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  • Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 - 700 CE

    Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 - 700 CE by de Wet, Chris L.; Kahlos, Maijastina; Vuolanto, Ville;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 25 January 2024

    • ISBN 9781108699983
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages380 pages
    • Size 229x152x22 mm
    • Weight 615 g
    • Language English
    • 622

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    Short description:

    An investigation into slaveholding and slave experience in late antiquity, focusing on ideological, moral and cultural aspects of slavery.

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    Long description:

    Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 - 700 CE investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean basin and Europe during a period of profound transformation. It focuses on socially marginal areas and individuals on an unprecedented scale. Written by an international team of scholars, the volume establishes that late ancient slavery is a complex and polymorphous phenomenon, one that was conditioned by culture and geography. Rejecting preconceived ideas about slavery as static and without regional variation, it offers focused case studies spanning the late ancient period. They provide in-depth analyses of authors and works, and consider a range of factors relevant to the practice of slavery in specific geographical locations. Using comparative and methodologically innovative approaches, this book revisits and questions established assumptions about late ancient slavery. It also enables fresh insights into one of humanity's most tragic institutions.

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    Table of Contents:

    I. Moral and Symbolic Values of Slavery: 1. Masters and slaves in early Christian discourse Peter J. J. Botha; 2. Slavery and religion in Late Antiquity: their relation to ascetism and justice in Christianity and Judaism Ilaria Ramelli; 3. (II) Legal freedom: Chris as liberator from satanic debt bondage in Greek literature of Late Antiquity Arkadiy Avdokhin; 4. Late Roman ideas of ethnicity and enslavement Maijastina Kahlos; II. Slavery, Cultural Discourses, and Identity: 5. Slavery in Euphemia and the Goth Chris L. De Wet; 6. What was Jewish slavery in Late Antiquity? Catherine Hezser; 7. Divining slavery in Late Ancient Egypt: doulology in the monastic works of Paul of Tamma and Shenoute Christine Luckritz Marquis; 8. Rural slavery in Late Roman Gaul: literary genres, theoretical frames and narratives Uiran Gebara da Silva; III. Slavery, Social History, and the Papyrological and Epigraphical Sources: 9. Slaves in the sixth century Palestine in the light of papyrological evidence Marja Vierros; 10. Child slaves in Roman Egypt: experiences from the papyri April Pudsey and Ville Vuolanto; 11. Late antique slavery in epigraphic evidence Mariana Bodnaruk; IV. Social and Religious Histories of Slavery on the Borders of the Empire and Beyond: 12. Slavery among the Visigoths Noel Lenski; 13. Sinner, slave, bishop, saint: the social and religious vicissitudes of St. Patrick Judith Evans Grubbs; 14. Slave boys in paradise? The Evidence of the Quary and its later exegetes Ilkka Lindstedt.

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