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EARLY MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITIES,c . 600–c . 1 100
The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of allaspects of Christian experience from Late Antiquity to the FirstCrusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmlyin the context of Christianity’s many cultural manifestations andlived experiences everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, thisvolume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes theever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local andworld level. The insights of many disciplines, including genderstudies, codicology, archaeology, and anthropology, are deployedto offer fresh interpretations which challenge the conventionaltruths concerning this formative period.
Addressing eastern, Byzantine and western Christianity, itexplores encounters between Christians and others, notably Jews,Muslims, and pagans; the institutional life of the church includ-ing law, reform, and monasticism; the pastoral and sacramentalcontexts of worship, belief, and morality; and finally its culturaland theological meanings, including heresy, saints’ cults, and theafterlife.
thomas f. x . noble is Robert M. Conway Director of theMedieval Institute and Professor of History, University of NotreDame. He previously held positions at Texas Tech University andat the University of Virginia, as well as several prestigious fellow-ships in both the United States and Europe. He has written oredited six books and over thirty book chapters or journal articles.
jul ia m. h . smith is Edwards Professor of Medieval History,University of Glasgow. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Soci-ety and has previously taught at Trinity College, Hartford, CT,and at the University of St. Andrews. Professor Smith has writtennumerous journal articles and is the author or editor of four booksincluding, most recently, Europe after Rome: A New Cultural History5 00–1000 (2005).
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CHRISTIANITY
The Cambridge History of Christianity offers a comprehensive chro-nological account of the development of Christianity in all itsaspects – theological, intellectual, social, political, regional, global –from its beginnings to the present day. Each volume makes a sub-stantial contribution in its own right to the scholarship of its periodand the complete History constitutes a major work of academicreference. Far from being merely a history of western EuropeanChristianity and its offshoots, the History aims to provide a globalperspective. Eastern and Coptic Christianity are given full consider-ation from the early period onwards, and later, African, Far Eastern,New World, South Asian, and other non-European developmentsin Christianity receive proper coverage. The volumes coverpopular piety and non-formal expressions of Christian faith andtreat the sociology of Christian formation, worship, and devotionin a broad cultural context. The question of relations betweenChristianity and other major faiths is also kept in sight through-out. The History will provide an invaluable resource for scholarsand students alike.
List of volumes:
Origins to Constantineedited by margaret m. mitchell and
fr ances m. young
Constantine to c. 600
edited by august ine cas iday and freder ickw. norri s
Early Medieval Christianities c. 600–c. 1 100
edited by thomas f. x . noble and jul ia m. h . smith
Christianity in Western Europe c. 1 100–c. 1 5 00
edited by mir i rub in and walter s imon
Eastern Christianityedited by michael angold
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edited by ronnie po-chia hs ia
Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660–1 81 5
edited by stewart j. brown and timothy tackett
World Christianities c. 1 81 5 –c. 1914
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World Christianities c. 1914–c. 2000
edited by hugh m cleod
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T H E C A M B R I D G E
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C H R I S T I A N I T Y
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Contents
List of Illustrations xiList of Maps xii
List of Contributors xiiiPreface xv
Acknowledgments xixAbbreviations xxi
Introduction: Christendom, c. 600 1
peter brown
part iFOUNDATIONS: PEOPLES, PLAC ES, A ND
TRADITIONS
1 · Late Roman Christianities 21
phil ip rousseau
2 · The emergence of Byzantine Orthodoxy, 600–1095 46
andrew louth
3 · Beyond empire I: Eastern Christianities from the Persian to the Turkishconquest, 604–1071 65
igor dorfmann-lazarev
4 · Beyond empire II: Christianities of the Celtic peoples 86
thomas m. charles -edwards
5 · Germanic Christianities 107
lesley abr ams
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6 · Slav Christianities, 800–1100 1 30
jonathan shepard
part i iCHRISTIANITY IN CONFRONTAT ION
7 · Christians and Jews 1 5 9
bat - sheva albert
8 · The Mediterranean frontier: Christianity face to face with Islam, 600–10501 78
hugh kennedy
9 · Christians under Muslim rule 197
s idney h. gr iff ith
10 · Latin and Greek Christians 21 3
t ia m. kolbaba
11 · The northern frontier: Christianity face to face with paganism 230
ian n. wo od
part i i iCHRI STIANITY IN THE SOCIAL A ND POLIT IC A L
ORDER
12 · The Christian church as an institution 249
thomas f. x . noble
13 · Asceticism and its institutions 275
anne-marie helv et ius and michel k aplan
14 · Law and its applications 299
