Table of contents for The making of Christian communities in late antiquity and the Middle ages / [edited by] Mark Williams.

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Introduction                                           I
Chapter I. The Disruptive Impact of
Christianity in Late Roman Cappadocia               7
1. New Patterns of Behavior                          9
2. New Histories                                     15
3. Lost Histories                                   19
4. Mosoch the Founder                               22
Chapter 2. Constantinople: Christian City,
Christian Landscape                                 27
Chapter 3. Communities of the Living and the
Dead in Late Antiquity and the Early
Medieval West                                       49
Chapter 4. The Gothic Intellectual Community:
The Theology of the Skeireins                       63
Chapter 5. 'Seed-sowers of Peace': The Uses of
Love and Friendship at Court and in
the Kingdom of Charlemagne                          77
Chapter 6. Scaldic Poetry and Early
Christianity                                        93
viii The Making of Christian Communities
Chapter 7. Heloise and the Abbey of the
Paraclete                                          103
Chapter 8. Communities of Reform in
the Province of Reims: The Benedictine
'Chapter General' of 1131                          117
Background                                         118
Present Questions                                  120
The Abbots                                          121
The Abbeys                                          122
Abbots by Rank                                      122
The Veteran Abbots                               123
The Middlers                                     123
The Freshmen                                     123
The Latecomers                                   124
The Alumni                                       124
Conclusions                                        127
Chapter 9. When Jesus Did the Dishes:
The Transformation of Late Medieval
Spirituality                                       131
St Joseph and his Family                             133
Jean Gerson and the Renewal of
Theological Discourse                                135
Gerson's Josephina: A New Spiritual Hero             139
The Meaning of Gerson's Devotion to St Joseph        148
Notes                                                153