The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire

From: Trinity Journal | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Schnabel, Eckhard | Copyright information

Michele Renee Salzman. The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. xiv + 354 pp. $19.95.

The expansion of the Christian faith that led to the Christianization of the Roman Empire in the centuries that followed the acceptance of Christianity by Emperor Constantine I in A.D. 312 arguably represents the most radical and longest lasting social and religious change that history has seen. Wh...

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