Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Maps xv
4. Illustration xvii
5. Preface xix
6. Part I. Wealth, Christianity, and Giving at the End of an Ancient World
7. Chapter 1. Aurea aetas: Wealth in an Age of Gold 3
8. Chapter 2. Mediocritas 31
9. Chapter 3. Amor civicus: Love of the city 53
10. Chapter 4. “Treasure in Heaven” 72
11. Part II. An Age of Affluence
12. Chapter 5. Symmachus 93
13. Chapter 6. Avidus civicae gratiae: Greedy for the good favor of the City 110
14. Chapter 7. Ambrose and His People 120
15. Chapter 8. “Avarice, the Root of All Evil” 135
16. Chapter 9. Augustine 148
17. Chapter 10. From Milan to Hippo 161
18. Chapter 11. “The Life in Common of a Kind of Divine and Heavenly Republic” 173
19. Chapter 12. Ista vero saecularia: Those things, indeed, of the world 185
20. Chapter 13. Ex opulentissimo divite: From being rich as rich can be 208
21. Chapter 14. Commercium spiritale: The spiritual exchange 224
22. Chapter 15. Propter magnificentiam urbis Romae: By reason of the magnificence of the city of Rome 241
23. Chapter 16. “To Sing The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land” 259
24. Chapter 17. Between Rome and Jerusalem 273
25. Part III. An Age of Crisis
26. Chapter 18. “The Eye of a Needle” and “The Treasure of the Soul” 291
27. Chapter 19. Tolle divitem: Take away the rich 308
28. Chapter 20. Augustine’s Africa 322
29. Chapter 21. “Dialogues with the Crowd” 339
30. Chapter 22. Dimitte nobis debita nostra: Forgive us our sins 359
31. Chapter 23. “Out of Africa” 369
32. Chapter 24. “Still at That Time a More Affluent Empire” 385
33. Part IV. Aftermaths
34. Chapter 25. Among the Saints 411
35. Chapter 26. Romana respublica vel iam mortua: With the empire now dead and gone 433
36. Chapter 27. Ob Italiae securitatem: For the security of Italy 454
37. Part V. Toward Another World
38. Chapter 28. Patrimonia pauperum: Patrimonies of the poor 481
39. Chapter 29. Servator fidei, patriaeque semper amator: Guardian of the faith, and always lover of [his] homeland 503
40. Conclusion 527
41. Abbreviation 531
42. Notes 533
43. Works Cited 641
44. Index 719