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Ste. Croix (Sainte Croix) was born on 8 February 1910 in Portuguese Macau, and baptised in St John's Cathedral, Hong Kong. [2][3] His parents were also born in China to British expatriates. His father, Ernest Henry de Ste Croix, who died when he was four, was an official in the Chinese Customs. Their Huguenot ancestors fled to Jersey during the ...
Dec 28, 2017 · G. E. M. de Ste. Croix was a Marxist, atheist, feminist historian of the ancient Greek and Roman world who came to ancient history in middle age and produced important studies of the role of class and the oppression of the poor throughout ancient Greek and later history.
10 G. E. M. de Ste. Croix Pierre-Philippe Rey have operated to a high degree within a Marxist tradition, which they have developed in various ways. Several French ancient historians, too, have made much use of Marxist concepts, especially the fundamental one of classes and class conflict, which will be the main theme of the latter part of this ...
Aug 29, 2019 · The foundational work here was done by G. E. M de Ste. Croix, who argued that not only was voluntary martyrdom common among early orthodox Christians but that it was a key factor in why they were persecuted by the Romans. 2 Ste. Croix took issue with scholars such as Henry Chadwick and Édmund Le Blant, who claimed that, apart from members of heretical sects, the early Christians did not ...
- Alan Vincelette
- 2019
1 These are particular points in a much wider reach of work that included the class struggle in the ‘Greek World’, which for Ste. Croix stretched from the 7th century BCE to the 6th century CE, the nature of Athenian democracy, of which Ste. Croix was a champion, the causes of the Peloponnesian War, and the matters of martyrdom, persecution and early church councils (Ste. Croix Citation ...
- Roland Boer
- 2011
Sep 28, 2006 · Abstract. The volume presents in seven chapters papers on early Christian topics by Geoffrey de Ste. Croix. Three of the chapters include papers which have previously been published and are widely accepted as classic studies, while the other four now appear in print for the first time – though they have already proved influential as a result of presentation at seminars and circulation in ...
By G.E.M. DE STE. CROIX History as we know it (I mean historiography, the writing of history) may in a very real sense be said to have been invented by the Greeks, and it was a creation of the fifth century B.C. The earliest historian whose works we possess-indeed, the earliest of all historians in the proper sense-is Herodotus of Halicarnassus,
