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, the...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Cooper, Kate 1960- (HerausgeberIn), Wood, Jamie 1978- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2020
Schlagworte:	Social control / Rome / History / To 1500 Violence / Rome / History / To 1500 Social structure / Rome / History / To 1500 Roman provinces / Administration Gewalt Sozialgeschichte Spätantike Rome / History / Empire, 284-476 Römisches Reich Aufsatzsammlung
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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:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Sep 2020)
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 320 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781108783491
DOI:	10.1017/9781108783491