{"product_id":"pagans-and-christians-in-the-mediterranean-world-robin-lane-fox","title":"Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World - Robin Lane Fox","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-top: 0rem; margin-bottom: 0.9rem; box-sizing: unset; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eFrom the second century AD to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, Robin Lane Fox's Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World gives a fascinating new perspective on an extraordinary era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-top: 0rem; margin-bottom: 0.9rem; box-sizing: unset; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eThe transition from pagan to Christian in the ancient Mediterranean world was a process whose effects we still live with today. How did this monumental conversion come about? How did Christianity compare and compete with the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This scholarly work, from award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civic life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-top: 0rem; margin-bottom: 0.9rem; box-sizing: unset; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eLeading up to the time of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, the book aims to enlarge and confirm the value of contemporary evidence, some of which has only recently been discovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-top: 0rem; margin-bottom: 0.9rem; box-sizing: unset; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This brilliant book is a wholly unexpected and central contribution to its subject. What is more it is readable and rereadable, even gripping'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: unset;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e  Peter Levi, Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-top: 0rem; margin-bottom: 0.9rem; box-sizing: unset; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Important and learned'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: unset;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e  Financial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-top: 0rem; margin-bottom: 0.9rem; box-sizing: unset; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A massive and humane study...On my shelf it will rest with pride between Edward Gibbon and Peter Brown'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: unset;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e  Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-top: 0rem; margin-bottom: 0.9rem; box-sizing: unset; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'On the one hand a magisterial analysis and reconstruction of an apparently remote and alien society, on the other a detailed study of the single most significant process in our history'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: unset;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e  The Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable id=\"product-attribute-specs-table\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePages\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Pages\"\u003e800\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Publication Date\"\u003e2006\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePublisher\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Publisher\"\u003ePenguin Books Ltd.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eISBN\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"ISBN\"\u003e9780141022956\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eBinding\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Binding\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Author\"\u003eRobin Lane Fox\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Diavazo Greek Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40296279376061,"sku":"pagans christians fox","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/7574\/2397\/products\/pagans-and-christians-in-the-mediterranean-world-robin-lane-fox-6349050.jpg?v=1765465588","url":"https:\/\/checkout.diavazo.co.uk\/products\/pagans-and-christians-in-the-mediterranean-world-robin-lane-fox","provider":"Diavazo Greek Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}