Table of Contents:
  • Intersecting religion and urbanity in late antiquity
  • A tale of no cities
  • The children of Cain
  • Faith and the city in the 4th century CE
  • Intellectualizing religion in the cities of the Roman Empire
  • The city of the dead or: the making of a cultural geography
  • A new “topography of devotion”
  • City of prophecies
  • Creating a city of believers: Rabbula of Edessa
  • Sacred spaces and new cities in the Byzantine East
  • Roman baths as locations of religious practice
  • Index