Brown, Peter, 1935-
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Wealth, Christianity, and giving at the end of an ancient world. Aurea aetas : wealth in an age of gold Mediocritas : the social profile of the Latin Church, 312-ca. 370 Amor civicus = Love of the city : wealth and its uses in an ancient world Treasure in heaven : wealth in the Christian Church — An age of affluence. Symmachus : being noble in fourth-century Rome Avidus civicae gratiae = Greedy for the good favor of the city : Symmachus and the people of Rome Ambrose and his people Avarice, the root of all evil : Ambrose and Northern Italy Augustine : spes saeculi : careerism, patronage, and religious bonding, 354-384 From Milan to Hippo : Augustine and the making of a religious community, 384-396 The life in common of a kind of divine and heavenly republic: : Augustine on public and private in a monastic community Ista vero saecularia = Those things, indeed, of the world : Ausonius, villas, and the language of wealth Ex opulentissimo divite = From being rich as rich can be : Paulinus of Nola and the renunciation of wealth, 389-395 Commercium spirituale = The spiritual exchange : Paulinus of Nola and the poetry of wealth ,395-408 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 To sing the Lord’s song in a strange land : Jerome in Rome, 382-385 Between Rome and Jerusalem : women, patronage, and learning, 385-412 — An age of crisis. The eye of a needle and The treasure of the soul : renunciation, nobility, and the Sack of Rome, 405-413 Tolle divitem = Take away the rich : the Pelagian criticism of wealth Augustine’s Africa : people and Church Dialogues with the crowd : the rich, the people, and the city in the sermons of Augustine Dimitte nobis debita nostra = Forgive us our sins : Augustine, wealth, and Pelagianism, 411-417 Out of Africa : wealth, power, and the churches, 415-430 Still at that time a more affluent Empire : the crisis of the We
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