Social Control in Late Antiquity : The Violence of Small Worlds
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Wood, Jamie, 1978-
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Cooper, Kate, 1960- , [HerausgeberIn] |
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Cambridge :
University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations,
2020.
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1 online resource (396 pages) |
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Cooper, Kate, Social Control in Late Antiquity : The Violence of Small Worlds (Print version:) | ISSN: 9781108479394 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
