Group Self-Definitions and Religious Collectivities in the 16th Book of the Theodosian Code. Notes on the Term coetus (with a Preliminary Analysis of populus)

This essay starts from the well-known definition of populus as well as it appears in some Cicero’s works and aims at analyze the religious significance of coetus, a term strictly connected with the first, at least focusing on the 16th book of the Theodosian Code. This article intends to cast light some transformations and representations of religious groups between Constantinian and Post-Constantinian ages.