Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dossey, Leslie, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Series:Transformation of the classical heritage ; 47.
Subjects:
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430.
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430
To 647
Donatists.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects.
Preaching > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Roman provinces > Administration.
Donatistes.
Prédication > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Economic history.
Preaching > Early church.
Social conditions.
christianisme > paysan > Afrique (province romaine) > paléochrétien.
paysan > Afrique (province romaine) > époque des conquêtes romaines > 6e s.
milieu rural > paysan > société (milieu humain) > Afrique (province romaine) > époque des conquêtes romaines > 6e s.
Africa, North > History > To 647.
Rome > Economic conditions > 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Rome > History > Empire, 284-476.
Byzantine Empire > Social conditions.
Afrique du Nord > Histoire > Jusqu'à 647.
Rome > Conditions économiques > 30 av. J.-C.-476.
Rome > Histoire > 284-476 (Bas-Empire)
North Africa.
Byzantine Empire.
Rome (Empire)
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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