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What makes a church sacred? : legal and ritual perspectives from late antiquity /

"If churches belong to no one, what is their purpose? Mary K. Farag persuasively demonstrates that three interest groups cared about this question in late antiquity: law-makers, Christian leaders, and wealthy lay-persons. Most of the time, their answers co-existed, sitting side-by-side like tec...

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Main Author:	Farag, Mary, 1985- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Series:	Transformation of the classical heritage ; 63.
Subjects:	Church property > Law and legislation > History. Church property (Canon law) Church property > Law and legislation > Rome. Christianity and culture > Rome. Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Biens ecclésiastiques (Droit canonique) Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive) Religion / Christian Church / History. Religion / Christian Church / Canon & Ecclesiastical Law. History / Ancient. HISTORY / Ancient / General Church property > Law and legislation. Christianity and culture. Church history > Primitive and early church. Rome (Empire) 30-600 Electronic books. History.
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