Church and Society in Late Antique Italy and Beyond

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Church and Society in Late Antique
Italy and Beyond
Claire Sotinel, Université Paris Est-Créteil, France
Variorum Collected Studies
The papers presented here explore the interactions between clerics
Contents: Foreword; Part 1 Three Chapters: Pontifical authority and
and the society in which Christian churches put down roots in
imperial power in the reign of Justinian: pope Virgilius; Arator, un
Late Antiquity. Some of these complex processes involved in the
poète au service de la politique du pape Vigile?; Vigilius in the Liber
christianization of the Late Roman world, form the theme of the
Pontificalis: a memory lost, or manipulated?; Le rôle des expertises
first three sections. The essays in these sections examine the Three
dans les débats théologiques du VIe siècle; Council, emperor and
Chapters controversy and the participation of lay and clerical
bishops: authority and orthodoxy in the 3 Chapters controversy. Part
protagonists in it, the social standing of Italian bishops (including their
2 Bishops and Elites in Late Roman Italy: Le recrutement des évêques
use of lay personnel and their economic impact) and a comparison of
en Italie aux IVe and Ve siècles. essai d’ enquête prosopographique.
pagan and Christian places of worship. The essays included in the last
The bishop’s men: episcopal power in the city; IThe bishops of Italy
section deal with communication in Late Antiquity. They present the
in late antique society: a new elite?; The Christian gift and its impact
first results of a long-term project on the changing role of information
in late antiquity. Part 3 Sacred Places in the Late Roman Empire: Locus
during the last centuries of the Roman world. Eight papers in the
orationis ou domus Dei? Le témoignage de Zénon de Vérone sur
volume are published in English for the first time.
l’évolution des églises (tractatus II, 6); The end of pagan holy places in
the West: problems and method; Places of Christian worship and their
sacralization in late antiquity; Chronologie, topographie, histoire:
quelques hypothèses sur S. Felix in Pincis, église disparue. Part 4
Organization and Communication in Ancient Christianity: La circulation
de l’information dans les églises; The Church in the Roman Empire:
changes without reform and reforms without change; How were
bishops informed? Information transmission across the Adriatic Sea in
late antiquity; Index.
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October 2010
340 pages
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