ISBN:
0521862116
,
0511244800
,
9780521862110
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 226 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Poverty in the Roman World
DDC:
305.5/690937
Keywords:
Poor Social conditions
;
Poverty
;
Poverty Moral and ethical aspects
;
Poverty Religious aspects
;
Poverty Political aspects
;
Rome Social conditions
Abstract:
What is poverty? What is to be done about it? These are difficult questions in any period. This book looks at how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty. It considers their political importance and how far the rise of Christianity affected their treatment
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction: Roman poverty in context; Chapter 2 The poor in the city of Rome; Chapter 3 Stratification, deprivation and quality of life; Chapter 4 'You do him no service': an exploration of pagan almsgiving; Chapter 5 Writing poverty in Rome; Chapter 6 Poverty and population in Roman Egypt ; Chapter 7 A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches: Ambrosiaster's quaestio 124; Chapter 8 Portraying the poor: descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the late Roman empire
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 9 Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique churchChapter 10 Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul; Chapter 11 Poverty and Roman law; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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