Pagans and Christians in late Antique Rome
(Vatican Radio) Veronica Scarisbrick speaks to Professor of Medieval Studies at the
Central European University in Hungary's capital Budapest, Marianne Sághy about a
two day conference focusing on "Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome" taking
place from the 20th to the 21st of September. Hosted by the Hungarian Academy of Rome, the Conference has brought together historians from the world over to discuss issues such as Religion and the Emperor, Religion and the Urban Prefecture...
With Rome as a natural choice for a venue to discuss new textual evidence regarding the survival of paganism and the expansion of Christianity..
As Professor Ságy tells Veronica Scarisbrick , to read the fourth and fifth century Roman Empire in terms of the interaction between "pagans" and Christians" has provided the leading paradigm for historical and theological discourse from late Antiquity until the middle of the twentieth century, when András Alföldi presented a "Christian Constantine" in conflict with a "pagan" Rome.
A model which later generations of scholars contested as they strived to better understand the social, cultural and political changes in Rome.
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