Questions of history of christianity: Antiquity

Teacher(s)

Auwers Jean-Marie; Mahieu Vincent;

Language

French

Main themes

These objectives will be achieved after an analysis on a specific question about ancient Church history (historical, litterary, theological and when needed archeological aspects). The analysed texts will be situated in their historical and theological contexts.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	At the end of this activity, the student will be able to - carry out personal research on a specific question about ancient Church history (historical, litterary and theological aspects); - read critically ancient historical sources; - use the main tools in the field.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Content

Christians in the 4th century Rome
This course will seek to present the state of our knowledge on the construction of Christian time and space in the fourth century Rome. Topics will include the historiography of the Late Antique Rome, the festivals and rhythms of the annual liturgical cycle, the cult of martyrs, the imperial churches, the tituli, the Damasus' project, the interaction between Chistian and traditional times and spaces.

Bibliography

BRANDENBURG H., Ancient churches of Rome from the fourth to the seventh century. The dawn of Christian architecture in the West (Bibliothèque de l'Antiquité tardive, 8), Turnhout, 2005.
BROWN P. , LIZZI TESTA R., Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire : The Breaking of a Dialogue (IVth-VIth Century A.D.) (Christianity and History, 9). Berlin, 2011.
CURRAN J. R., Pagan city and Christian capital: Rome in the fourth century (Oxford classical monographs), Oxford, 2000 [pas disponible à l'UCL]
KRAUTHEIMER R., Rome, portait d'une ville (312-1308) (Le livre de poche. Références. Art, 562), Paris, 1999 (éd. orig., 1980).
MAYEUR J.-M., PIETRI C. et L., VAUCHEZ A., e. a., dir., 1995, Histoire du christianisme des origines à nos jours, t. II : Naissance d'une chrétienté (250-430), Paris, 1995 [chapitres de PERRIN M.-Y., « Le nouveau style missionnaire : la conquête de l’espace et du temps » et de GUYON J., , « L’Église de Rome du IVe siècle à Sixte III (312-432) »].
McMULLEN R., Christianisme et paganisme du IVe au VIIIe siècle, Paris, 1998 (éd. orig., 1996).
MULRYAN M., Spatial ‘christianisation’ in context: strategic intramural building in Rome from the 4th-7th c. AD, Oxford, 2014.
PIETRI C., Roma Christiana. Recherches sur l'Eglise de Rome, son organisation, sa politique, son idéologie de Miltiade à Sixte III (311-440) (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 224), Rome, 1976.
RATTI S., Antiquus error. Les ultimes feux de la résistance païenne (Bibliothèque de l'Antiquité Tardive, 14), Turnhout, 2010.

Faculty or entity

TEBI