Abstract:

This thesis interrogates material sources from the fifth and sixth centuries to come to a nuanced understanding of what implications the association of Christianity and Romanness had for the conduct of late antique Christians’. I argue that Christian art and material culture shows us that in their lived religious practices, Christians treated Roman cultural techniques and Roman spaces, which high-ranking church representatives considered un-Christian or even pagan, as parts of Christian cu...

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