janet l . nelson
15 · The problems of property 327
rosemary morri s
16 · Ideas and applications of reform 345
jul ia barrow
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17 · Churches in the landscape 363
dominique io gna-pr at
part ivCHRISTIANITY AS LIVED EXPER IENC E
18 · Birth and death 383
freder ick s. paxton
19 · Remedies for sins 399
rob meens
20 · Sickness and healing 416
peregr ine horden
21 · Gender and the body 433
lynda l . co on
22 · Sacrifice, gifts, and prayers in Latin Christianity 45 3
arnold angenendt
23 · Performing the liturgy 472
e r ic palazzo
part vCHRISTIANITY: BOOKS AND IDEA S
24 · Visions of God 491
ala in boureau
25 · Orthodoxy and deviance 5 10
e. ann matter
26 · Making sense of the Bible 5 3 1
guy lobr ichon
27 · The Christian book in medieval Byzantium 5 5 4
lesl ie brubaker and mary b. cunningham
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28 · Saints and their cults 5 81
jul ia m. h . smith
29 · Last Things 606
jane baun
Conclusion: Christendom, c. 1100 625
john h. van engen
Bibliographies 644
Index 803
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Illustrations
Fig. 1. The orders of clergy, from the Sacramentary of Marmoutier: Autun,Bibliotheque municipale, ms. 19 bis, fol. 1r. page 480
Fig. 2. Exultet roll: Rome, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, ms. Barberini Lat. 592,fol. 1. 484
Fig. 3. Adoration of the Magi; Massacre of the Innocents; Presentation of Christin the Temple: Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, ms. Gr. 510,fol. 137r. 565
Fig. 4. Gregory of Nazianzus holds his pen and opens his book to the text: Paris,Bibliotheque nationale de France, ms. Gr. 923, fol. 255r. 566
Fig. 5. David, Christ, and the Samaritan woman at the well: Moscow, HistoricalMuseum, cod. 129, fol. 33r. 567
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Map 1. The Christian Mediterranean page xxiiiMap 2. The Christian East xxiv–xxvMap 3. Western Europe xxvi–xxviiMap 4. The Slavic World xxviiiMap 5. The British Isles xxix
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lesley abr ams, Fellow of Balliol College and Lecturer in the Faculty of History, Univer-sity of Oxford
bat - sheva albert, Professor of Medieval History, Department of General History, BarIlan University
arnold angenendt, Emeritus Professor, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munsterjul ia barrow, Reader in Medieval Church History, School of History, University of
Nottinghamjane baun, Greyfriars Hall and Faculty of Theology, University of Oxfordala in boureau, Centre de recherches historiques, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences
sociales, Parispeter brown, Rollins Professor of History, History Department, Princeton Universitylesl ie brubaker , Professor of Byzantine Art History; Director, Centre for Byzantine,
Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies; Associate Director, Institute of Archaeology andAntiquity, University of Birmingham
thomas m. charles -edwards, Jesus Professor of Celtic, University of Oxfordlynda l . co on, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Arkansasmary b. cunningham, Lecturer, Department of Theology, University of Nottingham;
Honorary Fellow, Institute of Advanced Research in Humanities and Social Sciences,University of Birmingham
igor dorfmann-lazarev, Lecturer in Greek and Oriental Patristics, Department ofTheology and Religion, Durham University
s idney h. gr iffith, Ordinary Professor, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Lan-guages and Literatures, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
anne-marie helv et ius, Professor of Medieval History, Centre de recherches his-toriques, Universite Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint-Denis)
peregr ine horden, Professor of Medieval History, Department of History, Royal Hol-loway University of London
dominique io gna-pr at, Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique, Parismichel k aplan, Professeur d’histoire Byzantine, Unite de formation et de recherche
d’histoire, Universite Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne)hugh kennedy, Professor of Arabic, School of Oriental and African Studies, Londont ia m. kolbaba , Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Rutgers Universityguy lobr ichon, Professeur d’histoire du Moyen Age, Universite d’Avignon
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andrew louth, Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, Department of Theologyand Religion, Durham University
e. ann matter , William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Uni-versity of Pennsylvania
rob meens, Universitair docent, Instituut Geschiedenis, Universiteit Utrechtrosemary morri s, Visiting Fellow, Department of History, University of Yorkjanet l . nelson, Professor Emerita, Department of History, King’s College Londonthomas f. x . noble, Professor of History, Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval
Institute, University of Notre Damee r ic palazzo, Professeur d’histoire de l’art du Moyen Age, Directeur du Centre d’etudes
superieures de civilisation medievale, Universite de Poitiersfreder ick s. paxton, Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor of History, Department of
History, Connecticut Collegephil ip rousseau, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies; Director, Cen-
ter for the Study of Early Christianity, The Catholic University of America, Washington,DC.
