History/Medieval Studies 401

Syllabus: 
 Structure
 Schedule 

Readings: 
 Book List 
 Reserve Readings
 Authors

Chronologies: 
 Rise of Christianity
 Christianization

Handouts: 
 Roman Names
 Evolution of Christian Message
 Emperors

Links

RESERVE READING LIST, HOWARD TILTON LIBRARY: 

Alföldi, Andreas. The Conversion of Constantine and Pagan Rome.  Translated by H. Mattingly.  Oxford, 1948.    937.08.A388Ym 

Ammianus Marcellinus.  Ammianus Marcellinus. Vols. 1-3. Translated by J. C. Rolfe. Cambridge, Ma, 1957-63, Loeb Classical Library.  878.Am63Br., under History 303 

The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325.  Vols. 1-10.  Buffalo, N.Y., 1885-96.   Vols. 3 and 7 on reserve, 281.3.A627X 

Aristides, Aelius. Aelius Aristides and the Sacred Tales.  Translated by C. A. Behr.  Amsterdam, 1968.   PA3874.A7Z5 

Arnold, E. A.  Roman Stoicism, being Lectures on the History of Stoic Philosophy with Special  Reference to its Development within the Roman Empire.  London, 1958.   B528.A7 

Athanassiadi-Fowden, P.  Julian and Hellenism: An Intellectual Biography.  Oxford, 1981. DG317.A84 (1981) 

Barker, John.  Justinian and the Later Roman Empire.  Madison, 1966.   DF572.B35, under History 303 

Barnes, Timothy D.  Constantine and Eusebius.  Cambridge, Ma, 1981.   DG315.B35 

Bowersock, G. W.  Julian the Apostate.  Cambridge, 1978.   DG317.B68, under History 303 

Brandon, S. G. F.  Jesus and the Zealots: A Study of the Political Factor in Primitive Christianity.  Manchester, 1967.    BM175.Z4B7 

Bregman, Jay.  Synesius of Cyrene, Philosopher-Bishop.  Berkeley, 1982.  BR1720.S9B72 

Brown, Raymond and J. P. Meier.  Antioch and Rome: New Testament Cradles of Catholic  Christianity.  New York, 1983.   BS2370.B76 (1983) 

Burkert, Walter.  Ancient Mystery Cults   Cambridge, Ma, 1987.  BL610.B87 (1987) 

Burkert, Walter.  Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrifical Ritual and Myth.  Berkeley, 1983.  BL788.B8713 (1983) 

Cicero, M. Tullius.  De Re Publica, De Legibus.   Translated by C. W. Keyes.  London, 1928, Loeb Classical Library vol. 16.    PA3611.A1 vol. 213 

Cornford, Francis M. Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato.  London, 1937  888.P716tYcx; 
 reissued 1952; B387.A5C65 (1952) 

Cumont, Franz.  The Mysteries of Mithra.  New York, 1958.   BL1585.C83 (1958) 

Cumont, Franz.  Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism.  New York, 1956.  292.0971O 

Dill, Samuel.  Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire.  2nd edition. London, 1905.  913.37.D5810 

Dillon, John.  The Middle Platonists: A Study of Platonism, 80 B.C. to A.D. 200  Ithaca, N.Y., 1977.   B517.D54 

Eadie, John, ed.   The Conversion of Constantine.  Huntington, N.Y., 1976.  BR180.E2 (1976); under History 303 

Fox, Robin Lane.  Pagans and Christians.  New York, 1986.   BR128.R7.L36 (1986) 

Frend, W. H. C.   The Donatist Church: A Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa.  2nd ed., Oxford, 1985.   BT1370.F7 (1985) 

Frend, W. H. C.  Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church: A Study of Conflict from  Maccabees to Donatus.  Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1981.  BR1604.2.F7 (1981) 

Frend, W. H. C. The Rise of Christianity.  Philadelphia, 1984.  BR162.2.F733 (1984), under 
History 303 

Frend, W. H. C.  Rise of  the Monophysite Movement: Chapters in the History of the Church in  the Fifth and Sixth Centuries.  Cambridge, 1972.   BT1425.F73, under History 303 

