Ramsay MacMullen

Ramsay MacMullen ( born March 3, 1928 in New York City ) is an American historian.

MacMullen studied at Phillips Exeter Academy and then earned his doctorate at Harvard. From 1967 to 1993 he was Professor of Ancient History at Yale University, where he has worked as a professor emeritus until today. His two main research fields are the Roman social history and late antiquity.

Also for epigraphy MacMullen has presented important studies. He coined the term Epigraphic habit, the (usually untranslated ) has found its way into the international trade terminology and refers to the respective customs of a society to put inscriptions in certain contexts.

Significant works

  • Soldier and Civilian in the Later Roman Empire (1963 )
  • Constantine ( 1970)
  • Roman Social Relations, 50 B.C. to A.D. 284 (1974)
  • Paganism in the Roman Empire (1984 )
  • Christianizing the Roman Empire: AD 100-400 (1989 )
  • Corruption and the Decline of Rome. (1988)
  • Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries (1997)
  • Romanization in the Time of Augustus (2000)
  • Voting About God in Early Church Councils ( 2006)
  • Historian
  • University teachers ( Yale )
  • Americans
  • Born in 1928
  • Man
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