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Sin, Citizenship, and the Salvation of Souls: The Impact of Christian Priorities on Late-Roman and Post-Roman Society

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Sabine MacCormack
Sabine MacCormack
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The impact of Christianity on the functioning of the later Roman empire has been examined by historians ever since Gibbon published his Decline and Fall. Had the Christians hastened the decline and fall of Rome? Outlining some themes of his projected work, Gibbon suggested before 1774 that indeed they had. In 1776, when publishing the first volume of his history, he touched on this same issue with considerable circumspection; but five years later, his earlier opinion appeared in print under the heading of “General Observations on the Decline of the Empire in the West” by way of concluding the third volume of the work. Here, Gibbon stated:

As the happiness of a future life is the great object of religion, we may hear, without surprise or scandal, that the introduction, or at least the abuse, of Christianity had some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman empire. The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged: and the last remains of military spirit were buried in the cloister; a large portion of public and private wealth was consecrated to the specious demands of charity and devotion; and the soldiers' pay was lavished on the useless multitudes of both sexes, who could only plead the merits of abstinence and chastity.

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Motive, Sin, and Salvation
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , October 1997 , pp. 644 - 673
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1997

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12 On the “falling away” (defectus) of the individual as both an individual and a social act (societas peccati), see Augustine, , City of God 14.13Google Scholar. in particular: “Spontaneus est autem iste defectus. quoniam. si voluntas in amore superioris inmutabilis boni. a quo inlustrabatur ut videret et accendebatur ut amaret. stabilis permaneret, non inde ad sibi placendum averteretur et ex hoc tenebresceret et frigesceret, ut vel illa crederet verum dixisse serpentem, vel ille Dei mandato uxoris praeponeret voluntatem putaretque se venialiter transgressorem esse praecepti, si vitae suae sociam non desereret etiam in societate peccati.”

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19 Necessitudines temporales, De sermone domini in monte 1, 15, 40 (Patrologia Latina [hereafter PL] 34, 1249).

20 Augustine. De ordine (CCSL 29) 1.29.51: “Si quid mihi amoris, si quid necessitudinis debetis … boni estote!” See also, De vera religione (CCSL 32) 46, 88–89, on carnales necessitudines and temporales necessitudines: City of God 14, 18 (kinship); note especially the passage 14, 1: “Diximus iam superioribus libris ad humanum genus non solum naturae similitudine sociandum, verum etiam quadam cognationis necessitudine in unitatem concordem pacis vinculo conligandum ex homine uno Deum voluisse homines instituere, neque hoc genus fuisse in singulis quibusque moriturum, nisi duo primi, quorum creatus unus est ex nullo, altera ex illo, id inoboedientia meruissent, a quibus admissum est tam grande peccatum, ut in deterius eo natura mutaretur humana. etiam in posteros obligatione peccati et mortis necessitate transmissa.” City of God 15,16 discusses the role of necessitudo (kinship) in primitive and developed human society. For the meanings of necessitudo in the Theodosian Code, see 2.25,1, referring to kin groups; 4,4,2, the emperor and his circle, necessitudines; 6,4,2, constraint; 8,4,7. kinsmen; 8,18,6, kinsmen; 9,7,8, kinship; 9,42.9, degrees of kinship; 12.1,49, kinship; 12,1,122, proximity other than blood relationship; see also. Tacitus, , Annals 3, 29Google Scholar; de Zulueta, F., The Institutes of Gaius [hereafter Gaius] (Oxford, 1946), 3, 24Google Scholar.

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29 Bonorum malorumque permixtio: see e.g. Sermo 223 (PL 38. 1092).

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37 Krueger, G., “Die Fürsorgetätigkeit der vorkonstantinischen Kirchen,” Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte 55, Kanonistische Abteilung, 24 (1935), 113–40Google Scholar; see especially, on the public and juridical impact of Christian charity, 133 ff.

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39 On the evolution of the ritual of baptism, see Hugh Riley, M., Christian Initiation; A Comparative Study of the Interpretation of the Baptismal Liturgy in the Mystagogical Writings of Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, Theodore of Mopsuestia, and Ambrose of Milan (Washington D.C., 1974Google Scholar): on the earliest mention of baptismal sponsors of adults by Hippolytus of Rome (Apostolic Tradition 16), see Lynch, Godparents and Kinship, 36 ff.; Dujarier, Michel, Le parrainage des adultes aux trois premiers sièctes de l'Église; récherche historique sur l'évolution des garanties et des étapes catéchumenales avant 313 (Paris, 1962), 197ff.Google Scholar; Burnish, R. F., “The Role of the Godfather in the East in the Fourth Century,” Studia Patristica, 17:2 (1979 (1982), 558–64Google Scholar; Corblet, J., Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de Baptème, II (Paris, 1882) 111ff.Google Scholar is still useful.

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41 Council of Elvira, Canon 24. “Eo quod eorum minime sit cognita vita,” in Vives, José, ed. Concilios Visigoticos (Barcelona, 1963), 6Google Scholar.

42 M. Dujarier. Le parrainage des adultes, 53f.; for the baptismal sponsor as “pater” in the Penitential of Theodore, see P. W. Finsterwalder, Die Canones Theodori Cantuariensis, p. 275, section VII.69; p. 317, section IV, 8. The Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis (A. Dumas, ed., CCSL 159) refers to godparents as “qui eos suscepturi sunt” [from the font], see sections 706; 709. The alternative rite in this sacramentary uses this same terminology along with patrini and matrini, see section 2226 and 2232 (2324 uses “patrini qui eos suscepturi sunt”).

