Church and Society in Late Antique Italy and Beyond

Contents: Foreword; Part 1 Three Chapters: Pontifical authority and imperial power in the reign of Justinian: pope Virgilius; Arator, un poete au service de la politique du pape Vigile?; Vigilius in the Liber Pontificalis: a memory lost, or manipulated?; Le rA?le des expertises dans les debats theologiques du VIe siecle; Council, emperor and bishops: authority and orthodoxy in the 3 Chapters controversy. Part 2 Bishops and Elites in Late Roman Italy: Le recrutement des evA?ques en Italie aux IVe and Ve siecles. essai d' enquA?te prosopographique. The bishop's men: episcopal power in the city; The bishops of Italy in late antique society: a new elite?; The Christian gift and its impact in late antiquity. Part 3 Sacred Places in the Late Roman Empire: Locus orationis ou domus Dei? Le temoignage de Zenon de Verone sur l'evolution des eglises (tractatus II, 6); The end of pagan holy places in the West: problems and method; Places of Christian worship and their sacralization in late antiquity; Chronologie, topographie, histoire: quelques hypotheses sur S. Felix in Pincis, eglise disparue. Part 4 Organization and Communication in Ancient Christianity: La circulation de l'information dans les eglises; The Church in the Roman Empire: changes without reform and reforms without change; How were bishops informed? Information transmission across the Adriatic Sea in late antiquity; Index.