RELIGION, DYNASTY, AND PATRONAGE IN EARLY CHRISTIAN ROME, 300-900 by Kate Cooper (Editor), Julia Hillner (Editor) ( 9780511482731 )

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Title:

RELIGION, DYNASTY, AND PATRONAGE IN EARLY CHRISTIAN ROME, 300-900

By:

Kate Cooper (Editor), Julia Hillner (Editor)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

0511482736

ISBN 13:

9780511482731

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

2 October, 2009

Description:

Discusses the transformation of Rome in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Synopsis:

Traces the central role played by aristocratic patronage in the transformation of the city of Rome at the end of antiquity. It moves away from privileging the administrative and institutional developments related to the rise of papal authority as the paramount theme in the city's post-classical history. Instead the focus shifts to the networks of reciprocity between patrons and their dependents. Using material culture and social theory to challenge traditional readings of the textual sources, the volume undermines the teleological picture of ecclesiastical sources such as the Liber Pontificalis, and presents the lay, clerical, and ascetic populations of the city of Rome at the end of antiquity as interacting in a fluid environment of alliance-building and status negotiation. By focusing on the city whose aristocracy is the best documented of any ancient population, the volume makes an important contribution to understanding the role played by elites across the end of antiquity.

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Returns:

Non-returnable

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