jonathan shepard, Formerly University Lecturer in History, University ofCambridge
jul ia m. h . smith, Edwards Professor of Medieval History, Department of History,University of Glasgow
john h. van engen, Andrew V. Tackes Chair of Medieval History, Department ofHistory, University of Notre Dame
ian n. wo od, Professor of Early Medieval History, School of History, University of Leeds
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Christianity arose, spread, and strengthened its claims on people’s lives in theancient world in the period covered by volumes 1 and 2 of the Cambridge Historyof Christianity. Volume 3 treats the history of Christianity during the centuriesusually labeled “early medieval” that stretch from about 600 to about 1100.This long, dynamic, and creative era saw both the consolidation of ancientChristianity’s achievements and dramatic new developments.
One way to grasp the changes and continuities that marked the earlymedieval period is to read the first and last chapters in this volume. Theopening one presents a panoramic view of Christianity in about 600 withoccasional looks into the past and glimpses of the future. The closing chaptertakes a similarly panoramic view in about 1100. In 600 Christianity was stillfundamentally a Mediterranean phenomenon. Almost all its creative centershugged the shores of the inland sea, as did its key administrative sites. The vastmajority of all Christians then alive lived within two hundred miles of the sea.Christianity’s most impressive territorial expansion beyond the Mediterraneanbasin lay in the east and in Africa. Western Europe was just then becomingvisible as a potential site of growth and development. By 1100 Christianity’s cre-ative core was located squarely in western Europe. The rapid and continuousexpansion of Islam had diminished Christianity’s presence in MediterraneanEurope and Africa, as well as in central and western Asia. Islam also consti-tuted a persistent challenge for Byzantium and thus for Orthodox Christianity.Indeed, Byzantium’s reach shortened not only in the eastern Mediterraneanbut also in the north where Avar, Bulgar, and Slav peoples and states chal-lenged historic Byzantine claims. Christianity had meanwhile spread to everycorner of Europe itself, with the exception of some areas lying along the east-ern Baltic. If places such as Antioch and Alexandria had been the intellectualpowerhouses of ancient Christianity, sites such as Winchester, Cologne, Paris,and Chartres were the dominant influences in the centuries on either side ofthe turn of the millennium.
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In the dawning twenty-first century Christianity is very much a world reli-gion, increasingly marginalized in Europe but vigorous on other continents.The early medieval centuries inaugurated a long period when Christianityseemed to be an essentially European phenomenon that in due course wasexported, eventually in both Catholic and Protestant versions, to much ofthe rest of the globe. Today’s congeries of Christianities artfully blend peo-ples, localities, languages, cultures, and historical experiences. That is whatthe Christianities of 600 also looked like, and it is still what they looked likein 1100, albeit the center of gravity had shifted to the north and west and theforces of homogeneity were becoming evident.
This volume is entitled Early Medieval Christianities. The use of the plural isnot meant to deny that all Christians could trace their roots to the Mediter-ranean world of Antiquity, or that they took inspiration from versions of thesame scriptures, or that they worshiped in tolerably similar ways, or that theirchurches shared many legal and institutional features. Instead, the plural sig-nals the futility of speaking in overly generalized terms about an ever-changingreligion that extended from Ireland to Afghanistan, from Norway to Nubia.Christianity transformed every people and culture with which it came intocontact but it was itself transformed by peoples, cultures, antecedent histo-ries, and even by landscapes. The plural, in short, denotes not chaos, confusion,or disunity, but richness, creativity, and complexity.
What is more, Christianity must be understood in a variety of complemen-tary ways that, taken together, again urge the descriptive plural. Christianityis an ecclesial phenomenon everywhere, but it evolved very different kindsof churches and of ecclesiological conceptions to sustain and explain thosechurches. Christianity is also a body of teachings to which people grant vary-ing assents of mind and heart and body. Those positions had to be defined,articulated, and transmitted. In Antiquity they were frequently the occasionof bitter strife. In the early Middle Ages there were fewer doctrinal quarrels,but there were also large bodies of Christians who did not believe all the samethings and who had relatively little to do with each other. Christianity alsoattends the major moments of life from birth to death; it is lived experienceas much as or more than a set of doctrinal formulations. Ancient Christian-ity was a fundamentally urban phenomenon. Cities were not a conspicuousfeature of early medieval Europe. Curiously, however, Christianity retainedstructures, practices, and outlooks that were essentially urban even as it tookroot in what were essentially rural and agrarian societies. Adaptation and localparticularity are equally evident in that respect. No matter what place, time,
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or topic engages our attention, we cannot usefully reduce Christianity to asingular phenomenon.
