Church and society in late antique Italy and beyond / Claire Sotinel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Three Chapters. Pontifical authority and imperial power in the reign of Justinian : pope Vigilius ; Arator, un po�ete au service de la politique du pape Vigile? ; Vigilius in the Liber Pontificalis : a memory lost, or manipulated? ; Le r�ole des expertises dans les d�ebats th�eologiques de VIe si�ecle ; Council, emperor and bishops : authority and orthodoxy in the three chapters controversy -- Bishops and elites in late Roman Italy. Le recrutement des �ev�eques en italie aux IVe et Ve si�ecles : essai d'enqu�ete prosoporgraphique ; 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 economic impact in Late Antiquity -- Sacred places in the late Roman Empire. Locus orationis ou domus Dei : le t�emoignage de Z�enon de V�erone 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 serialization in late Antiquity ; Chronologie, topographie, histoire : quelques hypoth�eses sur S. Felix in Pincis, �eglise disparue -- 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.

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