En torno a la independencia semántica de los términos gentilitas y paganismus en los sermones de máximo de turín verificación de una hipótesis

Abstract

Our analysis of the sermo XLVIII of Maximus of Turin led us recently to hold that the author did not use the terms gentilis-gentilitas and paganus-paganismus as synonymous, but resorted to each one of them in order to allude to two entities not only different, but opposed in their fundamental characteristics. The aim of this paper is to support the plausibility of such a hypothesis through the examination of all the references to gentilitas contained in the work of Maximus. We hope to demon-strate that, in effect, his Sermones present a conception of the gentilitas that is not only homogeneous but also completely independent of paganismus. [Author].