43 Codex Justinianus 5,4,26.2: “Ea videlicet persona omnimodo ad nuptias venire prohibenda, quam aliquis, sive alumna sit sive non, a sacrosancto suscepit baptismate, cum nihil aliud sic inducere potest paternam adfectionem et iustam nuptiarum prohibitionem, quam huiusmodi nexus, per quern deo mediante animae eorum copulae sunt.”

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47 Augustine, , Contra Faustum 3,3Google Scholar (CSEL 25.1, p. 264): “Ut fratres Christi secundum modum nostrum faceret, adoptavit. iste itaque modus … ut filii eius essemus. adoptio vocatur”; further on, Augustine draws the parallel of human adoption.

48 J. H. Lynch, ‘Godparents and Kinship, 219–42. on prohibitions of marriage between individuals related by spiritual kinship, and 242 ff., on the laws of King Ine laying down compensation to be awarded for the murder of a spiritual son or father. See further, on the impact of ecclesiastical concerns on secular legislation involving marriage. Goody, Jack. The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe (Cambridge, 1983), ch. 3CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also pages 68 ff. and 204 ff., on “strategies of heirship.” Throughout the book, Goody argues that the church, by prohibiting or restricting existing modes of succession (especially by adoption), augmented its own economic resources (especially 45 ff.; 75; 123f.; 196 ff.). It must be said by way of qualification, however, that this outcome does not appear to have been the result of a deliberate policy on the part of late Roman and early medieval ecclesiastics. One of the points being made in this essay is that the manner in which individuals conceive and orchestrate their role in society does indeed have economic consequences, but at the same time these economic consequences do not necessarily dominate or even condition a given individual's actions and self-perception. In the wills being considered below, it was the future of their souls that motivated donors to make gifts to the church, not the idea that the church should become wealthy. For a fundamental corrective to Goody's argument, see Jussen, Bernhard, Patenschaft und Adoption imfrühen Mittelalter (Göttingen, 1991Google Scholar). See also, Klingshirn, William, Caesarius of Arles. The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Arles (Cambridge, 1994), 195f.Google Scholar, 199f. Finally, Herlihy, “Church Property on the European Continent 701–1200,” Speculum, 36 (1961), 81–105Google Scholar (and his The Social History of Italy and Western Europe, 700–1500 (London, 1978), ch. V)Google Scholar. demonstrates that the wealth of the church was not as extensive as might be thought, if one pays too exclusive an attention to the bequests left to it.

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57 Augustine, Sermo 355 (PL 39,1571 f.) “Si quis … irascitur in filium suum et moriens exhaeredat eum, si viveret non eum placarem? Non ei filium suum reconciliare deberem? Quomodo ergo cum filio suo volo ut habeat pacem. cuius appeto haereditatem? Sed plane, si faciat quod saepe hortatus sum, unum filium habet, putet Christum alterum; duos filios habet, putet Christum tertium: decem habet, Christum undeciumum faciat, et suscipio.” Januarius, as is clear from this sermon, was a member of Augustine's monastic community. While Januarius' children, a son and a daughter, are mentioned in the sermon, his wife is not; perhaps she had died. This kind of situation was envisaged in Theodosian Code 8,18,6 of 379 AD, where fathers whose wives have died are prevented from alienating the property of their children.

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63 Theodosian Code 16,2,27.

64 Theodosian Code 16,2,28.

65 Theodosian Code 5,3, also in Codex Iustinianus 1,3,20.

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68 Codex Justinianus 1,3,45, 530 AD: “.”

69 Codex Justinianus 1,3,48.1. 531 AD: “Si quis ad declinandam legem Falcidiam, cum desiderat totam suam substantiam pro redemptione captivorum relinquere, eos ipsos captivos scripsent heredes, ne videatur quasi incertis personis heredibus institutis iudicium suum oppugnandum reliquisse, sancimus huius talem institutionem pietatis intuitu valere et non esse respuendam.”

70 Codex Justinianus 1,3,48,4: “Licentia omnimodo danda … et actionem movere et debita exigere, ut in captivos vel in aegrotantes consumantur. si enim heredum eis et ius et nomen dedimus, sine Falcidiae tamen legis emolumento, necesse est eos et debita exigere et creditoribus respondere.” I take the phrase “sine Falcidiae tamen legis emolumento” to mean that once the testator's heirs, that is, the next of kin who would inherit in case of intestasy are not protected by the Falcidian law which ensured that they would at the very least receive an unencumbered quarter of the inheritance (that is, the testator's debts had to be paid before the Falcidian quarter was assigned to heirs), these next of kin cannot be made responsible for the testator's debts. Justinian's innovation consisted of abrogating, in cases where pious bequests were at issue, the Falcidian quarter to which heirs were normally entitled. Such bequests now overruled the Lex Falcidia not only with regard to the quarter that had been assigned to heirs but also with regard to the prior payment of testator's debts. As a result, the captivi and aegrotantes became responsible for testator's debts without being able to appeal to the Lex Falcidia (“sine Falcidiae tamen legis emolumento”) which arranged for debts to be paid before inheritances were distributed.

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The Greek text makes clear that the heir will not benefit by the Falcidian quarter:

72 Codex Justinianus 1,2,15:

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74 For the priority of the voluntas of testators over the form of a written document, see especially Theodosian Code 2.24,1 (321 AD) with the interpretation from the Breviary ofAlaric.

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