Claire Sotinel

• Paris-Est Créteil University

The study of the transformation of public temples into churches allows an appreciation of the relationship between political power and religious conversion, for these temples were under the jurisdiction of the imperial or municipal authorities. Over the period from the beginning of the fourth century and the end of the sixth century there was a gre...

The paper takes into exam references to Ambrose in the Three Chapters Controversy. While Ambrose could have made a suitable patron for the cause of the defenders of the Three Chapters, his name was almost never made in the numerous texts produced at the time: seldom in the theological debates over the orthodoxy of the condemnation, never during the...

IntroductionNetworks of Communication in the Christian Empire in Augustine's TimeSocial Networks and Communication: The Case of AugustineConclusion Further Reading

Publication n° 20 des cahiers du "Centre de recherche en histoire et histoire de l'art. Italie, pays alpins" (CRHIPA).

Variorum Collected Studies Series, 948

IntroductionInformation and Politics in the Roman WorldAn Increasing Need for Circulation of NewsA Permanent Search for Political ControlInformation and Public OpinionInformation and the Political Fragmentation of the EmpireBibliographical Note

The Christian gift is a response to religious demand, but it is realized in the domain of material exchanges. In this respect it is at the heart of an enquiry concerning the relations between religion and the economy. This article takes into account the Christian gift in all its forms, whether alms, gifts made to the Church for the support of clerg...

The Christian gift is a response to religious demand, but it is realized in the domain of material exchanges. In this respect it is at the heart of an enquiry concerning the relations between religion and the economy. This article takes into account the Christian gift in all its forms, whether alms, gifts made to the Church for the support of clerg...

The author examines how the places of Christian worship, first conceived as houses of prayer, increasingly came to be considered as sacred places at the end of Late Antiquity. Recent research on holy places in Palestine has shown how sites of Christian memory have been sacralized. The development of the cult of relics led to a dissociation between...

The author examines how the places of Christian worship, first conceived as houses of prayer increasingly came to be considered as sacred places at the end of Late Antiquity. Recent research on holy places in Palestine has shown how sites of Christian memory have been sacralized. The development of the cult of relics led to a dissociation between s...

From a western Mediterranean point of view, the reign of Justinian may seem a brief parenthesis in the history of Europe, a failed attempt to resurrect an empire already dead. Justinian’s reconquest of Italy was brought to nothing by the Lombard invasion of 568, and North Africa fell to Muslim armies within a century. From a Roman ecclesiastical pe...

L. Ellis, F. L. Kidner (eds), Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity

The Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures, London, 2002, Antiquité tardive 11, p. 359-363

Studies in the early Middle Ages, Turnhout, 2002, Antiquité tardive 11, p. 365-366

Textes, images et monuments de l'Antiquité au haut Moyen Âge, Paris, 2002, Antiquité tardive 11, p. 373-374

This paper examines some recent publications concerning early Christianity in North-Eastern Italy. It is mostly focused on Rajko Bratož, Il Cristianesimo aquileiese prima di Costantino fra Aquileia e Poetovio (Ricerche per la storia della chiesa in Friuli 2), Udine-Gorizia, 1999 and Mark Humphries, Communities of the Blessed: Social Environment and...

Claire Sotinel, Autorité pontificale et pouvoir impérial sous le règne de Justinien : le pape Vigile, p. 439-463. Le pape Vigile, qui siège de 537 à 556, n'est en général connu que pour avoir souscrit à la condamnation des Trois Chapitres, qui devait susciter en Italie un schisme durable, ou pour être un des premiers papes «scandaleux», arrivé au...

Claire Sotinel, Arator, un poète au service de la politique du pape Vigile?, p. 805-820. Un texte d'une authenticité certaine, daté de 544, rapporte que le poète Arator offrit solennellement au pape Vigile son poème De actibus apostolorum, et qu'il reçut l'autorisation d'en donner une lecture publique dans l'église de Saint-Pierre-aux-liens. Bien...