CONTENTS

List of illustrations

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the original edition

Acknowledgements

Conventions and abbreviations

List of emperors

Glossary

Map

Introduction

Late Antiquity: an overview

The sources: types, languages, and dating

Pagans or polytheists?

Further reading and useful reference works

PART I
Pagans and Christians through time

  1    Pagans in the third century

  2    Christians in the third century

  3    Pagans and Christians during the Tetrarchy

  4    Constantine

  5    Pagans and Christians in the mid-fourth century

  6    Pagans and Christians in the late fourth century

  7    Christianisation and its limits in the fifth and sixth centuries

PART II
Other religious groups

  8    Jews

  9    Zoroastrians

10    Manichaeans

PART III
Themes in late antique Christianity

11    Ascetics

12    Bishops

13    Material resources

14    Church life

15    Women

16    Pilgrims and holy places

Editions

Bibliography

Index of sources

General index