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 eleve...

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.