J. Curran - Rome in the Fourth Century [2000]

John Curran - Pagan City and Christian Capital. Rome in the Fourth Century, Oxford, 2000.

• List of Illustrations
• List of Abbreviations
• Topography
• Emperors, Gods, and Violence in Third-Century Rome
• Introduction
• Public building and the topography of Rome in the third century
• Soldiers and civilians
• The Christian community in Rome
• Conclusion
• Conservator Urbis: Maxentius in Rome
• Introduction: Rome and the Tetrarchs
• The usurpation of Maxentius
• Building activity in Rome
• Maxentius and the Christians
• The end
• Conclusion
• Constantine and Rome: The Context of Innovation
• Introduction
• Constantine and the centre of Rome: October 312
• Constantine and the destruction of the memory of Maxentius in the centre of Rome
• Constantine's Christian buildings in Rome
• Conclusion
• The Christianization of the Topography of Rome, AD 337 - 384
• Introduction
• Bishop Julius and his predecessors
• The basilica-mausoleum complex on the Via Nomentana
• Liberius and Felix
• Damasus and Ursinus
• The Roman churches of Damasus
• The epigrammata of Damasus
• Conclusion
• Society
• The Legal Standing of the Ancient Cults of Rome
• Introduction
• Working with the Theodosian Code
• Constantine
• The house of Constantine
• Julian and Jovian
• Valentinian and the West
• Gratian, Valentinian II, and and the West
• Theodosius
• Conclusion
• Paganism, Christianity, and the Imperial Celebrations in the Circus Maximus During the Fourth Century
• Introduction
• The festival calendar
• The importance of the circus games
• The iconography of the Circus Maximus in the fourth century
• The pompa circi and the Christian emperor
• Conclusion
• Jerome, Asceticism, and the Roman Aristocracy, AD 340 - 410
• Introduction
• The Roman aristocracy redefined
• The context of senatorial asceticism
• Christian asceticism: Points of conflict
• Jerome and the 'sham' Christians of Rome
• Melania the Younger, Pinianus and the Fall of Rome
• Status in an ascetic context
• Conclusion
• Towards an Understanding of 'Christianization' in Rome
• Illustrations
• Bibliography
• Index

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