Social control in late antiquity the violence of small worlds
"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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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | 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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 380 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781108479394 978-1-108-47939-4 9781108742696 978-1-108-74269-6 9781108783491 |