Grant, Robert M.  Gnosticism and Early Christianity.  New York, 1954.   290.8.L471 n.s. no. 5 

Guthrie, W. K. C.  The Greeks and Their Gods.  Boston, 1955.  BL781.G8 (1955) 

Harl, Kenneth W.  Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, 180-275 A.D. Berkeley, 1987.   CJ969.H37 (1987) 

Harnack, Adolf von.  The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries.  Vols. 1-2. 
London, 1904-05.   BR165.H4 (1904) 

Jones, A. H. M.  Constantine and the Conversion of Europe .  London, 1970.  BR180.J6 (1970) under History 303 

Julian the Apostate. Works   Vols. 1-3 vols Translated by W. C. Wright. Cambridge, Ma, 1959-63, Loeb Classical Library.  888.J94Xw 

Lactantius; SEE ABOVE ANTE NICENE FATHERS VOL. 7 

Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G  Continuity and Change in Roman Religion. Oxford, 1975.  BL802.L53 

Lieu, Samuel.  Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China: A Historical  Study.  Manchester, 1985.   BT1410.L47 (1985) 

MacMullen, Ramsay. Christianizing the Roman Empire A.D. 100-400 (New Haven, 1984) 
BR195.E9M33 (1984), under History 303 

MacMullen, Ramsay.  Enemies of the Roman Order: Treason, Unrest, and Alienation in the  Empire.  Cambridge, Ma, 1966.   DG78.M35 

MacMullen, Ramsay. Paganism in the Roman Empire.  New Haven, 1984.   BL802.M32, under 
History 303 

MacMullen, Ramsay.  Roman Government's Response to Crisis, 235-337 A.D.  New Haven, 1972.  DG306.M3, under History 303 

Momigliano, A.  Conflict of Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century: Essays. Cambridge, 1970.  BR205.M6  (1970) 

Mylonas, George E.  Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries.  Princeton, 1961.   292.65.m997E 

Nilsson, Martin P., The Dionysiac Mysteries in the Hellenistic and Roman Age.  New York, 1975.   BL820.B2N5 (1975) 

Nock, Arthur D.  Conversion: The Old and the New Religion from Alexander the Great to  Augustus.  Oxford, 1933.   291.N758c 

Norris, Richard A.  God and World in Early Christian Theology: A Study in Justin Martyr,  Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Origen.  London, 1967.   BT25.N6 (1967) 

Origen. Contra Celsus.  Translated by Henry Chadwick.  Cambridge, 1953.   BT1116.0735 (1953) 

Parke, H. W. and D. E. Wormell, The Delphic Oracle.  Vols. 1-2.  Oxford, 1956. 938.3.P237hX 

Parke, H. W.  The Oracles of Apollo in Asia Minor.   London, 1985.  BL820.A7P37  (1985) 

Patterson, L. G., God and History in Early Christian Thought.  New York, 1967.  BR115.H5P3 

Plotinus, The Enneads.  Translated by S. MacKenna.  London, 1969.  B693.E53M3 (1969) 

Price, S. R. F.  Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor. Cambridge, 1984. 
 DG124.P74 (1984) 

Rist, John M.  Plotinus: The Road to Reality.  Cambridge, 1977.  B693.Z7R5 

Rist, John M.  Stoic Philosophy Cambridge, 1969.   B528.R53 

Rousseau, Philip.  Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth Century Egypt.  Berkeley, 1985.   BR1720.P23R68 (1985) 

Schweitzer, Albert.  The Mysticism of the Apostlet Paul.  London, 1953.   227.S41mYm2 

 Segal, Alan.  Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee.  New Haven, 
1990.    BS2655.J4.S411 (1990) 

Sherwin-White, A. N.  Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome. Cambridge, 1967.  DG78.S45 

Tertullian, SEE ABOVE ANTE NICENE FATHERS VOL. 3 

Teixidor, J.  The Pantheon of Palmyra.  Leiden, 1979.  BL1640.T44 

Vermaseren, M. J.  Mithras, the Secret God.  London, 1963.  BL1585.V393 

Vermes, Geza.  Jesus the Jew: A Historian’s Reading of the Gospels.  Philadelphia, 1981. 
 BT202.V45 (1981) 

