medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Cecilia,
Have you tried Eamon Duffy's Saints & Sinners? While it is a history of the
Popes it also deals with the spread of christianity. For your purposes
there is an excellent bibliographical essay at the end. Look at the section
for chapter 1, c AD 33-461.
Hope this helps,
Peter Ledger
UEA, Norwich
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Subject: [M-R] Appeal of Early Christianity
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Dear All-
>
> I am venturing forth to ask a question regarding the current view of the
> spread of christianity in the third century. I know the older view is
> that it was a "slave" religion and that it appealed to the poor,
> disenfranchised, and artisnal classes in the Roman Empire, but I seem to
> think that more recent views have rejected this in favor of understanding
> the importance of more well-to-do people, particularly women. Here I
> am in part thinking of P. Brown's second chapter in his *cult of the
> saints* where he understands the control of relics within the context of
> what I believe he calls "competing patronage systems".
>
> Could anyone with more familiarity with the third and fourth century shed
> some light?
>
> Many thanks
> Cecilia Gaposchkin
> Dartmouth College
> History
>
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