50-600. An Era without Eschatological Anxieties
- The Serene Look of the Polytheists at the Hereafter - Resurrection of the Body: An Absurd Idea, an Inextricable Philosophical Problem, a Variously-Interpreted Dogma
Philosophers and Bishops as Physicians of the Soul
- Pagan and Christian Arguments against the Practice of Ritual Lament - Rival but Similar Therapies of Grief: the Philosophical and Christian Logos
The Impact of Christianity on Monumental Commemoration
- The Christianization of the Epigraphic Language - From Ancient to Christian 'Likeness': The Eclipse of the Sculpted Funerary Portrait in its Intellectual and Historical Context
Putrid Corpses and Fragrant Relics: Attitudes towards the Pollution of the Dead among Pagans, Jews and Christians
- Intellectual and Emotional Origins of a Tactile Revolution - The Sacralization of Death
Functions of the Funerary and Commemorative Rituals in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600)
- The Ideological Function of Ritual - The Honorific Function of Ritual - The Solidaristic and Affective Functions of Ritual - The Originality of the Christian Organization of Burial: The Use of Ritual as a Means of Forging a Separate Religious Identity
The Burial of the Poor: Forces that Propel and Forces that Hinder the Development of a Christian 'Welfare State' in Late Antiquity
- Theology, Heresy and Social Welfare - Structural Weaknesses of the Christian 'Welfare State'
The 'Longue-Durée' Pleasures of Death - Feasting with the Dead
- A Grave-Side Theatre
