This book breaks away from the usual notions of religious conflict between Christians and pagans, to focus on a number of approaches to the Christianization of Rome. The critical century between the arrival of Constantine and the advance of Alaric in the early 5th century witnessed dramatic changes in the city of Rome. The author surveys the laws and political considerations which governed the building policy of Constantine and his successors, the effect of papal building and commemorative constructions on Roman topography, the continuing ambivalence of the Roman festal calendar, and the confl.
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