Paganism and Christianity 100-425 C.E.

by Ramsay MacMullen and Eugene N. Lane

Book Overview

This book is a collection of nearly 175 documentsfrom saints, emperors, philosophers, satirists, inscriptions, graffiti, and other interesting typesthat sheds light on the complex fabric of religious belief as it changed from a variety of non-Judeo-Christian movements to Christian in late antiquity. These texts illuminate and bring to life the bizarre and the banal of the social world of the Roman Empire, the world in which Christianity ultimately...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800626478
• ISBN13: 9780800626471
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"