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Author | : Martin Schermaier |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2023-03-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110987228 |
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Slaves were property of their dominus, objects rather than persons, without rights: These are some components of our basic knowledge about Roman slavery. But Roman slavery was more diverse than we might assume from the standard wording about servile legal status. Numerous inscriptions as well as literary and legal sources reveal clear differences in the social structure of Roman slavery. There were numerous groups and professions who shared the status of being unfree while inhabiting very different worlds. The papers in this volume pose the question of whether and how legal texts reflected such social differences within the Roman servile community. Did the legal system reinscribe social differences, and if so, in what shape? Were exceptions created only in individual cases, or did the legal system generate privileges for particular groups of slaves? Did it reinforce and even promote social differentiation? All papers probe neuralgic points that are apt to challenge the homogeneous image of Roman slave law. They show that this law was a good deal more colourful than historical research has so far assumed. The authors’ primary concern is to make this legal diversity accessible to historical scholarship.
Author | : Kyle Harper |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 627 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139504061 |
Download Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery. Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, arguing instead that a deep divide runs through 'late antiquity', separating the Roman slave system from its early medieval successors. In the process, he covers the economic, social and institutional dimensions of ancient slavery and presents the most comprehensive analytical treatment of a pre-modern slave system now available. By scouring the late antique record, he has uncovered a wealth of new material, providing fresh insights into the ancient slave system, including slavery's role in agriculture and textile production, its relation to sexual exploitation, and the dynamics of social honor. By demonstrating the vitality of slavery into the later Roman empire, the author shows that Christianity triumphed amidst a genuine slave society.
Author | : Keith R. Bradley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1994-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521378871 |
Download Slavery and Society at Rome Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book, first published in 1994, is concerned with discovering what it was like to be a slave in the classical Roman world.
Author | : Walter Scheidel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2012-11-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521898226 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thanks to its exceptional size and duration, the Roman Empire offers one of the best opportunities to study economic development in the context of an agrarian world empire. This volume, which is organised thematically, provides a sophisticated introduction to and assessment of all aspects of its economic life.
Author | : Sandra R. Joshel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2010-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521535018 |
Download Slavery in the Roman World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A lively and comprehensive overview of Roman slavery, ideal for introductory-level students of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Author | : R.H. Barrow |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2022-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000647811 |
Download Slavery in the Roman Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Slavery in the Roman Empire, first published in 1928, examines the working of slavery in the first two centuries of the Roman Empire. It analyses the means by which peoples were enslaved, and the roles in which they worked in Roman society.
Author | : Rose MacLean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2018-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110714292X |
Download Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Argues that freed slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of Roman values under the Principate.
Author | : Matthew J. Perry |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107040310 |
Download Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the institution of manumission-the freeing of slaves-in ancient Rome from a gendered perspective. Rome was unique among ancient polities in that it bestowed freed slaves with full citizenship, granting them rights nearly equal to those of freeborn individuals. The sexual identities of a female slave and a female citizen were fundamentally incompatible, as the former was principally defined by her sexual availability and the latter by her sexual integrity. Accordingly, those evaluating the manumission process needed to reconcile a woman's experiences as a slave with the expectations and moral rigor required of the female citizen.
Author | : Sandra R. Joshel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 649 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 113999140X |
Download The Material Life of Roman Slaves Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Material Life of Roman Slaves is a major contribution to scholarly debates on the archaeology of Roman slavery. Rather than regarding slaves as irretrievable in archaeological remains, the book takes the archaeological record as a key form of evidence for reconstructing slaves' lives and experiences. Interweaving literature, law, and material evidence, the book searches for ways to see slaves in the various contexts - to make them visible where evidence tells us they were in fact present. Part of this project involves understanding how slaves seem irretrievable in the archaeological record and how they are often actively, if unwittingly, left out of guidebooks and scholarly literature. Individual chapters explore the dichotomy between visibility and invisibility and between appearance and disappearance in four physical and social locations - urban houses, city streets and neighborhoods, workshops, and villas.
Author | : Noel Emmanuel Lenski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2018-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107144892 |
Download What is a Slave Society? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.