Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
List of Illustrations......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Abbreviations......Page 17
Introduction......Page 19
1. An Empire of Family and Friends: Public and Private in Roman Religions......Page 36
Public and Private in Roman Religion......Page 38
Communal and Private in Second- and Third-Century Christianity......Page 66
Conclusions: Public and Private in Roman Polytheist and Christian Thought......Page 76
2. Two Christian Capitals: Private Worship in Rome and Constantinople......Page 79
Rome......Page 81
Constantinople......Page 121
Conclusions......Page 141
3. \"Christianizing\" the Countryside: Rural Estates and Private Cult......Page 143
The Fourth-Century Countryside......Page 145
The Forms of Estate Worship: Villa Churches, Mausolea, and \"Monasteries\"......Page 147
Social Qualities if Estate-Based Christianity......Page 176
Bishops and Rural Elites: Estate Christianity in Local Context......Page 179
Conclusions......Page 205
4. Ideologies of the Private: Private Cult and the Construction of Heresy and Sanctity......Page 207
Contesting Private Worship: Heresy and the Home......Page 209
Promoting Private Worship: Constructing Ideals of Female Sanctity......Page 220
Conclusions: Debating the Private......Page 232
Conclusions......Page 235
Introduction......Page 245
1. An Empire of Family and Friends: Public and Private in Roman Religions......Page 249
2. Two Christian Capitals: Private Worship in Rome and Constantinople......Page 263
3. \"Christianizing\" the Countryside: Rural Estates and Private Cult......Page 285
4. Ideologies of the Private: Private Cult and the Construction of Heresy and Sanctity......Page 300
Conclusions......Page 308
Bibliography......Page 311
Index......Page 361