The care of the dead in late antiquity /

In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. Through a careful reading of prim...

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Main Author: Rebillard, Éric (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Series:Cornell studies in classical philology ; 59.
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