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The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul (Hardcover)
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The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul (Hardcover)
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Christianity in the late antique world was not imposed but
embraced, and the laity were not passive members of their religion
but had a central role in its creation. This volume explores the
role of the laity in Gaul, bringing together the fields of history,
archaeology and theology. First, this book follows the ways in
which clergy and monks tried to shape and manufacture lay religious
experience. They had themselves constructed the category of 'the
laity', which served as a negative counterpart to their
self-definition. Lay religious experience was thus shaped in part
by this need to create difference between categories. The book then
focuses on how the laity experienced their religion, how they
interpreted it and how their decisions shaped the nature of the
Church and of their faith. This part of the study pays careful
attention to the diversity of the laity in this period, their
religious environments, ritual engagement, behaviours, knowledge
and beliefs. The first volume to examine laity in this period in
Gaul - a key region for thinking about the transition from Roman
rule to post-Roman society - The Religious Worlds of the Laity in
Late Antique Gaul fills an important gap in current literature.
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