id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ms35t725k60 Mark Roosien The Liturgical Commemoration of Earthquakes in Late Antique Constantinople: At the Intersection of Ritual, Environment, and Empire 2018 .txt text/plain 357 15 39 Prior to the practice of commemorating earthquakes liturgically, the late-fourth and early-fifth century preachers Severian of Gabala and John Chrysostom drew from this ritual repertoire to make theological sense of Constantinopolitan earthquakes. Those dedicated to augmenting Constantinople's political and ecclesiastical power disputed the theology of earthquakes as signs of divine wrath, and reframed local earthquakes as signs of divine blessing upon the city and its ambitions. cache/ms35t725k60.txt txt/ms35t725k60.txt