medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Christopher
I don't know that Van Dam actually talks about "laying out of the
provinces"--he is in the social history of the church mode after Peter
Brown. BUT BE SURE to check out his chapter "Sacred space: The Cult and
Church of St. Martin of Tours" in which he treats the late 5th c wall
paintings and their labels (inscriptions) in the now destroyed church of
St. Martin (restored by Gregory the Great in the later 6th century), and he
brings up the topos of pictures as equivalents of written texts--in the
church of St Martin, the wall paintings with inscriptions become "the first
'illuminated manuscripts' of the Middle Ages" and he then quotes Paulinus
of Perigueux (author of the inscriptions) that the mural ptgs and
inscripts. were "'a page revealed on a wall'" --pretty nifty, and 5th
century (p. 238)
Leah Rutchick
>Mark Williams <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >You should look into the several books of Ray Van Dam (Leadership and
>Community in Late Antique Gaul) and Ralph W. Mathisen (Ecclesiastical
>Factionalism and Religious Controversy in Fifth-Century Gaul).
>
>
>the titles to these (esp. the latter) would seem to suggest that, if they deal
>with the actual laying out of sees & provinces, the whole system was not
>simply taken over from the Roman provincial organisation of Diocletian (or
>later).
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