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Social Control in Late Antiquity - The Violence of Small Worlds (Hardcover)
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Social Control in Late Antiquity - The Violence of Small Worlds (Hardcover)
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Social Control in Late Antiquity: The Violence of Small Worlds
explores the small-scale communities of late antiquity -
households, monasteries, and schools - where power was a question
of personal relationships. When fathers, husbands, teachers,
abbots, and slave-owners asserted their own will, they saw
themselves as maintaining the social order, and expected law and
government to reinforce their rule. Naturally, the members of these
communities had their own ideas, and teaching them to 'obey their
betters' was not always a straightforward business. Drawing on a
wide variety of sources from across the late Roman Mediterranean,
from law codes and inscriptions to monastic rules and hagiography,
the book considers the sometimes conflicting identities of women,
slaves, and children, and documents how they found opportunities
for agency and recognition within a system built on the unremitting
assertion of the rights of the powerful.
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