Local Authority and Central Administration -- Emperors and Bandits in Roman Gaul -- Emperors and the Aristocracy -- Bandits and Local Leadership -- The Presence of the Emperor -- The Bagaudae: Center and Periphery, A.D. 250-450 -- Christian Society in Fourth-Century Gaul and Spain -- The Christian Society of Late Roman Gaul and Spain -- Urban Christian Communities -- Rhetoricians, Women, and Christianity -- Accusations of Manichaeism -- The Heresy of Priscillianism -- The Assimilation of Christianity and Society -- Martin of Tours and the Conversion of Gaul -- The Transformation of the Aristocracy in the Fifth Century -- Sidonius and the Rise of Relic Cults -- The Cult of Relics in Sixth-Century Merovingian Gaul -- Early Merovingian Gaul: The World of Gregory of Tours -- Relic Cults, Literary Culture, and the Aristocracy -- Sacred Space: The Cult and Church of St. Martin at Tours -- Illness, Healing, and Relic Cults -- Sacred Time: Liturgy and the Christianization of Time -- The Fates of Ausonius and Paulinus of Nola
Analysis
France, B.C.58-A.D.511
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-340) and index