produce an heir. Julian in turn later engineered his acclamation as Augustus by troops in Gaul, which was followed by Constantius s death by illness. Once emperor, Julian sought to undo the Christianization that the empire had experienced under his uncle Constantine, and heavily supported this campaign in his writings, which run to three volumes in the Loeb edition.Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher have assembled a volume to aid scholarly understanding of Julian, with a collection of essays based on a conference held in Cardiff in 2009. Although composed by a number of hands, Emperor and Author possesses both the breadth and depth that scholars approaching Julian require, including such infrequently-treated topics as art history, numismatics, and inscriptions. There is a great need for such a work to aid understanding of Julian for English readers, as recent biographies have suffered from extreme brevity or have been written in a popular form, while scholarly monographs on Julian have tended to focus on particular issues or are now difficult to find, like Jean Bouffartigue s out-of-print 1992 volume.In a day of woeful publishing standards, this volume is beautifully produced, with burgundy boards matched by the now familiar Classical Press of Wales burgundy-and-white jacket, and a Smyth-sewn binding that allows the book to lay open flat. The editing and layout are excellent, marred only slightly by the reflective glossy paper. The various chapters possess a coherent unity, both because of the tight thematic organization of the book and the introductory and concluding chapters that tie things together nicelyWhile all nineteen individual chapters meet a very high standard, considerations of space dictate only detailing the high points. Hal Drake offers a clever review of Julian s second self-referential panegyric to Constantius as parody, though concluding that it contains the germ of his future religious program, the Hellenic church with a god-beloved priest-king at its head. …" @default.
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