Talk:Pagus

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Good article, but, since Christians were heavily persecuted during Diocletian's reign, I found the following confusing: " Within the reduced area of Diocletian's subdivided provinces, the pagi could have several kinds of focal centers. Some were administered from a city, possibly the seat of a bishop ...".

The church tended to administer itself on the basis of the Roman civitates and pagi and that is why the city of secular administration could very likely be the seat of a diocese. Ecclesiastic geographical terminology preserved much in the way of Roman usages well into the Middle Ages. Srnec 20:25, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Diocletian's restructuring of the empire long outlasted him; it was still in effect when the Christian hierarchy came into in a position to do some of their own persecuting. --Wetman 00:03, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

To what exactly are you refering? The Constantinian empire, the Theodosian empire? Or later, like the Carolingian empire? The Church kept the terminology in use until the advent of the High Middle Ages and some of the ideas were appropriated by the Holy Roman Emperors, like the idea of "Gallia", "Germania", and "Italia" making up their empire. Srnec 04:06, 18 August 2007 (UTC)