The power of religion in late antiquity / edited by Andrew Cain and Noel Lenski.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-457) and index.

Introduction : power and religion on the frontier of late antiquity / Noel Lenski -- Disarming Aeneas : Fulgentius on Arms and the Man / Emily Albu -- "Apocalypse? No." : the power of millennialism and its transformation in late antique Christianity / Josef L�ossl -- Clementissimus Imperator : power, religion, and philosophy in Ambrose's De obitu Theodosii and Seneca's De clementia / Giacomo Raspanti -- Haec quibus uteris verba : the Bible and Boethius' Christianity / Danuta Shanzer -- The power of religious rituals : a philosophical quarrel on the eve of the Great Persecution / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser -- Subjugating the divine : Iamblichus on the theurgic evocation / Segio Knipe -- Arbiter of the oracular : reading religion in Porphyry of Tyre / Aaron P. Johnson -- Church, state, and children : Christian and imperial attitudes toward infant exposure in Late Antiquity / Judith Evans Grubbs -- Imperial politics at the court of Theodosius II / Hugh Elton -- "The trembling of Cain" : religious power and institutional culture in Justinianic oath-making / Charles Pazdernik -- Power from humility : Justinian and the religious authority of monks / Hartmut Leppin -- Currencies of power : the venality of offices in the later Roman Empire / Sabine R. Huebner -- Religion and power in the early thought of John Chrysostom / Justin Stephens -- "The truth shall make you free" : Augustine on the power of religion / Gillian Clark -- "Our own most severe judges" : the power of penance in the Eusebius Gallicanus sermons / Lisa Bailey -- Solar power in Late Antiquity / H. A. Drake -- How to read a halo : three (or more) versions of Constantine's vision / Jacqueline Long -- The power of the cross : celestial cross appearances in the fourth century / Jan Willem Drijvers -- Augures et pontifices : public sacral law in Late Antique Rome (fourth-fifth centuries AD) / Rita Lizzi Testa -- Imagining the capitolium in Late Antiquity / Lucy Grig -- The making of a papal Rome : Gregory I and the letania septiformis / Jacob A. Latham -- Ricimer's church in Rome : how an Arian barbarian prospered in a Nicene world / Ralph W. Mathisen -- Gregory of Tours and "Arianism" / Edward James -- The imagery of personal objects : hints of "do-it-yourself" Christian culture in Merovingian Gaul? / Bailey K. Young -- Antioch and the intersection between religious factionalism, place, and power in Late Antiquity / Wendy Mayer -- On the way to Bethlehem : Mary between Jerome and John of Jerusalem / Hagith Sivan -- Christianity in war : Ammianus on power and religion in Constantius' Persian War / John Weisweiler -- Persecuting heresy in early Islamic Iraq : the Catholicos Ishoyahb III and the elites of Nisibis / Richard E. Payne.