Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity

"I know of no other book like this. Lim is thoroughly grounded in a wide variety of primary sources; cognizant of scholarly debates in contemporary literature and conversant with many recent works on sociology, anthropology and theory. The approach is original."--Elizabeth Clark, Duke University "Original treatment of rechercheacute; material in an unusual and stimulating manner. Specialists will welcome the novelty while others may follow with profit Lim's argument as a route of access into normally inaccessible territory."--Maud Gleason, Stanford UniversityLim, Richard is the author of 'Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity', published 1995 under ISBN 9780520085770 and ISBN 0520085779.