Stones, Trees and Springs in the Ritual Landscape of Late Antique Gaul and Hispania

This book explores how late antique condemnations of rituals at stones, trees and springs reveal deliberate ecclesiastical strategies designed to control devotion, redefine sacred landscapes and consolidate episcopal control across the rural territories of post-Roman Gaul and Hispania.By analysing sermons, conciliar canons, penitentials, hagiography and civil legislation, the book shows how accusa...