"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 wil...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, United Kingdom [und vier weitere] Cambridge University Press [2020]
Schlagworte:	Spätantike Gewalt Sozialgeschichte Römisches Reich Social control / Rome / History / To 1500 Violence / Rome / History / To 1500 Social structure / Rome / History / To 1500 Roman provinces / Administration Rome / History / Empire, 284-476 Social control Social structure Violence Rome (Empire) To 1500 History Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	"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"--
Beschreibung:	xiii, 380 Seiten
ISBN:	9781108479394 1108479391 9781108742696 1108742696