Born to a provincial family of wealth, status, and privilege (ca. 353) in Roman Gaul, Meropius Pontius Paulinus entered upon the career of a Roman officeholder to which this birth virtually entitled him. It was after he had returned from this Italian service to his ancestral est…
Paulinus of Nola, courtyards, and canthari: a second look / Annewies van den Hoek and John J. Herrmann, Jr -- Thecla the beast fighter: a female emblem of deliverance in early Christian popular art / Annewies van den Hoek and John J. Herrmann, Jr -- "Two men in white:" observati…
The first Christians operated with a hierarchical model of sexual difference common to the ancient Mediterranean, with women considered to be lesser versions of men. Yet sexual difference was not completely stable as a conceptual category across the spectrum of formative Christi…
