Social Control in Late Antiquity : The Violence of Small Worlds

Weitere Verfasser: Wood, Jamie, 1978- , [HerausgeberIn]
Cooper, Kate, 1960- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge : University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, 2020.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (396 pages)
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Parallelausgabe: Cooper, Kate, Social Control in Late Antiquity : The Violence of Small Worlds (Print version:) | ISSN: 9781108479394
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505 0 |a Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Violence of Small Worlds: Rethinking Small-Scale Social Control in Late Antiquity -- Social Control in the Small Worlds of Late Antiquity -- Religion and the Small Worlds of Late Antiquity -- Part I Women and Children First: Autonomy and Social Control in the Late Ancient Household -- Chapter 1 Female Crime and Female Confinement in Late Antiquity -- Female Criminals and Late Antique Criminal Justice -- Judicial and Extrajudicial Redress of Female Crime -- Female Domestic Seclusion in the Late Antique World -- Female Monastic Confinement -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Holy Beatings: Emmelia, Her Son Gregory of Nyssa, and the Forty Martyrs of Sebasteia -- Introduction -- The Law and Corrective Violence in the Household in Fourth Century Cappadocia -- Family Circumstances Surrounding Gregory's Traumatic Event -- Preaching the Beating: Violence and Meaning for the Faithful -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Power, Faith, and Reciprocity in a Slave Society: Domestic Relationships in the Preaching of John Chrysostom -- Sources -- Husband and Wife in Chrysostom's Preaching -- Father and Son in Chrysostom's Preaching -- Master and Slave in Chrysostom's Preaching -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 A Predator and a Gentleman: Augustine, Autobiography, and the Ethics of Christian Marriage -- Reconceiving the Roman Sexual Landscape in Late Antiquity: Sexual Symmetry or Asymmetry? -- Wives and Concubines: Augustine's Moral Logic -- Conclusion: Christians, Marriage, and the Evolving Role of Bishops -- Part II 'Slaves, be subject to your masters': Discipline and Moral Autonomy in a Slave Society. 
505 8 |a Chapter 5 Modelling Msarrqūtā: Humiliation, Christian Monasticism, and the Ascetic Life of Slavery in Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamia -- When Worlds Collide -- Institutional Slavery in Urban and Rural Syria and Mesopotamia: The Witness of John Chrysostom -- Modelling Msarrqūtā: Slavery and Syrian Asceticism -- Slavery as Ascetic Practice at the Dawn of Islam -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Constructing Complexity: Slavery in the Small Worlds of Early Monasticism -- Slavery in Jewish/Christian Asceticism -- Philo (20 bce-50 ce, Alexandria) -- Generations of Paul (~30-120 ce, Asia Minor) -- Slavery in Late Antiquity -- John Chrysostom (347-407 ce, Antioch) -- Slavery in Monastic Asceticism -- Gregory of Nyssa, Vita Macrinae (329-389/90 ce, Cappadocia) -- Palladius (368-431 ce), Historia Lausiaca -- Apophthegmata Patrum (fifth to seventh centuries) -- Monastic Material Landscapes -- Monastic Legal Landscapes -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Disciplining the Slaves of God: Monastic Children in Egypt at the End of Antiquity -- The Monastery as Refuge: Children Whose Survival Depended on Monks -- Children in Monasteries: Rules Governing an Uneasy Presence -- Institutional Perspectives: Children and the Reproduction of the Monastic Community -- Children, Not Only in But Also of the Monasteries: Strategies of Autonomy and Belonging -- Conclusion -- Part III Knowledge, Power, and Symbolic Violence: The Aesthetics of Control in Christian Pedagogy -- Chapter 8 John Chrysostom and the Strategic Use of Fear -- The Bridle of Fear -- Fear as a Goad -- Fear as a Deliberative State -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 The Fear of Belonging: The Violent Training of Elite Males in the Late Fourth Century -- Violent Process and Violent Content in Libanius' Classroom in Late Roman Antioch -- Fear, the Maintenance of the Pedagogic Order and the Formation of the Elite Male Subject. 
505 8 |a Limiting Individual Violence and Producing and Protecting the Community -- Violent Process and Content in Ascetic Training in the Communities of Basil the Great -- Fear, Shame, and the Formation of the Ascetic Subject -- Training Individual Ascetics and the Formation of the Monastic Community -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 Words at War: Textual Violence in Eusebius of Caesarea -- Violent Historical Contexts -- Narrative Description of Violence -- Violent Language -- Violent Metaphors: Cutting -- Violent Metaphors: Forcing -- Logomachia: Words at War -- Quotation as 'Poaching': Complicating the Analysis of Textual Violence -- Chapter 11 Of Sojourners and Soldiers: Demonic Violence in the Letters of Antony and the Life of Antony -- The Sojourner -- Antony's Narrative Frame -- Demonic Intrusion -- Ascetic Subjectivity in Antony -- The Soldier -- Athanasius' Narrative Frame -- The Demon Enemy -- Ascetic Subjectivity in Athanasius -- Conclusion: From Sojourner to Soldier -- Chapter 12 Coercing the Catechists: Augustine's De Catechizandis Rudibus -- Becoming a Christian in Augustine's North Africa -- How to Manage Customer Expectations -- How to Manage Employee Dissatisfaction -- Selling Christianity in a Buyer's Market -- Conclusion -- Part IV Vulnerability and Power: Christian Heroines and the Small Worlds of Late Antiquity -- Chapter 13 Reading Thecla in Fourth-Century Pontus: Violence, Virginity, and Female Autonomy in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina -- Father Knows Best: Arranged Marriage and Parent-Child Complicity -- Flying the Nest: Thecla, Eugenia, and the Spectre of Violence -- Family Realities: Macrina, Emmelia, and the Pain of Compromise -- Reading Thecla: The Many Roles of Emmelia -- A Utopian Household: Gregory's Memorial and the Ascetic Female Home -- Chapter 14 Family Heroines: Female Vulnerability in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan. 
505 8 |a Ambrose in Milan -- Building Legitimacy: Female Relatives in Ambrose's Early Episcopate -- Exposed Domesticity and High Politics in Ambrose's Letters -- Conclusion -- Chapter 15 Women on the Edge: Violence, 'Othering', and the Limits of Imperial Power in Euphemia and the Goth -- Introduction -- Synopsis -- Syrian Identity and Roman Power in Euphemia -- Violence and Dislocation: Gothia and Edessa -- Legitimising Violence -- Family, Gender, and Power -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Index. 
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