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6
. de Ste. Croix 1963a, 7.

7
.
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
10.96.

8
.
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
10.97 (Trajan to Pliny)
.

9
. Mattingly 1967, 39.

10
. de Ste. Croix 1963a.

11
. Noted in Keresztes 1968.

12
. Keresztes 1968.

13
. Keresztes 1968.

14
. Eusebius,
The Ecclesiastical History
5.1.41–56.

15
. Frend 1984, 318.

16
. Oost 1961, 4.

17
. Oborn 1933.

18
. Ferrill 1986; Jones 1948; Luttwak 1976; MacMullen 1963.

19
. Jones 1948, 23–24.

20
. Rostovtzeff 1926.

21
. Abbott 1911.

22
. Rives 1999, 137.

23
. Boak and Sinnigen 1965, 415.

24
. Rives 1999, 142.

25
. Quoted in Frend 1965, 405.

26
. Rives 1999, 141.

27
. Eusebius,
The Ecclesiastical History
6.41.7.

28
. Eusebius,
The Ecclesiastical History
7.12.

29
. Mattingly 1967, 54: coins minted at the time make this certain.

30
. Eusebius,
The Ecclesiastical History
8.1.

31
. Mattingly 1967, 56.

32
. Barnes 1981, 19; Mattingly 1967, 56.

33
. Barnes 1981, 19.

34
. Rostovtzeff 1926, 453–54.

35
. Frend [1965] 1981, 491.

36
. Mattingly 1967, 57.

37
. Barnes 1981, 24.

38
. Barnes 1981, 24.

39
. Grant 1978, 308.

40
. Barnes 1981, 31.

41
. Frend 1965, 413.

42
. Barnes 1981, 201.

43
. de Ste. Croix 1963a; Frend 1984; Mattingly 1967.

44
. Eusebius,
The Martyrs of Palestine
1.

45
. Mattingly 1967, 45.

46
. de Ste. Croix 1963a, 22.

47
. Edwards 1919, 21.

48
. Riddle 1931, 64.

49
. McBroom 1966.

50
. Schoedel 1991, 135.

51
. Ignatius,
Epistle to the Romans.

52
. Fremantle 1954, 191.

53
. Weiner and Weiner 1990, 80–81.

54
. Quoted in Benko 1984, 141.

55
. Eusebius [ca. 325] 1927.

Chapter 9: Assessing Christian Growth

 

1
. Harnack 1905, 466n.

2
. Josephus,
Jewish War
6.9.3.

3
. Josephus,
Jewish War
7.9.1.

4
. Grant 1977, 9.

5
. Barrett 1982, 23.

6
. Turner and Killian 1987.

7
. Kee 1990, 6.

8
. Grant 1977, 146.

9
. Schnabel 2004, 815.

10
. Fox 1987, 269.

11
. Wilken 1984, 31.

12
. Fox 1987, 317.

13
. Goodenough [1931] 1970; Grant 1978; MacMullen 1984. Gibbon [1776–1788] 1994 supposed the number of Christians at that time to be only three million (1: chap. 15).

14
. Stark and Iannaccone 1997; Stark 1996.

15
. McKechnie 2001, 57.

16
. (r =.86) Bagnall,1982; 1987.

17
. I am grateful to Professor Galvao-Sobrinho for graciously providing me with his raw data.

18
. Galvao-Sobrinho 1995.

19
. Details on each are provided in Stark 2006.

20
. Nolan and Lenski 2006, 155.

21
. Stark 2006.

22
. Countryman 1980, 169.

23
. Grant 1977, 7.

24
. Tertullian,
Apology
37.8.

Chapter 10: Constantine’s Very Mixed Blessings

 

1
. Burckhardt [1880] 1949, 281.

2
. Burckhardt [1880] 1949, 292.

3
. Drake 2000; Pohlsander 1996.

4
. Elliott 1996.

5
. Eusebius,
Life of Constantine
.

6
. Pohlsander 1996, 19–20.

7
. Pohlsander 1996, 21.

8
. Pohlsander 1996.

9
. Barnes 1981, 44.

10
. Barnes 1981, 275.

11
. Eusebius,
Life of Constantine
4.60.

12
. Odahl 2004.

13
. Leadbetter 2000, 1077.

14
. Although often called St. Peter’s Cathedral, technically it is a basilica, not a cathedral, as it is not the seat of a bishop.

15
. Walsh 1982.

16
. Eusebius,
Life of Constantine
3.26–28.

17
. Grant [1970] 1990, 246.

18
. Leadbetter 2000, 1078.

19
. Duffy 1997, 18.

20
. Frend 1984, 487.

21
. Frend 1984, 487.

22
. Fletcher 1997, 19.

23
. Duffy 1997, 27.

24
. Eusebius,
Life of Constantine
1.44.1–3.

25
. Grant [1970] 1990, 236.

26
. Geffcken [1920] 1978, 120.

27
. Both quotes from Bradbury 1994, 123.

28
. Drake 2000, 247.

29
. Drake 1996, 29.

30
. Brown 1995; Drake 2000.

31
. Drake 2000, 244.

32
. Quoted in Drake 2000, 244–87.

33
. Drake 2000, 247.

34
. Moffett 1992, 140.

35
. Montgomery 2002, 44.

36
. Moffett 1992, 140.

37
. Bundy 2007, 132.

38
. Moffett 1992, 145.

Chapter 11: The Demise of Paganism

 

1
. Kirsch 2004, 18.

2
. Bowersock 1990, 6.

3
. MacMullen 1997, 2.

4
. Gibbon [1776–1788] 1994, 1: 15.447.

5
. Gibbon [1776–1788] 1994, 1: 2.57.

6
. In
Toleration and Other Essays
.

7
. Gibbon [1776–1788] 1994 1: 16.539.

8
. Gibbon [1776–1788] 1994, 1: 20.750.

9
. Brown 1998, 633.

10
. Brown 1998, 641.

11
. Among them Peter Brown, Jean Delumeau, H. A. Drake, and Ramsay MacMullen.

12
. Quoted in Brown 1998, 641.

13
. Brown 1998; MacMullen 1997.

14
. Harl 1990, 14.

15
. MacMullen 1997, 28.

16
. Trombley 1985.

17
. Stark 2006, chap. 3.

18
. Even one of the strongest current proponents of the traditional view that Constantine quickly destroyed paganism has admitted that there is no evidence of pagan protests: “The opposition to Christianity can [only] be guessed rather than demonstrated” (Momigliano 1963, 94).

19
. Winkelman, quoted in Drake 2000, 246.

20
. Drake 2000, 249.

21
. Salzman 1990.

22
. Both quotations from Brown 1995, 12.

23
. Brown 1995, 15.

24
. Brown 1995, 18.

25
. For a summary see Stark 2004, chap. 3.

26
. Bowersock 1978, 18.

27
. Gibbon [1776–1788] 1994, 2: 23.864

28
. Levenson 1990, 510.

29
. Bowersock 1978, 79–93.

30
. Bowersock 1978, 16.

31
. Geffcken [1920] 1978, 139.

32
. Levenson 1990, 510.

33
. Bowersock 1978, 18.

34
. Gibbon [1776–1788] 1994, 2: 23.866–67.

35
. Chuvin 1990. 44.

36
. Geffcken [1920] 1978. 144.

37
. Athanassiadi 1993, 13.

38
. Drake 2000, 434.

39
. Drake 2000, 435.

40
. Drake 2000, 434.

41
. Drake 2000, 436.

42
.
Oratio xviii
, quoted in Drake 1996, 34.

43
. Wilken 1984, 128.

44
. Bloch 1963, 195.

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