Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul
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Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul

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Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul

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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

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520078956
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780520341968
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS
  5. PREFACE
  6. ABBREVIATIONS
  7. CHAPTER 1 Introduction
  8. I Local Authority and Central Administration
  9. CHAPTER 2 Emperors and Bandits in Roman Gaul
  10. CHAPTER 3 The Bagaudae: Center and Periphery, A.D. 25O-45O
  11. II Christian Society in Fourth-Century Gaul and Spain
  12. CHAPTER 4 The Christian Society of Late Roman Gaul and Spain
  13. CHAPTER 5 The Heresy of Priscillianism
  14. III The Assimilation of Christianity and Society
  15. CHAPTER 6 Martin of Tours and the Conversion of Gaul
  16. CHAPTER 7 The Transformation of the Aristocracy in the Fifth Century
  17. CHAPTER 8 Sidonius and the Rise of Relic Cults
  18. IV The Cult of Relics in Sixth-Century Merovingian Gaul
  19. CHAPTER 9 Early Merovingian Gaul: The World of Gregory of Tours
  20. CHAPTER 10 Relic Cults, Literary Culture, and the Aristocracy
  21. CHAPTER 11 Sacred Space: The Cult and Church of St. Martin at Tours
  22. CHAPTER 12 Illness, Healing, and Relic Cults
  23. CHAPTER 13 Sacred Time: Liturgy and the Christianization of Time
  24. Epilogue
  25. CHAPTER 14 The Fates of Ausonius and Paulinus of Nola
  26. SELECT EDITIONS OF ANCIENT AUTHORS
  27. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  28. INDEX

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