Wallis, R. T.  Neoplatonism.  London, 1972. B517.W33 

Wilken, Robert L.  Christians as the Romans Saw Them.  New Haven, 1986.  BL2756.W54 (1986) 

Wilken, Robert L.  John Chrysostom and the Jews.  New Haven, 1983.   BR65.C46W54 (1983) 

Williams, Stephen. Diocletian and the Roman Recovery.  London, 1985 DG313.W54, under History 303 

Alföldi, Andreas.  A Conflict of Ideas in the Late Roman Empire: The Clash between the Senate and Valentinian I.  Translated by H. Mattingly.  Oxford, 1952.  DG.323.A33 (1979). 

Apuleius, Lucius.  The Golden Ass, being the Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius.  Revised and translated by S. Gesellae.  Cambridge, Ma, 1915, Loeb Classical Library.  878.A655mX1 

Barnes, Timothy D. Athanasaius and Constantine.  Cambridge, Ma, 1993. BR1720.A7.B37 (1993) 

Barnes, Timothy D.  Tertullian:  A Historical and Literary Study.  Oxford, 1983. BR1720.T3B37 

Baynes, Norman H.  Byzantine Studies and Other Essays. Oxford, 1955.  DF503.B33 (1974) 

Baynes, Norman H. "Constantine the Great and the Christian Church." Proceedings of the British 
 Academy 15 (1929), 341-442   062.B862p, vol. 15 

Beckwith, John.  Early Christian and Byzantine Art.  New York, 1979.   N7832.B3 

Blois, L. de.  The Policy of the Emperor Gallienus.  Leiden, 1976.  DG307.5/B5713 

Bregman, Jay.  Neoplatonism and Gnosticism.  Albany, N.Y., 1992.   B517.N455 (1992) 

Brown, Peter.  The Making of Late Antiquity. Cambridge, Ma, 1968.  DG312.B76 (1968) 

Brown, Peter.  Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire. Madison, 1992 DG311.B76 (1992) 

Brown, Peter.  Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity.  Berkeley, 1982  BL805.B74 (1982) 

Brown, Raymond.  The Churches the Apostles Left Behind.  New York, New York, 1984.   BR165.B698 (1984) 

 Butler, Howard C.  Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries.  Princeton, 1929.  ARCHITECTURE 726.O9569.B985E 

Catullus.  Catullus, Tibullus and PervigiliumVeneris.  Revised edition.  ranslated by P. Cornish and J. Postgate.  Cambridge, Ma, 1962.  PA3611.A1 vol. 6 

Chadwick, Henry.  Early Christian Thought and Classical Tradition: Studies in Justin, Clement  and Origen. Oxford, 1966.   BR67.C43 (1966) 

Chadwick, Henry.  History and Though of the Early Church.  London, 1982.  BR165.C484 (1982) 

Charlesworth, James H.  The Old Testament Pseudepigraphi.  Vols. 1-2.  Garden City, N.Y., 1983-85.  BS1830.A3 (1983) and BS1700.C4 (1985). 

Corwin, Virginia.  Saint Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch.  New Haven, 1960.  281.1.I25s 

Cunliffe-Jones, H.  A History of Christian Doctrine.  Philadel-phia, 1980.  BT21.2.H57 (1980) 

Davies, William D.  Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline Theology.  2nd edition.  London, 1955.  227.D257p2 

Dodd, C. H.  The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel. Cambridge, 1953.   BS2615.D57 

Dodds, E. R.  Pagan and Christian in the Age of Anxiety:  Some Aspects of Religious  Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine.  Cambridge, 1965.   291.42.D642p 

Downey, Glanville.  A History of Antioch in Syria: from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest.   Princeton, 1961.  934.4.D748h 

Dunand, F. and P. Leveque, eds.  Les Syncretismes dans les religions de l'antiquité: colloque de Besançon, 22-23 octobre 1973.  Leiden, 1975.  BL85.S93 

Duthoy, Robert. The Taurobolium:  Its Evolution and Terminology.  Leiden, 1969. BL815.T35.D8 

