The Making of Human Dignity in Christian Antiquity

The book examines the late ancient history of one pivotal concept of contemporary culture, that of human dignity, with the view to identifying the moment in history when European culture worked out a systematic category for human axiological status. Whereas some studies concentrate on the notion of...

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Autor principal: Jadwiga Guerrero van der Meijden
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Publicado: Brill | Schöningh 2024
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