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 2007
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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