Jonathan Stutz : Stasis. Crowd Violence and Religious-Political Discourses in Late Antiquity , Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 137, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2024, X + 254 pp., ISBN 978-3-1616-2637-1, € 89,–.

Key Points

• To investigate the relationship between crowd violence and religious-political discourses in late antiquity.
• Analysis of historical texts and narratives
• Examination of socio-political contexts
• Comparative approach to crowd behavior and discourse
• Identified key factors linking crowd violence to religious motivations
• Highlighted the role of political discourse in shaping public responses to violence
• Demonstrated varying impacts of these discourses across different regions in late antiquity