The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire.(Book Review) From: Church History | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: Drake, H.A. | COPYRIGHT 2004 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire. By Michele Renee Salzman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. xiv + 354 pp. $49.95 cloth.

In 1961, Peter Brown put his finger on a dilemma in thinking about the end of Roman paganism: the "sharp dichotomy" model that dominated scholarship at the time simply could not explain the complete transformation of the Roman aristocracy into a Christian elite around the tu...

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