Church in the Late Roman Empire: the Current State of Research

M V Gratsianskiy

doi:10.18413/2312-3044-2020-7-2-169-175

Abstract

Church in the Late Roman Empire: the Current State of Research

Highlights

One of the most representative institutions of late antiquity and, according to many scholars, one of the most important signs by which late antiquity is currently distinguished in a separate historical period, which is subject to special study, is the church
Relations between the Roman state and the Church were an invariable subject of research long before the recognition of late antiquity as an independent historical period in the 1980–90s
Jones et al, which arose at a time when the concept of late antiquity had not yet been shaped and came out as part of a study of the history of the “late Roman Empire” or “early Byzantium”, were of no less, if not more, significance for the study of church subjects of the period of late antiquity

Summary

Introduction

One of the most representative institutions of late antiquity and, according to many scholars, one of the most important signs by which late antiquity is currently distinguished in a separate historical period, which is subject to special study, is the church. Relations between the Roman state and the Church were an invariable subject of research long before the recognition of late antiquity as an independent historical period in the 1980–90s.

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