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Klappentext This book studies the processes by which the pagan Roman empire was transformed into the Christian middle ages. Drawing on the perspectives of social history! archaeology and anthropology! it focuses on the strategies of Bishop Caesarius of Arles (AD 470 542) to promote Christian values! practices and beliefs among the pagans! Jews and Christians of southern France! and on the resistance provoked by his efforts among the population. This is the first book in English about Caesarius! and the only book to discuss southern Gaul during the sixth century. It examines afresh the crucial years of continuity! disruption! and profound change which followed the end of the Roman empire in the west! and the effects of Caesarius' programme under the later Merovingians and Carolingians. Zusammenfassung This book studies the problem of Christianisation in southern France during the early sixth century AD, and of the transformation of the pagan Roman empire, from the perspective of the career and writings of Bishop Caesarius of Arles (470–542). Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. In search of the vita perfecta; 2. Late Roman Arles; 3. The making of a reformer; 4. Visigothic Arles and its bishop; 5. The Ostrogothic peace; 6. Christian rhetoric and ritual action; 7. Christianity as a community religion; 8. The limits of Christianisation; 9. The coming of the Franks; 10. The legacy of Caesarius.
