ISBN:
0511394608
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0511393954
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9780511394607
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9780511393952
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 319 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cooper, Kate, 1960- Fall of the Roman household
DDC:
306.630937
Keywords:
Families Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Families
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Religion
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology of Religion
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Families ; Religious aspects ; Christianity
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Civilization ; Christian influences
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History
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Families
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Rome Civilization
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Christian influences
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Rome Religion
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Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
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Rome (Empire)
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Epigraph -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 'The battle of this life' -- Against luxury: Commodian -- The miles Christi as a devotional model for christian women -- Fathers and sons -- Miles Christi and miles saeculi -- Poverty, obligation, and inheritance: traditionalist senatorial Christianity during and after the barbarian invasions -- Ad Gregoriam in Palatio: the senatorial domina as miles Christi -- The domina at the gate -- Chapter 2 'The obscurity of eloquence' -- The 'jewelled style' and the Cento of Proba -- Prudentius -- The Aristocratic Laity and the 'Ostrogothic renaissance' -- Boethius, Cassiodorus, Benedict, Gregory -- Christian prose and the 'jewelled style' -- Chapter 3 Household and empire -- The structure of the late Roman estate -- Domus and familia -- The domina as female paterfamilias -- Obligation and reciprocity: the Bobbio domina -- Slaves and masters: Ad Gregoriam in Palatio -- Gregoria and Reginus: Spielregeln for a Christian Aristocracy? -- The coming Judgement -- Chapter 4 'Such trustful partnership': the marriage bond in Latin conduct literature -- Roman marriage in late antiquity -- From Diocletian to Justinian: the changing balance of power in the late Roman household -- The early Christian legacy -- Augustine, Pelagius, and the Latin readers of John Chrysostom -- Celanthia and Optatus: the permanence of the marriage bond -- Ad Gregoriam in Palatio and Augustinian mediocritas -- Chapter 5 The invisible enemy -- The paradox of invisible powers in early patristic tradition: Tertullian and Cyprian -- Origen and Ambrose -- Imitatio -- The late fourth-century sources -- Arnobius the Younger -- The raiment of mortal flesh -- Appendix. Ad Gregoriam in palatio -- Chapter 1. That the human race is to be allowed to be tested for a time, so that it may rejoice forever in the future -- Chapter 2. The nobility of the soul is to be defended -- Chapter 3. It is through endurance (patientiam) that all virtues are able to exist -- Chapter 4. What kind of thing in particular is endurance -- Chapter 5. That the kind of person who disdained the virtue of patience in time of peace is not likely to bear the persecutions of martyrdom successfully -- Chapter 6. Excepting by the will of God, the wife should not despise the will of the husband in any matter -- Chapter 7. With respect to what duties and by what judgements a true wife is to be judged -- Chapter 8. By compliance husbands can be won over by wives, and can be called out to the grace of the Holy Spirit from the traffic of the flesh -- Chapter 9. It is better to teach the things to be avoided rather than those to be set aright [after the wrong is done] -- Chapter 10. A viewing-tower is set up in contemplation, ascending which the soul turns its attention either to those winning or to those losing, in order to imitate them -- Chapter 11. The battle of truth against falsehood -- Chapter 12. The fight of liberality (benignitas) against avarice -- Chapter 13. The battle of faithlessness in support of avarice against the despiser of the world (contemptorem mundi) -- Chapter 14. The battle of abstinence against gluttony -- Chapter 15. Against desire of the flesh [concupiscentia] -- Chapter 16. Of endurance -- Chapter 17. That a woman placed in marriage should search the will of God through His law, and keep the commandments ... -- Chapter 18. A respectable Christian married woman must be so he.
Abstract:
Edward Gibbon laid the fall of the Roman Empire at Christianity's door, suggesting that 'pusillanimous youth preferred the penance of the monastic to the dangers of a military life ... whole legions were buried in these religious sanctuaries'. This surprising 2007 study suggests that, far from seeing Christianity as the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire, we should understand the Christianisation of the household as a central Roman survival strategy. By establishing new 'ground rules' for marriage and family life, 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. In doing so, these men and women - both clergy and lay - found themselves changing both what it meant to be Roman, and what it meant to be Christian
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-308) and index
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