Religious practices and Christianization of the late antique city (4th-7th cent.) / / edited by Aude Busine.

• Superior document: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Volume 182
• TeilnehmendeR: Busine, Aude,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; Volume 182.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 pages) :; illustrations, maps.

In Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City , historians, archaeologists and historians of religion provide studies of the phenomenon of the Christianization of the Roman Empire within the context of the transformations and eventual decline of the Greco-Roman city. The eleven papers brought together here aim to describe the possible links between religious, but also political, economic and social mutations engendered by Christianity and the evolution of the antique city. Combining a multiplicity of sources and analytical approaches, this book seeks to measure the impact on the city of the progressive abandonment of traditional cults to the advantage of new Christian religious practices.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction: Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City / Aude Busine -- 2 Christianisme antique et religion civique en Occident / Claire Sotinel -- 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.) / Catherine Saliou -- 4 Holy Goals and Worldly Means. Urban Representation Elements in Church Complexes / Ine Jacobs -- 5 Public Rituals of Depaganization in Late Antiquity / Johannes Hahn -- 6 Lingering Sacredness. The Persistence of Pagan Sacredness in the Forum Romanum in Late Antiquity / Kristine Iara -- 7 A Few Thoughts on the Tituli of Equitius and Sylvester in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Subura in Rome / Michael Mulryan -- 8 Four Bases from Stratonikeia: A (Failed) Attempt to Christianize the Statue Habit / Bryan Ward-Perkins -- 9 Pagans, Christians and Jews in the Aegean Islands: The Christianization of an Island Landscape / Georgios Deligiannakis -- 10 Christian Controversy and the Transformation of Fourth-Century Constantinople / David M. Gwynn -- 11 Conclusions : De la cité rituelle à la communauté sacramentelle / Hervé Inglebert -- Index Locorum.