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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.