Church and society in late antique Italy and beyond
By: Claire Sotinel
Series: Variorum collected studies series -- CS948; Collected studies -- CS948.
Publisher: Ashgate/Variorum; Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781409400226
Subjects: Three chapters (Christological controversy); Temporal power of religious rulers; Church history; Church and state; Church; Authority; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Three Chapters. Pontifical authority and imperial power in the reign of Justinian : pope Vigilius ; Arator, un poète au service de la politique du pape Vigile? ; Vigilius in the Liber Pontificalis : a memory lost, or manipulated? ; Le rôle des expertises dans les débats théologiques de VIe siècle ; Council, emperor and bishops : authority and orthodoxy in the three chapters controversy; title: Bishops and elites in late Roman Italy. Le recrutement des évêques en italie aux IVe et Ve siècles : essai d'enquête prosoporgraphique ; The bishop's men : episcopal power in the city ; The bishops of Italy in late antique society : a new elite? ; The Christian gift and its economic impact in Late Antiquity; title: Sacred places in the late Roman Empire. Locus orationis ou domus Dei : le témoignage de Zénon de Vérone sur l'évolution des églises (tractatus II, 6) ; The end of pagan holy places in the West : problems and method ; Places of Christian worship and their serialization in late Antiquity ; Chronologie, topographie, histoire : quelques hypothèses sur S. Felix in Pincis, église disparue; title: Organization and communication in ancient Christianity. La circulation de l'information dans les Églises ; The Church in the Roman Empire : changes without reform and reforms without change ; How were bishops informed : information transmission across the Adriatic Sea in Late Antiquity.