Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul 2020th Edition by Raymond Van Dam ISBN 9780520341968 0520341968

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ISBN 10:  0520341968 

ISBN 13: 9780520341968

Author:  Raymond Van Dam

The rise of Christianity to the dominant position it held in the Middle Ages remains a paradoxical achievement. Early Christian communities in Gaul had been so restrictive that they sometimes persecuted misfits with accusations of heresy. Yet by the fifth century Gallic aristocrats were becoming bishops to enhance their prestige; and by the sixth century Christian relic cults provided the most comprehensive idiom for articulating values and conventions. To strengthen its appeal, Christianity had absorbed the ideologies of secular authority already familiar in Gallic society.

The rise of Christianity to the dominant position it held in the Middle Ages remains a paradoxical achievement. Early Christian communities in Gaul had been so restrictive that they sometimes persecuted misfits with accusations of heresy. Yet by the fifth

Table of contents: 

I. Local Authority and Central Administration

1. Introduction

2. Emperors and Bandits in Roman Gaul
     - Emperors and the Aristocracy
     - Bandits and Local Leadership
     - The Presence of the Emperor

3. The Bagaudae: Center and Periphery, A.D. 250–450

II. Christian Society in Fourth-Century Gaul and Spain
4. The Christian Society of Late Roman Gaul and Spain
  - Urban Christian Communities
  - Rhetoricians, Women, and Christianity
  - Accusations of Manichaeism
5. The Heresy of Priscillianism

III. The Assimilation of Christianity and Society
6. Martin of Tours and the Conversion of Gaul
7. The Transformation of the Aristocracy in the Fifth Century
8. Sidonius and the Rise of Relic Cults

IV. The Cult of Relics in Sixth-Century Merovingian Gaul
9. Early Merovingian Gaul: The World of Gregory of Tours
10. Relic Cults, Literary Culture, and the Aristocracy
11. Sacred Space: The Cult and Church of St. Martin at Tours
12. Illness, Healing, and Relic Cults
13. Sacred Time: Liturgy and the Christianization of Time

Epilogue
14. The Fates of Ausonius and Paulinus of Nola

Select Editions of Ancient Authors
Bibliography
Index

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