Daily Life in Late Antiquity - Softcover

Sessa, Kristina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521148405 ISBN 13: 9780521148405

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from c.250–600 CE. Each topical chapter highlights historical 'everyday' people, spaces, and objects, whose lives operate as windows into the ever-changing late ancient economy, social relations, religious systems, cultural habits, and the material environment.

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Reseña del editor

Daily Life in Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive study of lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from c.250–600 CE. Each of the six topical chapters highlight historical 'everyday' people, spaces, and objects, whose lives operate as windows into the late ancient economy, social relations, military service, religious systems, cultural habits, and the material environment. However, it is nevertheless grounded in late ancient primary sources - many of which are available in accessible English translations - and the most recent, cutting-edge scholarship by specialists in fields such as archaeology, social history, religious studies, and environmental history. From Manichean rituals to military service, gladiatorial combat to garbage collection, patrician households to peasant families, Daily Life in Late Antiquity introduces readers to the world of late antiquity from the bottom up.

Biografía del autor

Kristina Sessa is the author of The Formation of Papal Authority in Late Antique Italy (Cambridge, 2012). She is presently writing a book about war, environmental crisis, and the formation of Christian institutions in the late Roman West. Her scholarship has been supported by awards from the ACLS, the American Academy in Rome, and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0521148405
• ISBN 13: 9780521148405
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262