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Marriage, sex and death : the family and the fall of the Roman West /
By the end of the fifth century, with the structural collapse of the Roman Empire in the west, Western Europe had fallen into the so-called Dark Ages. With the power of Rome removed, the Catholic Church stepped in to fill the void. Its political rise, alongside that of the Germanic kingdoms, led to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | By the end of the fifth century, with the structural collapse of the Roman Empire in the west, Western Europe had fallen into the so-called Dark Ages. With the power of Rome removed, the Catholic Church stepped in to fill the void. Its political rise, alongside that of the Germanic kingdoms, led to dramatic changes in law, politics, power, and culture. Against the backdrop of that upheaval, the family became a vitally important area of focus for cultural struggles related to morality, law, and tradition. This book explores those battles in order to demonstrate, through the family, the intersections between Roman and Christian legal culture, thought, and political power. |
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| Notas: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (254 pages) : PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 9048529611 9789048529612 |