Fall of the Roman Household

Informationen zum Autor KATE COOPER is Director of the Centre for Late Antiquity and Senior Lecturer in Early Christianity at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity (1996) and editor (with Julia Hillner) of Religion! Dynasty! and Patronage in Early Christian Rome! 300-900 (2007). Klappentext This 2007 text argues that Christianising the household became a central survival strategy for the Roman Empire. Zusammenfassung This text argues that the Roman Christians of the last century of the Western empire found a way to re-invent the Roman family as a social institution to weather the political! military! and social upheaval of two centuries of invasion and civil war. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 'The battle of this life'; 2. 'The obscurity of eloquence'; 3. Household and empire; 4. 'Such trustful partnership': the marriage bond in Latin conduct literature; 5. The invisible enemy; Appendix. Ad Gregoriam in palatio: an English translation.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Fales Cooper, Kate Cooper, Kate (University of Manchester) Cooper, Cooper Kate
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2007
• EAN: 9780521884600
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88460-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Religion & beliefs, Christian life & practice, History of Religion, Ancient World, Holy Roman Empire, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, General and world history, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology