The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire.(Book review)

Church History | March 1, 2006| | Copyright

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 + 364 pp. $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.

The Christianization of the Roman Empire is often approached as a bottom-up issue, that is, the poor converted first and the aristocracy held out the longest; or as top-down issue, that is, Constantine's conversion precipitated a trickle-down effect as civil servants and minor aristocrats saw the imperial handwriting on the wall and converted to save or ...

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