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The making of a Christian aristocracy : social and religious change in the western Roman Empire / Michele Renee Salzman.
LIBRA BR195.C6 S35 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salzman, Michele Renee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian converts--Rome.
- Christian converts.
- Aristocracy (Social class)--Religious life--Rome.
- Aristocracy (Social class).
- Christian sociology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Christian sociology.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 354 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- What did it take to cause the Roman aristocracy to turn to Christianity, changing centuries-old beliefs and religious traditions? Michele Salzman takes a fresh approach to this much-debated question. Focusing on a sampling of individual aristocratic men and women as well as on writings and archeological evidence, she brings new understanding to the process by which pagan aristocrats became Christian, and Christianity became aristocratic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-341) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674006410
- OCLC:
- 47745936
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