... © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 lived religion laity clericalism syncretism Christianization agency popular religion divination prophesy The following papers seek to add something new to current debates and developments in the study of late antique...

...Mark Anderson Early Christians adopted a numeric week from Judaism, but wherever their communities spread they encountered the planetary week invented by Hellenistic astrologers. Greek Christians replaced that week with their own in the fourth century C.E., but Latin Christians were only partly...

...Robin Whelan This article considers an issue surprisingly marginal both to cultural histories of late antique Christianity and political histories of the later Roman Empire: the Christian identities of imperial officials. It draws on three early sixth-century texts which tackled this problem head...