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UNISA996247942203316 |
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Van Dam Raymond |
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Leadership and community in late antique Gaul / / Raymond Van Dam |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1985 |
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0-520-34196-1 |
0-585-30170-0 |
0-520-91281-0 |
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Edizione |
[Reprint 2020] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 350 p. ) : map ; |
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Collana |
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The transformation of the classical heritage ; ; 8 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Merovingians - History |
Gaul 58 B.C.-511 A.D |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Map on lining papers. |
Includes index. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Bibliography: p. [317]-340. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- I. Local Authority and Central Administration -- 2. Emperors and Bandits in Roman Gaul -- 3. The Bagaudae: Center and Periphery, A.D. 250-450 -- II. Christian Society in Fourth-Century Gaul and Spain -- 4. The Christian Society of Late Roman Gaul and Spain -- 5. The Heresy of Priscillianism -- III. The Assimilation of Christianity and Society -- Introduction -- 6. Martin of Tours and the Conversion of Gaul -- 7. The Transformation of the Aristocracy in the Fifth Century -- 8. Sidonius and the Rise of Relic Cults -- IV. The Cult of Relics in Sixth-Century Merovingian Gaul -- 9. Early Merovingian Gaul: The World of Gregory of Tours -- 10. Relic Cults, Literary Culture, and the Aristocracy -- 11. Sacred Space: The Cult and Church of St. Martin at Tours -- 12. Illness, Healing, and Relic Cults -- 13. Sacred Time: Liturgy and the Christianization of Time -- Epilogue -- 14. The Fates of Ausonius and Paulinus of Nola -- Select Editions of Ancient Authors -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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