Constructing communities in the late Roman countryside
| 1. Verfasser: |
Grey, Cam, 1972-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xii, 269 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
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| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Imperium Romanum |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 3 Datensätze |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: studying rural communities in the Late Roman world
- 1. Constituting communities: peasants, families, households
- 2. What really matters: risk, reciprocity, and reputation
- 3. Small politics: making decisions, managing tension, mediating conflict
- 4. Power as a competitive exercise: potentates and communities
- 5. Resistance, negotiation, and indifference: communities and potentates
- 6. Creating communities: taxation and collective responsibility
- 7. Unintended consequences: taxation, power, and communal conflict
- Conclusions.
