| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 380 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: the violence of small worlds : rethinking small-scale social control in late antiquity -- Part I. Women and children first : autonomy and social control in the late ancient household -- Female crime and female confinement in late antiquity -- Holy beatings : Emmelia, her son Gregory of Nyssa, and the forty martyrs of Sebasteia -- Power, faith, and reciprocity in a slave society : domestic relationships in the preaching of John Chrysostom -- A predator and a gentleman : Augustine, autobiography, and the ethics of Christian marriage -- Part II. 'Slaves, be subject to your masters' : discipline and moral autonomy in a slave society -- Modelling Msarrqūtā : humiliation, Christian monasticism, and the ascetic life of slavery in late antique Syria and Mesopotamia -- Constructing complexity : slavery in the small worlds of early monasticism -- Disciplining the slaves of God : monastic children in Egypt at the end of antiquity -- Part III. Knowledge, power, and symbolic violence : the aesthetics of control in Christian pedagogy -- John Chrysostom and the strategic use of fear -- The fear of belonging : the violent training of elite males in the late fourth century -- Words at war : textual violence in Eusebius of Caesarea -- Of sojourners and soldiers : demonic violence in the letters of Antony and the life of Antony -- Coercing the Catechists : Augustine's De Catechizandis Rudibus -- Part IV. Vulnerability and power : Christian heroines and the small worlds of late antiquity -- Reading Thecla in fourth-century Pontus : violence, virginity, and female autonomy in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina -- Family heroines : female vulnerability in the writings of Ambrose of Milan -- Women on the edge : violence, 'othering' and the limits of imperial power in Euphemia and the goth |
| Summary |
"Social Control in Late Antiquity: The Violence of Small Worlds explores the small-scale communities of late antiquity - households, monasteries, and schools - where power was a question of personal relationships. When fathers, husbands, teachers, abbots, and slave-owners asserted their own will, they saw themselves as maintaining the social order, and expected law and government to reinforce their rule. Naturally, the members of these communities had their own ideas, and teaching them to 'obey their betters' was not always a straightforward business. Drawing on a wide variety of sources from across the late Roman Mediterranean, from law codes and inscriptions to monastic rules and hagiography, the book considers the sometimes conflicting identities of women, slaves, and children and documents how they found opportunities for agency and recognition within a system built on the unremitting assertion of the rights of the powerful"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 29, 2020) |
| Subject |
Social control -- Rome -- History -- To 1500
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Violence -- Rome -- History -- To 1500
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Social structure -- Rome -- History -- To 1500
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Roman provinces -- Administration.
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Roman provinces -- Administration.
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Social control.
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Social structure.
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Violence.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115160
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cooper, Kate, 1960- editor.
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Wood, Jamie, 1978- editor.
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| LC no. |
2020014090 |
| ISBN |
9781108783491 |
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110878349X |
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