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Title Religion, dynasty, and patronage in early Christian Rome, 300-900 / edited by Kate Cooper and Julia Hillner
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 327 pages)
Contents From emperor to pope? : ceremonial, space, and authority at Rome from Constantine to Gregory the Great / Mark Humphries -- Memory and authority in sixth-century Rome : the Liber Pontificalis and the Collectio Avellana / Kate Blair-Dixon -- Domestic conversions : households and bishops in the late antique 'papal legends' / Kristina Sessa -- Agnes and Constantia : domesticity and cult patronage in the Passion of Agnes / Hannah Jones -- 'A church in the house of the saints' : property and power in the Passion of John and Paul / Conrad Leyser -- Poverty, obligation, and inheritance : Roman heiresses and the varieties of senatorial Christianity in fifth-century Rome / Kate Cooper -- Demetrias ancilla dei : Anicia Demetrias and the problem of the missing patron / Anne Kurdock -- Families, patronage, and the titular churches of Rome, c.300-c.600 / Julia Hillner -- To be the neighbour of St Stephen : patronage, martyr cult, and Roman monasteries, c.600-c.900 / Marios Costambeys and Conrad Leyser
Summary Discusses the transformation of Rome in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-316) and index
Notes English
Subject Religion and state -- Rome -- History
HISTORY.
Politics and government
Religion
Religion and state
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Christentum
Christendom.
Vorstenhuizen.
Patronage.
SUBJECT Rome -- Religion -- History
Rome -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115178
Subject Rome (Empire)
Rome.
Rom.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cooper, Kate, 1960-
Hillner, Julia
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