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Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul

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Description for Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC1; HRCC7; HRCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.

Lisa Kaaren Bailey's Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul is the first major study of the Eusebius Gallicanus collection of anonymous, multi-authored sermons from fifth- and sixth-century Gaul. Bailey sheds new light on these sermons, which were strikingly popular and influential from late antiquity to the High Middle Ages, as the large number of surviving manuscripts attests. They were used for centuries by clergy as a preaching guide and by monks and pious lay people as devotional reading.

Bailey's analysis demonstrates the extent to which these stylistically ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268022242
SKU
V9780268022242
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About Lisa Bailey
Lisa Kaaren Bailey is a senior lecturer in the Departments of Classics and Ancient History and of History at the University of Auckland.

Reviews for Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul
“This is a model study. With a deft survey of the evidence and an eye for telling detail, Lisa Bailey has substantially added to our understanding of preaching, modes of persuasion, and everyday religious practice in late antique Gaul. Sins and sinners, problems of faith, the troubling facts of injustice, the shared work of salvation—all are illuminated in this penetrating ... Read more

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