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Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside (Hardcover)
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Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside (Hardcover)
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This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the 'small
politics' of rural communities in the Late Roman world. It places
the diverse fates of those communities within a generalized model
for exploring rural social systems. Fundamentally, social
interactions in rural contexts in the period revolved around the
desire of individual households to insure themselves against
catastrophic subsistence failure and the need of the communities in
which they lived to manage the attendant social tensions,
inequalities and conflicts. A focus upon the politics of reputation
in those communities provides a striking contrast to the picture
painted by the legislation and the writings of Rome's literate
elite: when viewed from the point of view of the peasantry, issues
such as the Christianization of the countryside, the emergence of
new types of patronage relations, and the effects of the new system
of taxation upon rural social structures take on a different
aspect.
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