Pagan Cityand Christian Capital, Rome in the Fourth Century
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loginPapers and books about Christianising the Roman Empire oughtnot to be encouraged . . . The concept is so big an aspect of LateAntiquity as to be all but beyond the control of the historian, andadmits of so many layers of meaning and varieties of interpretationthat it is in danger of becoming meaningless. If and when we havearrived at some understanding of the term, and of what factors mayhave led people to change to being Christians from having beensomething else, it is still hard to know what it would mean to anyindividual to shift religious allegiance in the generations afterConstantine.
