Brown Through the Eye of a Needle

Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps xv
List of Illustrations xvii
Preface xix

Part I Wealth, Christianity, and Giving at the End of an Ancient World 1

- Chapter 1 Aurea aetas -
Wealth in an Age of Gold 3

- Chapter 2 Mediocritas -
The Social Profile of the Latin Church, 312–ca.
370 31

- Chapter 3 Amor civicus -
Love of the city -
Wealth and Its Uses in an Ancient World 53

- Chapter 4 "Treasure in Heaven" - Wealth in the Christian Church
72

Part II An Age of Affluence 91

- Chapter 5 Symmachus - Being Noble in Fourth-Century
Rome
93

- Chapter 6 Avidus civicae gratiae - Greedy for the good favor of the city - Symmachus and the People of Rome 110

- Chapter 7 Ambrose and His People
120

- Chapter 8 "Avarice, the Root of All Evil" - Ambrose and Northern Italy
135

- Chapter 9 Augustine - Spes saeculi -
Careerism, Patronage and Religious Bonding, 354–384
148

- Chapter 10 From Milan to Hippo - Augustine and the Making of a Religious Community, 384–396
161

- Chapter 11 "The Life in Common of a kind of Divine and Heavenly Republic" - Augustine on Public and Private in a Monastic Community 173

- Chapter 12 Ista vero saecularia -
Those things, indeed, of the world - Ausonius, Villas, and the Language of Wealth
185

- Chapter 13 Ex opulentissimo divite - From being rich as rich can be
Paulinus of Nola and the Renunciation of Wealth, 389–395
208

- Chapter 14 Commercium spiritale
The spiritual Exchange - Paulinus of Nola and the Poetry of Wealth, 395–408 224

- 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

- Chapter 16 "To Sing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land" - Jerome in Rome, 382–385 259

- Chapter 17 Between Rome and Jerusalem - Women, Patronage, and Learning, 385–412
273

Part III
An Age of Crisis 289

- Chapter 18 "The Eye of a Needle" and "The Treasure of the Soul" - Renunciation, Nobility, and the Sack of Rome, 405–413
291

- Chapter 19 Tolle divitem - Take away the rich - The Pelagian Criticism of Wealth 308

- Chapter 20 Augustine's Africa - People and Church 322

- Chapter 21 "Dialogues with the Crowd" - The Rich, the People, and the City in the Sermons
of Augustine
339

- Chapter 22 Dimitte nobis debita nostra - Forgive us our sins - Augustine, Wealth, and Pelagianism, 411–417 359

- Chapter 23 "Out of Africa" - Wealth, Power and the Churches, 415–430 369

- Chapter 24 "Still at that Time a More Affluent Empire" - The Crisis of the West in the Fifth Century 385

Part IV Aftermaths 409

- Chapter 25 Among the Saints - Marseilles, Arles and Lérins, 400–440 411

- Chapter 26 Romana respublica vel iam mortua - With the empire now dead and gone - Salvian and His Gaul, 420–450 433

- Chapter 27 Ob Italiae securitatem - For the security of Italy - Rome and Italy, ca. 430–ca. 530 454

Part V Toward Another World 479

- Chapter 28 Patrimonia pauperum - Patrimonies of the poor - Wealth and Conflict in the Churches
of the Sixth Century 481

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Brown is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. His many books include The World of Late Antiquity, The Rise of Western Christendom, and Augustine of Hippo.