Éric Rebillard

Biographic Data

ID375304
NAMEÉric Rebillard
GIVEN NAMESÉric
FAMILY NAMERebillard
SIGNATUREREBILLARD É
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania
ORCID0000-0003-4730-6579
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Burial and Community Formation in Early Christianity: "A Response to Stephen Mitchell, "Burials, Brotherhoods, and Christian Communities in Asia Minor”

    Éric RebillardARTICLEEarly Christianity2025

    A thorough review of the dossier gathered by Stephen Mitchell shows that, contrary to his claim, early Christian inscriptions from Phrygia do not provide evidence that burial plays a decisive role in community formation

  • The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity

    Open AccessRichard Flower, Éric Rebillard et al.BOOKCambridge History of Ancient…2023

    The first three hundred years of the common era witnessed critical developments that would become foundational for Christianity itself, as well as for the societies and later history that emerged thereafter. The concept of 'ancient Christianity,' however, along with the content that the category represents, has raised much debate. This is, in part, because within this category lie multiple forms of devotion to Jesus Christ, multiple phenomena, an…

  • Why Did People Become Christians in the Pre-Constantinian World?: Reframing the Question

    Open AccessÉric RebillardCHAPTERCambridge History of Ancient…2023

    The question contained in this chapter’s title continues to elicit many answers from academics, particularly in publications addressed to a larger audience. 1 As has been observed by more than one scholar, however, the answers have not changed much since the time of Edward Gibbon (1737–94). 2 Moreover, in my view the answers typically given are not fully convincing, so I take the opportunity here to reconsider the question – in fact, even to ques…

  • Missionaries, Pious Merchants, Freelance Religious Experts, and the Spread of Christianity

    Open AccessÉric RebillardCHAPTEREmpire and Religion in the Roman…2021

    This chapter reviews the networks that made possible the diffusion of the beliefs and practices associated with the figure of Christ during the first and second centuries and concludes that the missionary, the pious merchant, and the occasional Christian traveler should definitively be discarded as likely agents of religious change. Complex contagions such as the diffusion of religious beliefs and practices require as agents individuals who have …

  • The Role of Clerics in North African Third-Century Martyr Narratives

    Éric RebillardARTICLEZeitschrift für Antikes…2021

    The comparison of the role of the clergy in the Passio Perpetuae , the Vita Cypriani , the Passio Mariani et Iacobi , and the Passio Lucii et Montani reveals that tensions around the respective authorities of clerics and martyrs/confessors continue to divide Christians in Carthage after the death of Cyprian

  • Eingegangene Bücher

    Open AccessPaul Enck, Gunther Gunther et al.ARTICLEHistorische Zeitschrift2021

  • The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity

    Éric RebillardBOOKCare of the Dead in Late Antiquity2019

    In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. Through a careful reading of primary sources including legal codes, theological works, epigraphical inscriptions, and sermons, Rebillard shows that there is little evidence to suggest…

  • Burial and Religious Identity: Religious Groups and Collective Burial

    Éric RebillardCHAPTERCare of the Dead in Late Antiquity2019

  • Les autorités romaines et la question de la participation des chrétiens aux sacrifices et fêtes publics aux trois premiers siècles de notre ère

    Éric RebillardARTICLEArchives de sciences sociales des…2018References: 10

    La non-participation des chrétiens aux sacrifices et fêtes publics est souvent présentée comme une des causes principales des accusations portées contre eux et de leurs exécutions aux trois premiers siècles. Un examen attentif de la documentation montre toutefois qu'une telle participation n'est pas clairement attendue de la population et encore moins contrôlée. Il apparaît aussi que ce grief contre les chrétiens n'apparaît que dans des textes éc…

  • Expressing Christianness in Carthage in the Second and Third Centuries

    Open AccessÉric RebillardARTICLEReligion in the Roman Empire2017

    Second and third-century Christians in Carthage seem to have expressed their Christianness in contexts in which they were with other Christians and in which they were already identified as such. There is little evidence of other, public, contexts in which they gave salience to their Christianness over other category memberships such as those attached to their social group or to their trade. The fact that they did not live in a separate Christian …

  • Everyday Christianity in Carthage at the Time of Tertullian

    Open AccessÉric RebillardARTICLEReligion in the Roman Empire2016

    This paper explores everyday Christianity in Carthage at the time of Tertullian. The notion is coined after that of everyday nationhood or everyday ethnicity developed by Rogers Brubaker and some of his students. Highlighting the disjuncture between the thematisation of Christianness in the discourse of ecclesiastical writers and its enactment in the everyday life of Christians, this approach tries to delimit the extent to which Christians lived …

  • Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity

    Éric Rebillard, Jörg RüpkeBOOKGroup Identity and Religious…2015

    To understand the past, we necessarily group people together and, consequently, frequently assume that all of its members share the same attributes. In this ground-breaking volume, Eric Rebillard and Jorg Rupke bring renowned scholars together to challenge this norm by seeking to rediscover the individual and to explore the dynamics between individuals and the groups to which they belong. Instead of taking religious groups as their point of depar…

  • Popular Hatred Against Christians: The Case of North Africa in the Second and Third Centuries

