Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Scripps Senior Theses Scripps Student Scholarship 2015 Caving Into The iW ll Of The aM sses?: Relics In Augustine's City Of God Jessica Gadis Scripps College Recommended Citation Gadis, Jessica, "Caving Into The iW ll Of The asM ses?: Relics In Augustine's City Of God" (2015). Scripps Senior Theses. Paper 694. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/694 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Scripps Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scripps Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. CAVING INTO THE WILL OF THE MASSES?: RELICS IN AUGUSTINE’S CITY OF GOD by JESSICA IRENE ELENI GADIS SUBMITTED TO SCRIPPS COLLEGE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS PROFESSOR KENNETH WOLF PROFESSOR ANDREW JACOBS APRIL 24, 2015 Gadis 2 Contents I. Introduction: An Intellectual Elite Embracing the Superstitions of the Masses? 3 II. Peter Brown’s Model: the Role of Relics in the Late Antique World 7 A. Augustine within Brown’s Revisionist Model 10 III. The Intellectual Life of Augustine of Hippo 12 A. On the Perception of the Populace in the Early Writings of Augustine 17 IV. Understanding the City of God 19 V. Relics within the City of God A. The Rhetoric of Resurrection in Earlier Books 25 B. Processing the Miracle Chain of 22.8 28 C. Understanding the Implications of this ‘Change of Heart‘ 33 VI. Conclusion: Superfluous Appendage or Purpose of the Entirety? 38 VII.