By Catherine Conybeare

This literate and available learn examines the profound influence Paulinus had on Christian suggestion in the course of an important interval of its improvement. The letters of Paulinus and his correspondents painting an early Christian 'web' of shared techniques, highbrow dialogue, and staff improvement. Catherine Conybeare examines how the very strategy of writing and transmitting letters among participants of a group helped to bind that neighborhood jointly and to help the construction of principles which might proceed to reverberate for hundreds of years. Paulinus used to be key to that crew iconic as a version of habit, as a conversion good fortune tale, and as an highbrow contributor in a position to bridge the previous international and the hot.

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127 When the gift, as here, is a book or books, they are naturally significant not only for their symbolic value but also for their contents. 128 So there are two ways in which Christian gifts of books are differentiated from nonChristian: by the nature of the material shared; and, more importantly, by their place in a greater spiritual scheme. To illustrate this, one may compare a pagan with a Christian letter for content and tone; both have ostensibly the same purpose, to accompany a gift of books.

This letter goes on to reveal the considerable sense of betrayal when a carrier criticizes one of those between whom he is relaying letters—because, of course, the delivery of a letter involves making one's home in the respondent's community for some time while waiting for an answer. 161 I ask you to remember that day, when you leapt up from my side while I was preaching about the true resurrection of the body, and stamped your feet and acclaimed162 me as orthodox. 159 See David Hunter, ‘Vigilantius of Calagurris and Victricius of Rouen’; also Trout's discussion of the episode, Paulinus, 220–2.

128 So there are two ways in which Christian gifts of books are differentiated from nonChristian: by the nature of the material shared; and, more importantly, by their place in a greater spiritual scheme. To illustrate this, one may compare a pagan with a Christian letter for content and tone; both have ostensibly the same purpose, to accompany a gift of books. The first is a cover letter from Symmachus to Ausonius for a present of Pliny's Natural History: Si te amor habet naturalis historiae, quam Plinius elaboravit, en tibi libellos, quorum mihi praesentanea copia fuit.

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