St. Paul and the Roman law and other studies on the origin of the form of doctrine / by Ball, W. E. (William Edmund), ATLA historical monograph collection

“…Saint Paul and the Roman law…”
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Die Christenverfolgungen im römischen Reiche vom Standpunkte des Juristen / by Cohn, Max Conrat, 1848-1911, ATLA historical monograph collection

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Il matrimonio dei cristiani : esegesi biblica e diritto romano : XXXVII Incontro di studiosi dell'antichità cristiana, Roma, 8-10 maggio 2008. by Incontro di studiosi dell'antichità cristiana Rome, Italy

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Paul in chains : Roman imprisonment and the letters of St. Paul / by Cassidy, Richard J.

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Marriage in the Western Church : the Christianization of marriage during the patristic and early medieval periods / by Reynolds, Philip Lyndon, 1950-, Brill online

Table of Contents: “…Roman Law: the Dissolution of Marriage; III. Germanic Law: Betrothal and Divorce; IV. …”
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Defending and defining the faith : an introduction to early Christian apologetic literature / by Williams, Daniel H., Oxford Scholarship Online

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Matters of definition and qualification: an elementary review -- The Roman world of early Christianity -- The construction of Christian self-definition -- Persecution and the ambiguity of Roman law -- Earliest Christian responses -- Christian faith and intellectual culture -- Hellenized antagonism toward Hellenism -- Philosophy as protagonist -- Brilliant diatribe -- Apology as dialogue and apeal -- Clash of the giants -- North African apologetics -- Apologist par excellence -- Apologetic as exhortation -- The unexpected pagan emperor -- Cities in conflict -- Fifth-century anti-pagan polemic expressions.…”
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Private worship, public values, and religious change in late antiquity / by Bowes, Kimberly Diane, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…An empire of friends and family : public and private in Roman religions -- Public and private in Roman paganism -- Public and private as legal categories -- The public priesthoods : family and patronage -- Consecratio dedicatio : marking public and private religious space -- Household cults and their public roles -- Public and private in the "unofficial cults" -- Superstitio and magia : tensions between public and private -- Communal and private in second and third-century Christianity -- From home to domus ecclesia : the Christian collective in flux -- Christian private ritual -- Private and collective ritual in Christian thought -- Public and private in pagan and Christian thought -- Two Christian capitals : private worship in Rome and Constantinople -- Rome -- Pre-constantinian realities -- The Roman Tituli -- Going to church in fourth and early fifth century Rome : the continuation of house-churches -- The home as church : domestic piety and the conversion of Rome's elite -- Contesting the private in late fourth century Rome -- Constantinople -- Fourth centuries realities -- Constantinople's Christian topography : a city of private churches -- Bishops and private churches -- Monks and the private -- "Christianizing" the countryside : rural estates and private cult -- The fourth century countryside -- The forms of estate worship : villa churches, mausolea, and "monasteries" -- Social qualities of estate-based Christianity -- Bishops and rural elites : estate Christianity in local context -- Working with bishops : North Africa -- What bishop : northern Italy, Britain and the absence of the church hierarchies -- Bishops versus elites : Hispania and southwestern Gaul -- Ideologies of the private : private cult and the construction of heresy and sanctity -- Contesting private worship : heresy and the home -- Roman law and Christian law : ideologies of private cult -- Homes on the defensive -- Promoting private worship : constructing ideals of female sanctity -- The private in the vita macrina -- The private and female heresy.…”