Lisa Kaaren Bailey is Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul (2010).

…an exemplary study of the interaction between Christian authority figures and those over whom they claimed pastoral oversight. It deserves to be read by anyone interested in the construction (and contestation) of Christian identity in late antiquity.

• AcknowledgementsNote on translationsAbbreviations Introduction 1. Laity, clergy and ascetics 2. Environments 3. Urban case-studies 4. Rituals 5. Behaviours 6. Knowledge and belief Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Lisa Kaaren Bailey is Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul (2010).

…an exemplary study of the interaction between Christian authority figures and those over whom they claimed pastoral oversight. It deserves to be read by anyone interested in the construction (and contestation) of Christian identity in late antiquity.

• AcknowledgementsNote on translationsAbbreviations Introduction 1. Laity, clergy and ascetics 2. Environments 3. Urban case-studies 4. Rituals 5. Behaviours 6. Knowledge and belief Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Lisa Kaaren Bailey is Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul (2010).

…an exemplary study of the interaction between Christian authority figures and those over whom they claimed pastoral oversight. It deserves to be read by anyone interested in the construction (and contestation) of Christian identity in late antiquity.

• AcknowledgementsNote on translationsAbbreviations Introduction 1. Laity, clergy and ascetics 2. Environments 3. Urban case-studies 4. Rituals 5. Behaviours 6. Knowledge and belief Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index