Table of Contents
List of Maps xv
List of Illustrations xvii
Preface xix
Part I Wealth, Christianity, and Giving at the End of an Ancient World 1
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Chapter 1 Aurea aetas -
Wealth in an Age of Gold 3
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Chapter 2 Mediocritas -
The Social Profile of the Latin Church, 312–ca.
370 31
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Chapter 3 Amor civicus -
Love of the city -
Wealth and Its Uses in an Ancient World 53
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Chapter 4 "Treasure in Heaven" - Wealth in the Christian Church
72
Part II An Age of Affluence 91
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Chapter 5 Symmachus - Being Noble in Fourth-Century
Rome
93
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Chapter 6 Avidus civicae gratiae - Greedy for the good favor of the city - Symmachus and the People of Rome 110
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Chapter 7 Ambrose and His People
120
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Chapter 8 "Avarice, the Root of All Evil" - Ambrose and Northern Italy
135
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Chapter 9 Augustine - Spes saeculi -
Careerism, Patronage and Religious Bonding, 354–384
148
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Chapter 10 From Milan to Hippo - Augustine and the Making of a Religious Community, 384–396
161
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Chapter 11 "The Life in Common of a kind of Divine and Heavenly Republic" - Augustine on Public and Private in a Monastic Community 173
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Chapter 12 Ista vero saecularia -
Those things, indeed, of the world - Ausonius, Villas, and the Language of Wealth
185
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Chapter 13 Ex opulentissimo divite - From being rich as rich can be
Paulinus of Nola and the Renunciation of Wealth, 389–395
208
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Chapter 14 Commercium spiritale
The spiritual Exchange - Paulinus of Nola and the Poetry of Wealth, 395–408 224
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Chapter 15 Propter magnificentiam urbis Romae - By reason of the magnificence of the city of Rome - The Roman Rich and their Clergy, from Constantine to Damasus, 312–384 241
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Chapter 16 "To Sing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land" - Jerome in Rome, 382–385 259
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Chapter 17 Between Rome and Jerusalem - Women, Patronage, and Learning, 385–412
273
Part III
An Age of Crisis 289
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Chapter 18 "The Eye of a Needle" and "The Treasure of the Soul" - Renunciation, Nobility, and the Sack of Rome, 405–413
291
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Chapter 19 Tolle divitem - Take away the rich - The Pelagian Criticism of Wealth 308
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Chapter 20 Augustine's Africa - People and Church 322
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Chapter 21 "Dialogues with the Crowd" - The Rich, the People, and the City in the Sermons
of Augustine
339
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Chapter 22 Dimitte nobis debita nostra - Forgive us our sins - Augustine, Wealth, and Pelagianism, 411–417 359
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Chapter 23 "Out of Africa" - Wealth, Power and the Churches, 415–430 369
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Chapter 24 "Still at that Time a More Affluent Empire" - The Crisis of the West in the Fifth Century 385
Part IV Aftermaths 409
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Chapter 25 Among the Saints - Marseilles, Arles and Lérins, 400–440 411
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Chapter 26 Romana respublica vel iam mortua - With the empire now dead and gone - Salvian and His Gaul, 420–450 433
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Chapter 27 Ob Italiae securitatem - For the security of Italy - Rome and Italy, ca. 430–ca. 530 454
Part V Toward Another World 479
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Chapter 28 Patrimonia pauperum - Patrimonies of the poor - Wealth and Conflict in the Churches
of the Sixth Century 481
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Chapter 29 Servator fidei, patriaeque semper amator - Guardian of the Faith, and always lover of [his] homeland - Wealth and Piety in the Sixth Century 503
Conclusion
527
Abbreviations
531
Notes
533
Works Cited
- Primary Sources 641
- Secondary Sources 654
Index 719
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