Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 - 700 CE

Herausgeber: De Wet, Chris L.; Vuolanto, Ville; Kahlos, Maijastina

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume investigates the settings of slaveholding and representations of slave experience in late antiquity. The essays, written by a diverse team of international scholars, scrutinize the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery alongside the status and living conditions of late antique slaves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9781108476225
• ISBN-10: 1108476228
• Artikelnr.: 62846653

Inhaltsangabe

I. Moral and Symbolic Values of Slavery: 1. Masters and slaves in early
Christian discourse Peter J. J. Botha; 2. Slavery and religion in Late
Antiquity: their relation to ascetism and justice in Christianity and
Judaism Ilaria Ramelli; 3. (II) Legal freedom: Chris as liberator from
satanic debt bondage in Greek literature of Late Antiquity Arkadiy
Avdokhin; 4. Late Roman ideas of ethnicity and enslavement Maijastina
Kahlos; II. Slavery, Cultural Discourses, and Identity: 5. Slavery in
Euphemia and the Goth Chris L. De Wet; 6. What was Jewish slavery in Late
Antiquity? Catherine Hezser; 7. Divining slavery in Late Ancient Egypt:
doulology in the monastic works of Paul of Tamma and Shenoute Christine
Luckritz Marquis; 8. Rural slavery in Late Roman Gaul: literary genres,
theoretical frames and narratives Uiran Gebara da Silva; III. Slavery,
Social History, and the Papyrological and Epigraphical Sources: 9. Slaves
in the sixth century Palestine in the light of papyrological evidence Marja
Vierros; 10. Child slaves in Roman Egypt: experiences from the papyri April
Pudsey and Ville Vuolanto; 11. Late antique slavery in epigraphic evidence
Mariana Bodnaruk; IV. Social and Religious Histories of Slavery on the
Borders of the Empire and Beyond: 12. Slavery among the Visigoths Noel
Lenski; 13. Sinner, slave, bishop, saint: the social and religious
vicissitudes of St. Patrick Judith Evans Grubbs; 14. Slave boys in
paradise? The Evidence of the Quary and its later exegetes Ilkka Lindstedt.