Ramsay MacMullen

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Ramsay MacMullen (born 1928 in New York City) is an Emeritus Professor of history at Yale University, where he taught from 1967 to his retirement in 1993 as Dunham Professor of History and Classics. His scholarly interests are in the social history of Rome and the replacement of paganism by Christianity.

MacMullen graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, summa cum laude from Harvard College.

When MacMullen was honored for a lifetime of scholarly achievement at the 2001 annual meeting of the American Historical Association with the Award for Scholarly Distinction, the award citation called him "the greatest historian of the Roman Empire alive today."

He married Edith Merriman Nye, 7 August 1954,^[1]

[edit] Major works

All published by Yale University Press.

The Decline of Rome and Roman Social Relations, 50 B.C. to A.D. 284
Paganism in the Roman Empire (1984)
Christianizing the Roman Empire: AD 100-400 (1989)
Soldier and Civilian in the Later Roman Empire (1963) Non-military life of the legions.
Enemies of the Roman Order: Treason, Unrest and Alienation in the Empire
Corruption and the Decline of Rome.
Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries (1997) ISBN 0-3000-8077-8
Romanization in the Time of Augustus (2000) ISBN 0-3000-8254-1
Voting About God in Early Church Councils (2006) Analyzing ecumenical councils from 325 to 553. ISBN 0-3001-1596-2