Christine Shepardson is Lindsay Young Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsList of Roman Emperors and Bishops of AntiochTimeline of Key EventsIntroduction: The Lay of the Land1. The Power of Prestigious Places: Teaching and Preaching in Fourth-Century Antioch2. Burying Babylas: Place-Marketing and the Politics of Memory 3. Being Correctly Christian: John Chrysostom’s Rhetoric in 386–87 4. Transformative Transgressions: Exploiting the Urban/Rural Divide5. Mapping a Textured Landscape: Temples, Martyrs, and Ascetics 6. Elsewhere in the EmpireConclusion: Controlling Contested PlacesBibliographyIndex

"Shepardson offers a compelling and insightful take on the transformation of the empire’s cultural terrain in the decades after Constantine’s conversion and the Nicene Council."

Christine Shepardson is Lindsay Young Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsList of Roman Emperors and Bishops of AntiochTimeline of Key EventsIntroduction: The Lay of the Land1. The Power of Prestigious Places: Teaching and Preaching in Fourth-Century Antioch2. Burying Babylas: Place-Marketing and the Politics of Memory 3. Being Correctly Christian: John Chrysostom’s Rhetoric in 386–87 4. Transformative Transgressions: Exploiting the Urban/Rural Divide5. Mapping a Textured Landscape: Temples, Martyrs, and Ascetics 6. Elsewhere in the EmpireConclusion: Controlling Contested PlacesBibliographyIndex

"Shepardson offers a compelling and insightful take on the transformation of the empire’s cultural terrain in the decades after Constantine’s conversion and the Nicene Council."

Christine Shepardson is Lindsay Young Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsList of Roman Emperors and Bishops of AntiochTimeline of Key EventsIntroduction: The Lay of the Land1. The Power of Prestigious Places: Teaching and Preaching in Fourth-Century Antioch2. Burying Babylas: Place-Marketing and the Politics of Memory 3. Being Correctly Christian: John Chrysostom’s Rhetoric in 386–87 4. Transformative Transgressions: Exploiting the Urban/Rural Divide5. Mapping a Textured Landscape: Temples, Martyrs, and Ascetics 6. Elsewhere in the EmpireConclusion: Controlling Contested PlacesBibliographyIndex

"Shepardson offers a compelling and insightful take on the transformation of the empire’s cultural terrain in the decades after Constantine’s conversion and the Nicene Council."