Examines the nature of the changes that transformed the Christian world from the fourth to the end of the sixth century.

Sixteen essays explore the end of ancient Christianity

How has Christianity through the ages actually been lived and experienced by ordinary Christians? To address this question, this volume shifts the focus from va

This volume brings together studies of a diverse collection of sources ù patristic texts, apocrypha, medicinal treatises, hagiography, pseudepigrapha, papyri,