Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of
the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and
everyday life of ancient Rome. "The Codex-Calendar of 354"
miraculously survived the Fall of Rome. Although it was
subsequently lost, the copies made in the Renaissance remain
invaluable documents of Roman society and religion in the years
between Constantine's conversion and the fall of the Western
Empire. In this richly illustrated book, Michele Renee Salzman
establishes that the traditions of Roman art and literature were
still very much alive in the mid-fourth century. Going beyond this
analysis of precedents and genre, Salzman also studies "The
Calendar of 354" as a reflection of the world that produced and
used it. Her work reveals the continuing importance of pagan
festivals and cults in the Christian era and highlights the rise of
a respectable aristocratic Christianity that combined pagan and
Christian practices. Salzman stresses the key role of the Christian
emperors and imperial institutions in supporting pagan rituals.
Such policies of accomodation and assimilation resulted in a
gradual and relatively peaceful transformation of Rome from a pagan
to a Christian capital.
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