An awareness of these basic guiding principles will help the reader to graspthe arrangement of this volume and to see the connective tissue that holdsthe organizational skeleton together. The volume’s first part constitutes ageographical and historical tour of the major, identifiable regions within whichChristianity either extended its ancient achievements or else began anew. Thefirst chapter in this part surveys the late Roman scene and the followingones explore the Byzantine world, the many forms of eastern Christianity,and then Christianity in Slavic, Germanic, and Celtic lands. The volume’snext part addresses explicitly encounters between Christianity and Judaism;Christianity’s confrontation with Islam, both along its expanding frontiersand within the caliphate; meetings between Greek and Latin Christians; and,finally, Christianity’s lengthy engagement with Germanic and Slav paganism.These two sections emphasize the broader political, cultural, and religiousmilieux which helped to shape early medieval Christianities.
The next set of chapters deals with what might be broadly characterizedas institutional issues: ecclesiastical organization, monasticism and asceticism,the making and implementing of law, property and material concerns, ideas ofreform, and locations of cult. Unlike the chapters in the first two parts whichtend to focus on specific regions or incidences of cultural contact, the chaptersin part 3 range widely across all the Christianities included in this volume.They balance a high level of generalization with enough concrete examplesand case studies to make key issues both clear and vivid.
The volume’s fourth part takes up critical themes in the history and practiceof Christianity as a lived experience with particular attention to the sacramentallife of the church and its Christian communities. Its premise is that modes ofworship, ritual, and prayer tell us a good deal about what people believed, orabout what they were expected to believe. Rites that attended birth and deathopen the discussion. Penance, both the practice of penance and ideas of sinand redemption, follows the discussion of baptism and final anointing. Therefollows a treatment of sickness and healing that combines reflections on bothmedical and spiritual remedies. The ensuing chapter explores gender, sexuality,and the body. This chapter permits insights into how writers talked about thepeople, both lay and clerical, who actually were the Christians of the earlymedieval period. The part concludes with a two-fold discussion of worship:the theology behind the celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy, everywherethe church’s central act of worship, and the performance of the liturgy itself,including some discussion of the books needed for that performance.
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The fifth and last part in the volume treats intellectual and cultural issues thatpertain to both formal learning and to Christianity’s imaginary. The lead chap-ter discusses some of the myriad ways in which early medieval people thoughtand wrote about God. The next addresses “God-talk,” theology, directly byinquiring into doctrinal quarrels. These were fewer in number and intensitythan those in Antiquity and perhaps less deeply rooted in the ordinary experi-ence of most early medieval Christianities. The Bible, always and everywherethe crucial Christian book, or collection of books, is treated in its textual andinterpretive frameworks. Books as objects, with particular attention to thebooks of the eastern Christian tradition, come in for a thorough discussion.Saints, the holy men and women who were thought to have lived exemplarylives, are analyzed for what they can teach us about the aspirations and expec-tations of ecclesiastical elites and ordinary believers. Finally, appropriately, the“Last Things” conclude the volume: How did Christians imagine the otherworld, the world beyond the grave?
Taken overall, this volume presents the reader with the main ways in whichtwenty-first-century scholars imagine the other world of early medieval Chris-tianities. The interpretations offered here can never be definitive: much in thepages which follow challenges and refreshes debates or assumptions that havelong been deeply embedded in the history of Christianity. In reappraising them,the book dislodges some issues from the center of attention and substitutesother, more timely ones for the rapidly changing world of the third Christianmillennium. It is hoped that it will challenge and refresh those who read it, aspreparing it has its editors and contributors.
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Acknowledgments
Editing this volume has been much more of a collaborative effort than thepresence of the editors’ names on the title page might imply: we acknowledgewholeheartedly the role of all the contributors in helping bring it into being.All have responded graciously to our suggestions about the content and pre-sentation of their chapters, and many have provided us with expert advice andguidance on a wide range of specific details. They have also borne unforeseenand unavoidable delays in the editorial process with good grace and patience,for which both editors are deeply grateful.
