Sunday, January 5, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

American Society of Church History Session 31

Welfare and Philanthropy in Late Antiquity

Palmer House, Burnham Room 1

Chair: W. Trent Foley, Davidson College

Papers: The Social Welfare of the First Christians
Pascale Dubé, Laval University

Rich City Burning: Social Welfare and Insecurity in Basil's Homily 21
Susan R. Holman, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Charity as Contested Ground: Bishops, Magi, and Religious Philanthropy in the Later Sasanid Empire
Scott J. McDonough, University of California at Los Angeles

Comment: Nancy J. Weatherwax, Millikin University

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