Slavery in the late Roman world, AD 275-425 /
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Language: English
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Call Number: HT863 .H36 2011
Table of Contents:
- •List of tables •Acknowledgments •Part I. The Economy of Slavery •Introduction •1. Among slave systems: a profile of late Roman slavery •2. The endless river: the supply and trade of slaves •3. Oikonomia: households, consumption, and production •4. Agricultural slavery: exchange, institutions, estates •Part II. The Making of Honorable Society •Introduction •5. Semper timere: the aims and techniques of domination •6. Self, family, and community among slaves •7. Sex, status, and social reproduction •8. Mastery and the making of honor •Part III. The Imperial Order •Introduction •9. Citizenship and civil conflict: slave status after the Antonine Constitution •10. The enslavement of Mediterranean bodies: child exposure and child sale •11. The community of honor: the state and sexuality •12. Rites of manumission, rights of the freed •Conclusion •After the fall: Roman slavery and the end of antiquity •Appendixes •1. The word ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ in late antiquity •2. Slaves in the Codex Hermogenianus •Bibliography •Index