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List of Maps | p. xv |
List of Illustrations | p. xvii |
Preface | p. xix |
Wealth, Christianity, and Giving at the End of an Ancient World | p. 1 |
Aurea aetas | |
Wealth in an Age of Gold | p. 3 |
Mediocritas | |
The Social Profile of the Latin Church, 312-CA. 370 | p. 31 |
Amor civicus Love of the city | |
Wealth and its Uses in an Ancient World | p. 53 |
"Treasure in Heaven" | |
Wealth in the Christian Church | p. 72 |
An Age of Affluence | p. 91 |
Symmachus | |
Being Noble in Fourth-Century Rome | p. 93 |
Avidus civicae gratiae Greedy for the good favor of the city | |
Symmachus and the People of Rome | p. 110 |
Ambrose and His People | p. 120 |
"Avarice, the Root of All Evil" | |
Ambrose and Northern Italy | p. 135 |
Augustine Spes saeculi | |
Careerism, Patronage and Religious Bonding, 354-384 | p. 148 |
From Milan to Hippo | |
Augustine and the Making of a Religious Community, 384-396 | p. 161 |
"The Life in Common of a Kind of Divine and Heavenly Republic" Augustine on Public and Private in a Monastic Community | p. 173 |
Ista vero saecularia Those things, indeed, of the world | |
Ausonius, Villas, and the Language of Wealth | p. 185 |
Ex opulentissimo divite From being rich as rich can be | |
Paulinus of Nola and the Renunciation of Wealth, 389-395 | p. 208 |
Commercium spiritale The spiritual Exchange | |
Paulinus of Nola and the Poetry of Wealth, 395-408 | p. 224 |
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 | p. 241 |
"To Sing the LordÆs Song in a Strange Land" | |
Jerome in Rome, 381-385 | p. 259 |
Between Rome and Jerusalem | |
Women, Patronage, and Learning, 385-412 | p. 273 |
An Age of Crisis | p. 289 |
"The Eye of a Needle" and "The Treasure of the Soul" | |
Renunciation, Nobility, and the Sack of Rome, 405-413 | p. 291 |
Tolle divitem Take away the rich | |
The Pelagian Criticism of Wealth | p. 308 |
Augustine's Africa | |
People and Church | p. 321 |
"Dialogues with the Crowd" | |
The Rich, the People, and the City in the Sermons of Augustine | p. 339 |
Dimitte nobis debita nostra Forgive us our sins | |
Augustine, Wealth, and Pelagianism, 411-417 | p. 359 |
"Out of Africa" Wealth, Power, and the Churches, 415-430 | p. 369 |
"Still at That Time a More Affluent Empire" | |
The Crisis of the West in the Fifth Century | p. 385 |
Aftermaths | p. 409 |
Among the Saints | |
Marseilles, Arles, and Lérins, 400-440 | p. 411 |
Romana respublica vel iam mortua With the empire now dead and gone | |
Salvian and his Gaul, 420-450 | p. 433 |
Ob Italiae securitatem For the security of Italy | |
Rome and Italy, CA. 430-CA. 530 | p. 454 |
Toward Another World | p. 479 |
Patrimonia pauperum Patrimonies of the poor | |
Wealth and Conflict in the Churches of the Sixth Century | p. 481 |
Servator fidei, patriaeque semper amator Guardian of the Faith, and always lover of [his] homeland | |
Wealth and Piety in the Sixth Century | p. 503 |
Conclusion | p. 527 |
Abbreviations | p. 531 |
Notes | p. 533 |
Works Cited | |
Primary Sources | p. 641 |
Secondary Sources | p. 654 |
Index | p. 719 |
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