RELIGION, DYNASTY, AND PATRONAGE IN A CHRISTIAN CAPITAL: ROME, 300-900
Edited by Kate Cooper and Julia Hillner
Revised Table of Contents, March 2006
This volume draws on work by members of the Centre for Late Antiquity, University of Manchester, over the last decade, work which has sought to understand the lay, clerical, and ascetic populations at the end of antiquity as interacting in an atmosphere more fluid than the static institutionalism claimed by the official ecclesiastical sources. The contribution of the present volume will be to show how critical use of an unprecedentedly wide range of evidencebringing together material culture with textual sources from epigraphy to early charters, along with the fragmentary and often anonymous remains of lay devotional literaturecan shed light on the changing dynamics of authority and patronage in the Roman Church, and in the ciry of Rome more broadly.
Part I. Icons of Authority: Pope and Emperor
1. Mark HUMPHRIES
From Emperor to Pope? Ceremonial, space, and authority at Rome from Constantine to Gregory the Great2. Kate BLAIR-DIXON
Memory and Authority in Sixth Century Rome: The Liber Pontificalis and the Collectio Avellana
Part II. Lay, Clerical, and Ascetic Contexts for the Roman GESTA MARTYRUM
3. Kristina SESSA
Domestic Conversions: Households and Bishops in Late Antique Papal Legends4. Hannah JONES
Agnes and Constantia: Martyr Narrative and Cult Patronage in the Passion of Agnes5. Conrad LEYSER and Clare PILSWORTH
Excavating the Passion of SS John and Paul (BHL 3242): Early Medieval Contexts for the Vetustissimus of Corbie
Part III. Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage
6. Kate COOPER
Conversion and Inheritance: Dynasty and Monastery in Fifth-Century Rome7. Anne KURDOCK
Demetrias ancilla dei: The Problem of the Missing Patron8. Julia HILLNER
Families, Patronage and the Titular Churches of Rome, c.300-c.6009. Marios COSTAMBEYS and Conrad LEYSER
To be the neighbour of St Stephen: Patronage, Martyr Cult, and Roman Monasteries, c.600-c.900