The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES Conflicts between Christians Religious affairs could frequently be turbulent. In 391 Theophi ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY in 553–4. In the latter case, the proceedings lasted for many months, for most of whic ...

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES modifi cation of the decrees of Chalcedon, he succeeded only in offending the west. Some ind ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY representative on earth, and this idea was to become the basis of Byzantine political ...

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES foundation of a convent for reformed prostitutes known as ‘Repentance’,^50 and she was rever ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY change in personal faith, even here individual belief is often hard to detect beneath ...

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES In considering the secular literature (and indeed art) of the period it is hard to draw the ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY legislation should also be seen in relation to the traditions of previous impe- rial l ...

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES sources to indicate that pagan practice still continued. This will have been more the case i ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY supposedly between Christians and Jews, had as their dramatic aim the dis- comfi ture ...

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES following the pattern laid down in the narrative of the temptations of Antony, directing mor ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY example is the sixth-century ascetic known as Symeon the Holy Fool, who according to h ...

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES phenomenon, even though the ascetic idea of retirement from the world might make a rural or ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY the ‘desert’ and the ‘city’ stood for individual spirituality and external ties respec ...

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES of ‘Hellenic medicine’. The various collections of miracle stories also engaged in sectarian ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY ostentation, and a considerable literature built up which attempted to soften the Gosp ...

CHRISTIANIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES In the east, the church, while itself profi ting from the growing prosperity of the fi fth c ...

4 LATE ROMAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY Understanding the late Roman economy presents a particular challenge. Cer- tain topics, such as ...

LATE ROMAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY apply to the period from Diocletian onwards. However, much of the evidence adduced is impressioni ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY It is the contribution of archaeology above all which has led historians to question t ...