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Item Open Access Movement and Motion: Spatial Change in Roman Domestic Religion. Paganism to Christianity, 1st-5th centuries CE(2019-01-03) MacIntosh, Candace Rae; Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay Gayle; Palacios, Joy; Vanderspoel, JohnThis thesis sets out to examine changes in Roman domestic spaces related to religious practice from the pagan to Christian period. I argue that in their spatial negotiation of pre-existing pagan spaces, early Christian belief was influenced by these pagan spaces. A long process of reinterpreting domestic space created new spatial codes, to be understood as exclusively Christian. Case studies of Roman domestic architecture reveal that there is a detectable reinvention of space that emphasizes decreased visibility and increased personal-space intimacy in domestic religious performance.