What Makes a Church Sacred? : Legal and Ritual Perspectives from Late Antiquity / Mary K. Farag.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage ; 63Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)Content type:- text
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I The Legal Making of Res Sacrae -- 1 Res Sacrae -- 2 Protected Places -- 3. Protecting Places -- Part II. The Ritual Making of Res Sacrae -- 4 Dedications -- 5 Consecrations -- 6 Anniversaries -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. The Sources of Justinian's Institutes 2.1.pr-10 -- Appendix B. Chronological List of Roman Legislation on Ecclesial Property -- Appendix C. Chronological List of Ecclesiastical Canons on Ecclesial Property -- Appendix D. Late Antique Lections for the Consecratory Ritual -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- Index LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX
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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. If churches belong to no one, what is their purpose? Mary K. Farag persuasively demonstrates that three interest groups cared about this question in late antiquity: law-makers, Christian leaders, and wealthy lay-persons. Most of the time, their answers co-existed, sitting side-by-side like tectonic plates. Yet the plates did not always sit still, and it is events on their colliding boundaries that account for familiar Christian controversies in novel ways. What Makes a Church Sacred? argues that scholarship misunderstands well-known religious figures by ignoring the legal issues they faced. In this seminal text, Farag nuances the scholarly conversations on sacred space, gift-giving, wealth, and poverty in the late antique Mediterranean world, making use not only of Latin and Greek sources, but also Coptic and Arabic evidence.
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