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Title Religious practices and Christianization of the late antique city (4th-7th cent.) / edited by Aude Busine
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 243 pages) : illustrations
Series Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; volume 182
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 182.
Contents List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction: Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City; Chapter 2 Christianisme antique et religion civique en Occident; Chapter 3 Les lieux du polythéisme dans l'espace urbain et le paysage mémoriel d'Antioche-sur-l'Oronte, de Libanios à Malalas (ive-vie s.); Chapter 4 Holy Goals and Worldly Means. Urban Representation Elements in Church Complexes; Chapter 5 Public Rituals of Depaganization in Late Antiquity; Chapter 6 Lingering Sacredness. The Persistence of Pagan Sacredness in the Forum Romanum in Late Antiquity
Chapter 7 A Few Thoughts on the Tituli of Equitius and Sylvester in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Subura in RomeChapter 8 Four Bases from Stratonikeia: A (Failed) Attempt to Christianize the Statue Habit; Chapter 9 Pagans, Christians and Jews in the Aegean Islands: The Christianization of an Island Landscape; Chapter 10 Christian Controversy and the Transformation of Fourth-Century Constantinople; Chapter 11 Conclusions : De la cité rituelle à la communauté sacramentelle; Index Locorum
Summary Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City studies the phenomenon of the Christianization of the Roman Empire within the context of the transformations and eventual decline of the Greco-Roman city
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Some text in French
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Subject Religious life -- History -- To 1500
Cities and towns -- Religious aspects.
Christianity -- Influence
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
RELIGION -- Essays.
RELIGION -- Reference.
Christianity -- Influence
Cities and towns -- Religious aspects
Religious life
Kerstening.
Steden.
Late oudheid.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Busine, Aude, editor.
ISBN 9789004299047
9004299041