Pagan City and Christian Capital: Rome in the Fourth Century

by: Curran, J.

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Pagan City and Christian Capital
Rome in the Fourth Century
John R Curran
Oxford Classical Monographs
Examines Rome as a living and working city at a particularly significant time in its history
Explores the effects the shift in religious fervour from paganism to Christianity had upon city life in the fourth century

Description
The critical century between the arrival of Constantine and the advance of Alaric in the early fifth century witnessed dramatic changes in the city of Rome. In this book Dr Curran has broken away from the usual notions of religious conflict between Christians and pagans, to focus on a number of approaches to the Christianization of Rome. He surveys the laws and political considerations which governed the building policy of Constantine and his successors, the effect of papal building and commemorative constructions on Roman topography, the continuing ambivalence of the Roman festal calendar, and the conflict between Christians over asceticism and 'real' Christianity. Thus using analytical, literary, and legal evidence Dr Curran explains the way in which the landscape, civic life, and moral values of Rome were transformed by complex and sometimes paradoxical forces, laying the foundation for the capital of medieval Christendom. Through a study of Rome as a city Dr Curran explores the rise of Christianity and the decline of paganism in the later Roman empire

Table of Contents
Part 1: Topography1:Emperors, Gods, and Violence in Third-Century Rome
2:Conservator Urbis: Maxentius in Rome
3:Constantine and Rome: The Context of Innovation
4:The Christianization of the Topography of Rome, AD 337-384
Part 2: Society5:The Legal Standing of the Ancient Cults of Rome
6:Paganism, Christianity, and the Imperial Celebrations in the Circus Maximus during the Fourth Century
7:Jerome, Asceticism, and the Roman Aristocracy, AD 340-410
Towards an understanding of 'Christianization' in Rome

Pagan City and Christian Capital: Rome in the Fourth Century

by: Curran, J.

• ISBN-13: 9780199254200 / 978-0-19-925420-0
• ISBN-03: 0199254206 / 0-19-925420-6
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002

Price: 43,00 EURO

1 copy in stock