What makes a church sacred? : legal and ritual perspectives from late antiquity / Mary K. Farag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farag, Mary, 1985- author.

Series:

Transformation of the classical heritage ; 63.

Transformation of the classical heritage ; 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church buildings--History.

Church buildings.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Summary:

"If churches belong to no one, what is their purpose? Mary K. Farag persuasively demonstrates that three interest groups cared about this question in late antiquity: law-makers, Christian leaders, and wealthy lay-persons. Most of the time, their answers co-existed, sitting side-by-side like tectonic plates. Yet the plates did not always sit still, and it is events on their colliding boundaries that account for familiar Christian controversies in novel ways. What Makes a Church Sacred? argues that scholarship misunderstands well-known religious figures by ignoring the legal issues they faced. In this seminal text, Farag nuances the scholarly conversations on sacred space, gift-giving, wealth, and poverty in the late antique Mediterranean world, making use not only of Latin and Greek sources, but also Coptic and Arabic evidence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Res sacrae

Protected places

Protecting places

Dedications

Consecrations

Anniversaries

Conclusion

Appendix A : The sources of Justinian's Institutes 2.1.pr-10

Appendix B : Chronological list of Roman legislation on ecclesial property

Appendix C : Chronological list of ecclesiastical canons on ecclesial property

Appendix D : Late Antique lections for the consecratory ritual.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-299) and indexes.

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Other Format:

Online version: Farag, Mary, 1985- What makes a church sacred?

ISBN:

9780520382008

0520382005

OCLC:

1245472186