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Chargement... Social Control in Late Antiquity: The Violence of Small Worldspar Kate Cooper (Directeur de publication), Jamie Wood (Directeur de publication)
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Social Control in Late Antiquity: The Violence of Small Worlds is the edited volume we all wish we could produce. Each of its 15 essays are sharply delineated, eminently engaging, and strongly conversant with important debates in their respective fields. While each is a fascinating read on its own, they all also participate in a remarkable coherence that is sometimes lacking in anthologies. Editors Kate Cooper and Jamie Wood should be commended for producing (and contributing to) such a superb and tightly focused volume.
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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)303.3Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Processes Coordination and control ; PowerClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: Pas d'évaluation. |