    Éric RebillardARTICLEArchiv für Religionsgeschichte2015

    Popular hatred against Christians is often presented as an important factor in the persecutions. This paper argues that where evidence is available, which is the case for North Africa in the second and third centuries, popular hatred does not seem to play a significant role in the processes that led to the executions of Christians. It further suggests that popular hatred against Christians is in large part a construction of the ecclesiastical lea…

  • The Last Pagans of Rome by Alan Cameron (review)

    Éric RebillardARTICLEThe Classical World2013

    Reviewed by: The Last Pagans of Rome by Alan Cameron Eric Rebillard Alan Cameron. The Last Pagans of Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xi, 878. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-974727-6. In the course of the book’s nearly 900 pages he seeks to demonstrate that “there was no pagan revival in the West, no pagan party, no pagan literary circles, no pagan patronage of the classics, no pagan propaganda in art or literature, no pagans editing class…

  • Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity

    Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings, Jeanine Routier-Pucci et al.BOOKCare of the Dead in Late Antiquity2010

  • The Church, the Living, and the Dead

    Open AccessÉric RebillardOTHERA Companion to Late Antiquity2009

    This chapter contains sections titled: Deathbed Rites Funerals The Church and Christian Places of Burial The Commemoration of the Dead Bibliographical Note

  • Pierre Batcheff and Stardom in 1920s French Cinema

    Éric Rebillard, Phil PowrieBOOKPierre Batcheff and stardom in…2009

  • Pierre Batcheff and stardom in 1920s French cinema

    Phil Powrie, Éric RebillardBOOKPierre Batcheff and stardom in…2009

    This is the first major study of French silent cinema star Pierre Batcheff, a prominent popular cinema actor in the 1920s.

  • The lover

    Phil Powrie, Éric RebillardCHAPTERPierre Batcheff and stardom in…2005

    This chapter presents seven films in which Pierre Batcheff starred during a very busy three-year period (1926–1928) when ten films appeared. In these seven films, Batcheff is always the lover (as he is in all his films), often a foreigner (Russian, Corsican, ‘Silistrian’) or placed in a foreign location (the ‘tropics’, Africa), usually from the upper class (aristocrat, baron, prince) or highly successful in his career (an engineer, an aviator, a …

  • Musarna (Viterbe): Le site étrusco-romain

    Henri Broise, Vincent Jolivet et al.ARTICLEMélanges de l École française de…2004

    Broise Henri, Jolivet Vincent, Rebillard Éric. Musarna (Viterbe) : le site étrusco-romain. In: Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Antiquité, tome 116, n°1. 2004. Antiquité. pp. 588-590

  • The Cult of the Dead in Late Antiquity: Towards a New Definition of the Relation between the Living and the Dead

    Open AccessÉric RebillardARTICLEActa ad archaeologiam et artium…2003

    Meals for the commemoration of the dead are envisioned here neither as a pagan persistence nor as an assimilation by Christianity of pagan’s practices. It is argued that the Church did not try either to forbid these meals, as long as they were not offered for the martyrs or to interfere in a sphere, the care of the dead, which was not relevant to its authority. It is suggested that the reason why the Church did not take care of the memory of the …

  • Musarna (Viterbe): Le site étrusco-romain

    Henri Broise, Martine Dewailly et al.ARTICLEMélanges de l École française de…2003

    Broise Henri, Dewailly Martine, Jolivet Vincent, Rebillard Éric. Musarna (Viterbe) : le site étrusco-romain. In: Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Antiquité, tome 115, n°1. 2003. Antiquité. pp. 443-446

  • Église et sépulture dans L'Antiquité tardive (Occident latin, 3e-6esiècles)

    Open AccessÉric RebillardARTICLEAnnales Histoire Sciences Sociales1999References: 9

    Le rassemblement des tombes dans le cimetière autour de l'église est devenu, au cours du Moyen Age, un trait spécifique de la civilisation chrétienne, bien visible encore aujourd'hui dans les campagnes françaises. Alors que les travaux récents des médiévistes ont montré que l'institution du cimetière était l'aboutissement d'une longue et complexe histoire, les spécialistes du christianisme ancien considèrent pour la plupart que l'Église possédait…

  • La ' Conversion ' de L'Empire Romain Selon Peter Brown: Note Critique

    Open AccessÉric RebillardARTICLEAnnales Histoire Sciences Sociales1999Cited by: 1References: 11

    Pouvoir et persuasion dans l'Antiquité tardiveetL'autorité et le sacré, deux des derniers ouvrages de Peter Brown qui viennent d'être traduits en français, entretiennent de nombreux échos autour d'une thématique commune, le ' problème de la christianisation '. Le sous-titre du premier ' Vers un empire chrétien ' pose implicitement la question, tandis que celui du second ' Aspects de la christianisation dans le monde romain ' annonce explicitement…

  • L'Église de Rome et le développement des catacombes. À propos de l'origine des cimetières chrétiens

    Éric RebillardARTICLEMélanges de l École française de…1997

    Éric Rebillard, L'Église de Rome et le développement des catacombes. À propos de l'origine des cimetières chrétiens, p. 741-763. Dans le prolongement de travaux antérieurs, cet article remet en cause les hypothèses de De Rossi sur le rôle de l'Église dans le développement et l'organisation des catacombes de Rome. La démonstration de la fragilité du système proposé par De Rossi veut être une invitation pour les spécialistes à reprendre le cas de c…