Eadie, John., ed.  The Conversion of Constantine. Huntington, N.Y., 1976.   BR180.E2 (1976) 

Eusebius, In Praise of Constantine: A Historical Study and New Translation of  Eusebius’Tricennial Oration. Translated by H. Drake.  Berkeley, 1976.   DG315.D73 

Frend, W. H. C.  Religion Popular and Unpopular in the Early Christian Centuries.  London: 
1976. BR8162.2.F75 

Gough, Michael. Alahan: An Early Christian Monastery in Southern Turkey. Toronto, 1985.  NA5968.A28.A478 (1985) 

Gough, Michael.  The Origins of Christian Art.  New York, 1974.  N7632,G62 (1978). 

Grabar, A.  Christian Iconography: A Study of Its Origins.  Princeton, 1968.  N7832.66613 

 Grant, Michael. Jesus:  A Historian's Review of the Gospels. New York, 1977.  BT301.2.G68 (1977b) 

Grant, Robert M.  Augustus to Constantine: The Thrust of the Christian Movement into the  Roman World.  New York, 1970.  BR165.G66 (1970). 

Grant, Robert M.  Early Christianity: Seven Studies.  San Francisco, 1977.  BR166.G7 (1977) 

Gregg, R. C. and D. E. Groh.  Early Arianism:  A View of Sal-vation (London, 1981) BT1350.G64 (1981b) 

Gregory, Timothy E.  Vox Populi: Popular Opinion and Violence in the Religious Controversies  of the Fifth Century A.D.  Columbus, Ohio, 1979.   BR219.G73 

Hanfmanmn, George. M. A.  From Croesus to Constantine: The Cities of Western Asia Minor  and their Arts in Greek and Roman Times.  Ann Arbor, 1975.  DS155.H35 

Hardy, E. R.  Christology of the Later Fathers.  Philadelphia, 1954.   232.H268e 

Hesiod, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica.   Translated by C. Bennet.  Cambridge, Ma, 1914, Loeb Classical Library.   PA3611.A1 vol. 57 

Hinnells, J. R., ed.  Mithraic Studies, Proceedings of the First International Congress of Mithraic Studies.  Manchester, 1975.   BL1585.I57 (1975) 

Holum, Kenneth G.  Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Domination in Late Antiquity. Berkeley, 1982.  DG322.H64 (1982) 

Hopkins, Keith.  Death and Renewal.  Cambridge, 1983.  JC83.H76 (1983) 

Horace, Odes and Epodes. Translated by C. Bennet.  Cambridge, Ma, 19  , Loeb Classical Library.  878.H811xhe 

Hunt, E. D.  Holy Land Pligrimage in the Later Roman Empire, A.D. 312-460.  Oxford, 1982). BR205.H84 (1982) 

Jonas, H.  Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginning of Christianity. 
2nd  edition.  Boston, 1972.  BT1390.J62 

Kitzinger, Ernst.  Byzantine Art in the Making: Main Lines of Stylistic Development in  Mediterranean Art 3rd-7th Century.  Cambridge, Ma, 1977. N6250.K58 (1977B) 

Layton, Bentley, ed.  The Gnostic Scriptures:  A New Translation with Annotations. Garden City, New York, 1987.   BT1350.G494 (1987) 

Lucian, Works.  Vol. 5: Passing of Peregrinus, Runaways, Toxaris or Friendship, Dance, Lexipahenes.  Eunuch, Astrology, Mistaken Critic, Parliment of the Gods, Tyrranicide, and Disowned.  Translated by A. W. Harmon.  Cambridge, Ma., 1936, Loeb Classical Library. A3611.A1 vol. 302 

Markus, R. A.  Saeculum:  History and Society in the Theology of Augustine. Cambridge, 1970.  BR65.A9M33 (1970) 

Matthews, John F. Western Aristocaries and the Imperial Court, 364-425 A.D.  Oxford, 1972. 
 DG319.M37 

Meeks, Wayne A.  First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. New Haven, 1983.  BR166.M44 (1983) 

