Slavery in the late Roman world, AD 275-425 /
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Author / Creator: | Harper, Kyle, 1979- |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. |
Description: | xiv, 611 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8437456 |
Table of Contents:
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. The Economy of Slavery
- Introduction
- 1. Among slave systems: a profile of late Roman slavery
- 2. The endless river: the supply and trade of slaves
- 3. Oikonomia: households, consumption, and production
- 4. Agricultural slavery: exchange, institutions, estates
- Part II. The Making of Honorable Society
- Introduction
- 5. Semper timere: the aims and techniques of domination
- 6. Self, family, and community among slaves
- 7. Sex, status, and social reproduction
- 8. Mastery and the making of honor
- Part III. The Imperial Order
- Introduction
- 9. Citizenship and civil conflict: slave status after the Antonine Constitution
- 10. The enslavement of Mediterranean bodies: child exposure and child sale
- 11. The community of honor: the state and sexuality
- 12. Rites of manumission, rights of the freed
- Conclusion
- After the fall: Roman slavery and the end of antiquity
- Appendixes
- 1. The word ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ in late antiquity
- 2. Slaves in the Codex Hermogenianus
- Bibliography
- Index