The Making of a Christian Aristocracy
Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3939277 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser (0000-0003-2341-0283) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1/2 |
| Pages | 183 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire, Michele Renee Salzman, 2009 |
| Venue | Phoenix (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4135220 |
| OpenAlex | W2018575747 |
| Language | EN |
Why did the Roman Empire become Christian? This question has significant ramifications for the whole of western history. Michele Renee Salzman is not, of course, the first to seek to explain this seismic change, but her approach seeks to make good the shortcomings of earlier attempts
Ancient history · Aristocracy (class) · Empire · Political science · Politics · Roman Empire · Historical and Architectural Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law · Religion and Society Interactions
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Roman Consuls, Imperial Politics, and Egyptian Papyri
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Ambrose and the Usurpation of Arbogastes and Eugenius
John Chrysostom on Paul as Founder of Churches
Between the Domestic and Agoric Somatoscape
The religious administration of Constantine
Domus , Family, and Inheritance
Mirrors for Bureaucrats
Statues of Senators in the Forum of Trajan and the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity
Olybrius and the Einsiedeln Eclogues
Where Did All the Pagans Go? The Non-Christian Sarcophagi of Fourth-Century Rome
Rome and the transformation of the imperial office in the late fourth-mid-fifth centuries AD
Deconstructing the Symbolic City
Liturgy, Space, and Community in the Basilica Julii (Santa Maria in Trastevere)
The Collection and Its Collective
The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World
Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography
Constantine and the Roman Senate
Dynasty and Aristocracy in the Fifth Century
Ambrose, Augustine, and the Pursuit of Greatness
Christianity and paganism, III
The Vestal Nun
Social Mobility in the Western Roman Empire under Julian the Apostate
Curial Communiqué
Religious Agency and Time Regimes in the Roman Empire
From Literal to Spiritual Soldiers of Christ
Mission from Below
| Highly cited | No |
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