Minucius Felix, in ANTE-NICENE FATHERS Volume  4, pp. 173-198.   281.3.A627X 

Mitchell, Stephen, Anatolia: Land, Gods, and Men in Asia Minor Vols. 1-2.  Oxford, 1993. DS155.M57 (1993) 

Momigliano, A., Alien Wisdom:  The Limits of Hellenization  DG78.M6 

Oliver, J. H., Civilizing Power:  A Study of the Panathenaic Oration (TAPS n.s. 58, 1968)  L505Z.A534t 

Oulton, J. E. L.  Alexandrian Christianity: Selected Translations of Celment and Origen. Revised by Henry Chadwick.  Philadelphia, 1977.  BR65.C65 (1977) 

Parke, H. W. Oracles of Zeus:  Dodona, Olympia, and Ammon. Cambridge, 1967.  BL820.J8P36 

Pinson, Koppel S., ed.  Essays on Antisemitism. 2nd edition.  New York, 1946.  296.P658e2 

Philo Judaeus, Works Volume 1:   On the Creation: Allegorical Interpretation of Genesis II and III   Translated by P. Colson and G. Whitaker.  Cambridge, Ma, 1929, Loeb Classical Library.   PA3611.A1 vol. 363 

Philo Judaeus.  Legatio ad Gaium (On the Embassy to Gaius). Translated by S. M. Smallwood  DG135.E4P483 

Philostratus, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana Vols. 1-2. Trans. by P. Conybeare.  Cambridge, Ma, 1914-19, Loeb Classical Library.    PA3611.A1 vols. 16-17 

Plutarch, Moralia. Volume. 5:  Isis and Osiris, The E at Delphi, The Oracles at Delphi no longer given in Verse, The Obsolescence of Oracles.  Translated by F. Babbitt.  Cambridge, Ma., 1936  , Loeb Classical Library.   PA3611.A1 vol. 306 

Rice, David Talbot, Byzantine Art.  Oxford, 1935.  709.495.R495h 

Rosan, L. J., The Philosophy of Proclus: The Final Phase of Ancient Thought.  New York, 1949.  B701.Z7R6 

Rousseau, Philip.  Ascetics, Authority and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian. Oxford, 1978.  BV5023.R68 
 

Rousseau, Philip.  Basil of Caesarea.  Berkeley, 1994.  BR1720.B3.R69 (1994) 

Sellers, Robert V.  The Council of Chalcedon: A Historical and Doctrinal Survey.  London, 1953.   BR225.S4 

 Smith, Morton. Jesus the Magician.  San Francisco, 1978.  BT304.93.S63 

Theophilus of Antioch, See ANTE-NICENE FATHERS, Volume 2I, pp.. 89-121  281.3.A627X 

Todd, R. B.  Alexander of Aphrodisias on Stoic Physics.  Leiden, 1976.  B535.A63.P4737 

Vermaseren, M. J.  Cybele and Attis, the Myth and the Cult.  Translated by A. M. H. Lemmers. London, 1977.  BL820.C8.V4513 

Vernant, J.-P., ed.  Myth and Thought Among the Greeks.  London, 1983.  178.V413 (1983) 

Wallach, L., ed.  The Classical Tradition:  Literary and Historical Studies in Honor of H. Caplan. Ithaca, N.Y., 1966.  PA26.029 

Weitzmann, K., ed.  The Age of Spirituality: A Symposium.  Princeton, 1980.  N5340.A35 

White, Michael L.  Building God’s House in the Roman World: Architectural Adaption Among  Pagans, Christians, and Jews.  Baltimore, 1990.  NA4817.W55 (1990). 

Witt, Reginald E. Isis in the Graeco-Roman World.  London, 1971.  BL2450.17/W58 

Grant, Robert. The Formation of the New Testament.  New York, 1965. 
 
Hobbs, E. C. and W. Wuellner. The Role of the Christian Bishop in Society Berkeley, 1980, Center for Hermeneutical Studies, 35th Colloquy. 

King, N. Q.  The Emperor Theodosius and the Establishment of Christianity. London, 1961. 

Teixidor, J.  The Pagan God in the Greco-Roman Near East.  Princeton, 1977.