This undertaking could not have been realized without the extremely gen-erous financial and practical support of the University of Notre Dame. At NotreDame, the Medieval Institute and Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Artsjointly defrayed the costs of bringing contributors together from three con-tinents, whilst the McKenna Center provided an ideal environment in whichcolleagues exchanged vigorous and stimulating critiques of each other’s draftchapters. This colloquium enabled the volume to acquire a coherence whicheditorial guidance alone could not have achieved, and the pages which fol-low are an expression of participants’ appreciation of the intellectual stimulusand geniality of those three days. At all stages of the preparation of the bookfrom conference to impeccable typescript in paper and electronic formats,Roberta Baranowski, the Medieval Institute’s Assistant Director, has providedinvaluable administrative support and sub-editorial energy: it is a pleasure toacknowledge publicly our profound debt to her.
Two translators applied their linguistic sensitivity and subject area knowl-edge to original German and French texts from our chapter authors and pro-duced English versions. Dr. Rona Johnston Gordon, University of St. Andrews,provided the translation, from the German, for Professor Angenendt’s chapter.Andrew Irving, University of Notre Dame, translated the chapters by Profes-sors Boureau, Helvetius and Kaplan, Iogna-Prat, Lobrichon, and Palazzo fromthe French.
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We are equally indebted to all those at Cambridge University Press who havebeen involved with this volume: Kevin Taylor for the invitation to undertakeit; his successor in charge of the Religion desk, Kate Brett, and her assistant,Gillian Dadd, for their generous supply of moral support, practical help andpatient forebearance at all times; and Liz Davey for overseeing productionwith great efficiency. The Press kindly took on responsibility for the index.
In the final stages of production, Christopher Riches, of Riches EditorialServices, meticulously coordinated the correction of the proofs and improvedthe book in many other significant ways. We are immensely grateful for hisexceptional professionalism.
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AASS Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur. Ed. J. Bollandus etal. Antwerp and Brussels, 1634–.
Bede, HE Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. Ed. and trans. B.Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History ofthe English People. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 1969.
BMFD Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents: A CompleteTranslation of the Surviving Founders’ Typika and Testaments.Ed. J. Thomas and A. C. Hero, with G. Constable. 5 vols.Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2000.
CC Corpus christianorumCCCM Corpus christianorum continuatio mediaevalisCCSG Corpus christianorum series graecaCCSL Corpus christianorum series latinaCSCO Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientaliumCSEL Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorumDOP Dumbarton Oaks PapersEME Early Medieval EuropeHaddan and A. W. Haddan and W. Stubbs, eds. Councils andStubbs Ecclesiastical Documents Relating to Great Britain and Ireland.
3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869–78.Histoire du Les eglises d’orient et d’occident. Ed. L. Pietri, J.-M. Mayeur,christianisme 3 and B. Beaujard. Vol. 3 in Histoire du christianisme des origines
a nos jours. Paris: Desclee, 1998.Histoire du Eveques, moines et empereurs (610–105 4). Ed. G. Dagron, P.christianisme 4 Riche, and A. Vauchez. Vol. 4 in Histoire du christianisme des
origines a nos jours. Paris: Desclee, 1993.
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Histoire du Apogee de la papaute et expansion de la chretientechristianisme 5 (105 4–1 274). Ed. A. Vauchez and J. Kl�oczowski. Vol. 5 in
Histoire du christianisme des origines a nos jours. Paris: Desclee,1993.
Mansi Mansi, G. D., ed., Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissimacollectio. 31 vols. Florence, 1759–98; rev. ed. J.-B. Martin andL. Petit. 53 vols. in 60. Paris, 1899–27.
MGH Monumenta Germaniae HistoricaMGH SRG MGH scriptores rerum germanicarumMGH SRM MGH scriptores rerum merovingicarumNCMH 2 The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. 2: c. 700–900. Ed.
R. McKitterick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1995.
ODB Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Ed. A. Kazhdan. 3 vols.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
PO Patrologia orientalisPG Patrologia graeca = Patrologiae cursus completus. Series graeca.
Comp. by J.-P. Migne. 161 vols. Paris, 1857–66.PL Patrologia latina = Patrologiae cursus completus. Series secunda
in qua prodeunt patres . . . ecclesiae latinae. Comp. by J.-P.Migne. 221 in 222 vols. Paris, 1844–64.
SC Sources chretiennesSCH Studies in Church History
Note regarding footnote citations
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