| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 258 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Oxford early Christian studies |
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Oxford early Christian studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: regional history and religious history -- pt. I. Religion and environment: Christian origins in northern Italy. 1. The north Italian human environment. 2. Subscribing bishops and invented apostles: the search for the earliest north Italian churches. 3. Portraits in a landscape: Christian origins in northern Italy -- pt. II. North Italian Christian communities in the fourth century. 4. Regional churches and imperial policy. 5. The ordering of society. 6. From the cities to the mountains: Christian expansion, 350-400. 7. Negotiosus cursus: Christianity in the cities. Epilogue: the changing world of Chromatius of Aquileia -- App. The martyrs of northern Italy |
| Summary |
This title challenges the conventional view that the church in Europe expanded by means of co-ordinated apostolic missions, a view that has its origins in medieval legends |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-250) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church.
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| SUBJECT |
Italy, Northern -- Church history
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| Subject |
Northern Italy.
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| Genre/Form |
Church history.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99025813 |
| ISBN |
9786610446087 |
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6610446083 |
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9780198269830 |
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0198269838 |
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9780191683824 |
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0191683825 |
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