Un compromiso, arrae sponsalitiae, un casamiento y muchos problemas. La conversión de judías y judíos al cristianismo en la Antigüedad Tardía a través de una epístola de Gregorio Magno.

Abstract

This paper analyzes the implications of an epistle written by Gregory the Great in 591 in which he refers to a conflict related to a couple composed of Ciriaco and his wife Iohanna, a Christian who had converted from Judaism. Drawing on the epistle, I analyze the problem of conversion from Judaism to Christianity in Late Antiquity, emphasizing the position taken by Gregory. Second, I examine the tradition of the arrae sponsalitiae and its possible link with Jewish marriage practices in the Italian Peninsula during the period.