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The Fall of the Roman Household (Hardcover, New)
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Edward Gibbon laid the fall of the Roman Empire at Christianity's
door, suggesting that 'pusillanimous youth preferred the penance of
the monastic to the dangers of a military life ... whole legions
were buried in these religious sanctuaries'. This surprising study
suggests that, far from seeing Christianity as the cause of the
fall of the Roman Empire, we should understand the Christianisation
of the household as a central Roman survival strategy. By
establishing new 'ground rules' for marriage and family life, the
Roman Christians of the last century of the Western empire found a
way to re-invent the Roman family as a social institution to
weather the political, military, and social upheaval of two
centuries of invasion and civil war. In doing so, these men and
women - both clergy and lay - found themselves changing both what
it meant to be Roman, and what it meant to be Christian.
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