Soldiers and Sacred Space: Letterwriting and atrocity in the Later Roman Empire 300-420 AD.

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Gauging Orosius' narrative on the sack of Rome in the context of late antique violence and church controversy.

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Orosius, letterwriting, churches, late antiquity, violence, Athanasius, Theodoret, Sozomen, Socrates, Augustine, Sack of Rome, 410, soldiers in church motif, atrocity, extreme violence

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