Christianity in the century both before and after Constantine s conversion is familiar thanks to the written sources; now Ramsay MacMullen, in his fifth book on ancient Christianity, considers especially the unwritten evidence.
He uses excavation reports about hundreds of churches of the fourth century to show what worshipers did in them and in the cemeteries where most of them were built.
What emerges, in this richly illustrated work, is a religion that ordinary Christians, by far the majori.
Society Of Biblical Literature The second church: popular christianity a.d. 200-400/ramsay macmullen
