Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-193).
Contents:
Introduction / Mark Williams -- The disruptive impact of Christianity in late Roman Cappadocia / Raymond Van Dam -- Constantinople: Christian city, Christian landscape / Oliver Nicholson -- Communities of the living and the dead in late antiquity and the early medieval West / Frederick S Paxton -- The Gothic intellectual community: the theology of the Skeireins / James W Marchand -- 'Seed sowers of peace': the uses of love and friendship at court and in the kingdom of Charlemagne / C Stephen Jaeger -- Scaldic poetry and early Christianity / Ásdís Egilsdóttir -- Heloise and the abbey of the Paraclete / Chrysogonus Waddell -- Communities of reform in the province of Reims: the Benedictine 'Chapter General' of 1131 / E Rozanne Elder -- When Jesus did the dishes: the transformation of late medieval spirituality / Brian Patrick McGuire.
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