Leadership & Community in Late Antique Gaul (Paper)

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-520-07895-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 368 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Transformation of the Classical Heritage

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dam, van

Van Dam, Raymond

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Raymond Van Dam is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.