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Banishment in the Later Roman Empire, 284-476 CE (Hardcover, New)
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Banishment in the Later Roman Empire, 284-476 CE (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History
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This book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment
in the final era of a unified Roman Empire, 284-476 CE. Author
Daniel Washburn argues that exile was both a penalty and a symbol.
It applied to those who committed a misstep or crossed the wrong
person; it also stood as a marker of affliction or failure. Like
other punishments, it articulated and cemented the power asymmetry
between the punisher and the punished. Distinctively, it maneuvered
the body of the banished in order to tell that tale. The process of
banishment also operated as a form of negotiation between the party
that exiled and the one banished. In so doing, the punishment
offered the possibility for pardon, an event that glorified the
pardoner and signaled submissiveness on the part of the restored.
In its sources, this work employs evidence from legal as well as
literary materials to forge a complete picture of exile. To harvest
all possible information from the period, it considers elements
from the arenas of the early church and the Roman Empire.
Methodologically, it situates ancient Christianity within the Roman
world, while remaining sensitive to the distinct views and roles
held by late antique bishops. While banishment played a major role
in the history of the Later Empire, no work of scholarship has
treated it as a topic in its own right.
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