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It is a pleasure, on the occasion of a collection of essays to honor Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, to repay an intellectual debt that I incurred some thirty years ago. On opening his fine book on The Populus of Augustine and Jerome: A Study in the Patristic Sense of Community, my eye fell with gratitude on the following passage, in which he introduced and justified his statistical study of the word populus in two major Patristic authors:
It seems to me that such an examination brings us closer to the ways in which men like Augustine and Jerome formulated their feelings than the scraps of outright theorizing on the subject which we find scattered throughout their diverse works. Some of the most powerful and persistent of human convictions operate just beneath the level of formula construction, and in patterns interestingly different from statements held up for public exhibit. It is not uncommon to find such prejudices (to use Burke’s neutral and honorable term for this kind of sentiment about the right shape of things) pervading the writings of even an accomplished author far more consistently and vividly than do his formal ideas on related topics, and therefore affecting both the prejudices and the ideas of later readers who depend on his categories of language to formulate their own thought.1
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Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, Tlie Populus of Augustine and Jerome: A Study in the Patristic Sense of Community (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1971), p. 2.
Helen Waddell, The Wandering Scholars (London: Constable, 1927), p. 2.
P. Brown, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981), pp. 53–55.
C. Conybeare, Paulinus Noster. Self and Symbol in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
S. Mratschek, Der Briefwechsel des Paulinus von Nola. Kommunikation und soziale Kontakte zwsichen christlichen Intellektuellen, Hypomnemata 134 (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2002).
J. Curran, Pagan City and Christian Capital. Rome in the Fourth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), pp. 266–67.
CIL VI. 1779 = ILS 1259, trans. B. Croke and J. Harries, Religious Conflict in Fourth-Century Rome (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1982), p. 107.
A.J. Festugière,“Initiée par l’époux,” Monuments Piot 52 (1963): 135–46, now in Hermétisme et mystique païenne (Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1967): 322–33.
E. Dassmann, Die Frömmigkeit des Kirchenvaters Ambrosius von Mailand (Münster-in-Westfalen: Aschendorff, 1965), pp. 116–22.
See esp. L. Padovese, Considerazioni sulla dottrina cristologica di Paolino di Nola, Anchora vitae. Atti del II convegno paoliniano sul XVI centenario del Ritiro di Paolino a Nola, ed. G. Luongo (Naples: Redenzione, 1998), pp. 209–24.
M. Skeb, Paulinus von Nola: Briefe/Epistulae, Fontes Christianae 25/1–3 (Freiburg: Herder, 1998).
P. Brown, Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (Hanover, NH: New England University Press, 2002), pp. 95–96.
C.E. Newlands, Statins’ Silvae and the Poetics Of Empire (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 145 n44.
P. Brown, The Making of Late Antiquity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978), pp. 16–18.
E. Urbach,”Treasures Above,” in Hommages à Georges Vajda, ed. G. Nahon and C. Touati (Louvain: Peeters, 1980), pp. 117–24, and K. Koch,“Der Schatz im Himmel,” in üben angesichts des Todes. Helmut Thielicke zum Geburtstag (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1968), pp. 47–60.
Romanos Melodes, Kontakion on Joseph I, Strophe 1, trans. M. Carpenter, Kontakia of Romanus, Byzantine Melodist II (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1973), p. 83.
See now T. Lehmann, “Die Kirchenbauten in Cimitile/Nola. Ergebnisse der Forschungen der letzten 15 Jahre,” in Cimitile e Paolino di Nola. La Tomba di S. Felice e il Centro di Pellegrinaggio’. Trent’ Anni di Ricerche, ed. H. Brandenburg and L. Ermini Pani (Città del Vaticano: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 2003), pp. 95–125. We await the author’s monograph, Paulinus Nolanus und die Basilica Nova in Cimitile. The relevant texts are translated and commented by R.C. Goldschmidt, Paulinus’ Churches at Nola: Translation and Commentary (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1940). See in general, D. Janes, God and Gold in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 84–93.
T. Sternberg, Orientalium More Secutus. Räume und Institutionen der Caritas des bis Jahrhunderts in Gallien, Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum: Ergänzungsband 16 (Münster-in-Westfalen: Aschendorff, 1991), pp. 147–93.
Cf. Augustine, Enarratio in Psalmos 62.7 and Tractatus in Johannem 8.11: in times of crop failure, Christians turn to Jupiter, Mercury, and the other gods: see P. Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom. Triumph and Diversity AD 200–1000: Second Edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 145–47.
C. Balmelle, Les demeures aristocratiques d’Aquitaine: société et culture de l’Antiquité tardive dans le Sud-Ouest de la Gaule (Paris/Bordeaux: Ausonia/Aquitania, 2001), p. 331.
P. Brown, Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianization of the Roman World (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 16–22.
J.F. Matthews, Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court AD 364–425 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), pp. 146–59.
P. Brown, Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity. Towards a Christian Empire (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992), pp. 114–115.
L. Rizzi, Vescovi e strutture ecclesiastiche nella città tardoantica (L’Italia Annonaria nel IV–V secolo d.C), Biblioteca di Athenaeum 9 (Como: New Press, 1989), pp. 59–86.
J. Fontaine, “Valeurs antiques et valeurs chrétiennes dans la spiritualité des grands propriétaires terriens à la fin du IVe siècle occidental,” in Epektasis. Mélanges patristiques offerts àj. Daniélou, ed. J. Fontaine and C. Kannengiesser (Paris: Beauchesne, 1972), pp. 571–94.
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P. Baumann, Spätantike Stifter im Heiligen Land. Darstellungen und Inschriften auf Bodenmosaik in Kirchen, Synagogen und Privathäuser (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1999), pp. 195–267.
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Brown, P. (2005). Commercium Spirituale:“A Spiritual Exchange” Paulinus of Nola and the Poetry of Wealth. In: Hayes-Healy, S. (eds) Medieval Paradigms. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-10718-3_5
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