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Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa /

This remarkable history foregrounds the most marginal sector of the Roman population, the provincial peasantry, to paint a fascinating new picture of peasant society. Making use of detailed archaeological and textual evidence, Leslie Dossey examines the peasantry in relation to the upper classes in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dossey, Leslie, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Colección:Transformation of the classical heritage ; 47.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical overview
  • Rural consumption in early imperial North Africa
  • A late antique consumer revolution?
  • Frustrated communities : the rise and fall of the self-governing village
  • Bishops where no bishops should be : the phenomenon of the rural bishopric
  • Preaching to peasants
  • Reinterpreting rebellion : textual communities and the circumcellions.