In Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, A.D. Lee documents the transformation of the religious landscape of the Roman world from one of enormous diversity of religious practices and creeds in the 3rd century to a situation where, by the 6th century, Christianity had become the dominant religious force.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• Preface to the second edition
• Preface to the original edition
• Acknowledgements
• Conventions and abbreviations
• List of emperors
• Glossary
• Map
• Introduction
• Late Antiquity: an overview
• The sources: types, languages, and dating
• Pagans or polytheists?
• Further reading and useful reference works
• PART I Pagans and Christians through time
• 1 Pagans in the third century
• 2 Christians in the third century
• 3 Pagans and Christians during the Tetrarchy
• 4 Constantine
• 5 Pagans and Christians in the mid-fourth century
• 6 Pagans and Christians in the late fourth century
• 7 Christianisation and its limits in the fifth and sixth centuries
• PART II Other religious groups
• 8 Jews
• 9 Zoroastrians
• 10 Manichaeans
• PART III Themes in late antique Christianity
• 11 Ascetics
• 12 Bishops
• 13 Material resources
• 14 Church life
• 15 Women
• 16 Pilgrims and holy places
• Editions
• Bibliography
• Index of sources