文档介绍：Rejoinder: "The Making of a Christian Aristocracy:" A Response to Ralph Mathisen's Review
Article
The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman
Empire by Michele Salzman
Review by: Michele Salzman
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Summer, 2005), pp. 123-137
Published by: Springer
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REJOINDER
TheMaking of a ChristianAristocracy: A Responseto
Ralph Mathisen's Review Article
Ralph Mathisen devoted 21 pages in Volume 9 (2002-2003)of this journal to discussing
my book, TheMaking of a ChristianAristocracy: Social and ReligiousChange in the Western
RomanEmpire (Cambridge, MA: HarvardUniversity Press, 2002).1I have been prompted
to write this response not only to correctMathisen's (hereafter cited as M.) erroneousand
misleading statementsabout my book, but also because I believe my response will be of
use to other scholars insofar as I will address some of the key problems facing ancient
historianswho try,as I have, to address large-scalesocial and historicalquestions, and do
so by incorporatingquantitative evidence.
M.'s criticismsfall into three separatecategories. First, he criticizesthe way in which
I used the quantitativeevidence that I brought to bear on the study of the Christianiza-
tion of the