Religion et politique : comment ont pris fin les combats de gladiateurs

Religion and politics how gladiatorial fighting came to an end Georges VILLE The history of gladiatorial fighting is the history of the conflict between the taste for blood and highly historical and political yearning for civil peace The Christians themselves condemned combats between gladiators more as an impure spectacle on par with the obscenities of the stage than as repulsive institution they were thinking more of the spectators than of the gladiators The true cause of the suppression of gladiatorial combats is to be sought in the transformation of imperial power in the course of the 3rd century paternal king took the place of the civic magistrateVille Georges. Religion et politique : comment ont pris fin les combats de gladiateurs. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 34ᵉ année, N. 4, 1979. pp. 651-671