Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside

Informationen zum Autor Cam Grey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research covers the social and economic history of the Later Roman Empire. He is also a co-director of 'The Roman Peasant Project', an archaeological project located in southern Tuscany that amounts to the first systematic, interdisciplinary attempt to analyze the houses, farms and lived experiences of the Roman peasantry. Klappentext The first comprehensive treatment of the 'small politics' of rural communities in the Late Roman world. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive treatment of the 'small politics' of rural communities in the Late Roman world. It emphasizes the primacy of internal relations within those communities over interactions with the Roman state and its aristocracies! whose perspective has long dominated scholarly treatments of the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: studying rural communities in the Late Roman world; 1. Constituting communities: peasants, families, households; 2. What really matters: risk, reciprocity, and reputation; 3. Small politics: making decisions, managing tension, mediating conflict; 4. Power as a competitive exercise: potentates and communities; 5. Resistance, negotiation, and indifference: communities and potentates; 6. Creating communities: taxation and collective responsibility; 7. Unintended consequences: taxation, power, and communal conflict; Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Cam Grey, Cam (University of Pennsylvania) Grey, Grey Cam
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2011
• EAN: 9781107011625
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01162-5
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, Rural communities, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory