Caesarius of Arles(1st Edition) The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) द्वारा WilliamE. Klingshirn Hardcover, 344 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 1994 द्वारा Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-43095-1, ISBN: 0-521-43095-X
"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 (470SH542 AD) 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. Th ..."
"From the very beginning Christianity was a religion of books--a lived, but also a written faith. The essays in this collection focus on the ways in which books were produced, used, treasured, and conceptualized in the early Christian centuries (AD 100--600). During this crucial period, just after the New Testament writings were composed, Christianity grew from the religion of a tiny minority in the eastern Roman Empire to the religion o ..."
"Caesarius was born in 469/70 and served as Bishop of Arles from 502 until his death in 542. Originally trained as a monk at Lérins, he devoted himself as Bishop to an ambitious programme of church reform and Christianization inspired by strict monastic standards of piety. Best known as a preacher, with a corpus of over 250 sermons, Caesarius also founded a monastery whose rule he composed and presided over several important church counc ..."
Caesarius of Arles The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) द्वारा WilliamE. Klingshirn Paperback, 344 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2004 द्वारा Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-52852-8, ISBN: 0-521-52852-6
"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 (470SH542 AD) 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. Th ..."
The Limits of Ancient Christianity(1st Edition) Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R. A. Markus (Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts) द्वारा WilliamE. Klingshirn, Robert Austin Markus, Mark Vessey Hardcover, 376 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 1999 द्वारा University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-10997-5, ISBN: 0-472-10997-9
"Once considered a period of decline, Late Antiquity (third through eighth centuries C.E.) is now seen as a creative period of transition between the ancient and medieval worlds. Ostensibly an "otherworldly" religion, Christianity became a powerful worldly cultural force. But this power was shaped and severely limited by a large number of factors, including its own highly diverse traditions, scriptures, practices, and theologies. William ..."
" From the very beginning Christianity was a religion of books--a lived, but also a written faith. The essays in this collection focus on the ways in which books were produced, used, treasured, and conceptualized in the early Christian centuries (AD 100-600). During this crucial period, just after the New Testament writings were composed, Christianity grew from the religion of a tiny minority in the eastern Roman Empire to the ..."
My Lots are in Thy Hands Sortilege and Its Practitioners in Late Antiquity (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; Volume 188) द्वारा Annemarie Luijendijk, WilliamE. Klingshirn Hardcover, 392 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2018 द्वारा Brill ISBN-13: 978-90-04-38410-1, ISBN: 90-04-38410-3
"Sortilege--the making of decisions by casting lots--was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Klingshirn have collected fourteen essays that examine late antique lot divination, especially but not exclusively through texts preserved in ..."