Building urban Christian communities: sermons on local saints in the Eusebius Gallicanus collection
Lisa Bailey
This article uses the sermons in anonymous collection known as Eusebius Gallicanus to explore ways which preachers fifth-century Gaul tried build urban Christian communities, focusing particularly on subset of deal with local saints. In these adapt a tradition language and thought specific circumstances they faced. They seize opportunity provided by their subject matter evoke vision is urban, localized, stands contrast more ‘universal’ conceptions community.
Early Medieval Europe