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SOCIAL CONTROL IN LATE ANTIQUITY SocialControlinLateAntiquity:TheViolenceofSmallWorldsexplores the small-scale communities of late antiquity – households, monas- teries,andschools–wherepowerwasaquestionofpersonalrelation- ships. When fathers, husbands, teachers, abbots, and slave-owners assertedtheirownwill,theysawthemselvesasmaintainingthesocial order, and expected law and government to reinforce their rule. Naturally, the members of these communities had their own ideas, and teaching them to ‘obey their betters’ was not always a straight- forward business. Drawing on a wide variety of sources from across the late Roman Mediterranean, from law codes and inscriptions to monastic rules and hagiography, the book considers the sometimes conflicting identities of women, slaves, and children and asks how theyfoundopportunitiesforagencyandrecognitionwithinasystem built ontheunremitting assertion of the rights of thepowerful. isProfessorofHistoryatRoyalHolloway,University of London. She writes and teaches about Roman history and early Christianity with a special interest in daily life, gender, and the household. Her publications include Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women (), The Fall of the Roman Household (), and The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Woman- hood in Late Antiquity (). Kate has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including the Rome Prize of the American Acad- emy in Rome, an RCUK Global Uncertainties Fellowship, and a LeverhulmeTrust MajorResearch Fellowship. is Associate Professor of History at the University of Lincoln. He works on late antique and early medieval history, with particular interests in the religious and social history of the Iberian Peninsula. He has published widely on the writings of Isidore of Seville, including: The Politics of Identity in Visigothic Spain (), A Companion to Isidore of Seville (co-edited, ), and Isidore of Seville and His Reception in the Early Middle Ages (co-edited, ). Jamie’s postdoctoral research was funded by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and he has received grants from the British Academy and the Gulbenkian Foundation, among others. He is currentlywritingabookabouttheByzantinepresenceintheIberian Peninsula inthe sixth and seventh centuries. SOCIAL CONTROL IN LATE ANTIQUITY The Violence of Small Worlds KATE COOPER RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon JAMIE WOOD UniversityofLincoln UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,, WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India AnsonRoad,#–/,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. 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LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData :Cooper,Kate,-editor.|Wood,Jamie,-editor. :Socialcontrolinlateantiquity:theviolenceofsmallworlds/editedbyKateCooper,Royal Holloway,UniversityofLondon,JamieWood,UniversityofLincoln. :Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,:CambridgeUniversityPress,.| Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. :(print)|(ebook)| (hardback)|(paperback)|(epub) ::Socialcontrol–Rome–History–To.|Violence–Rome–History–To.| Socialstructure–Rome–History–To.|Romanprovinces–Administration.| Rome–History–Empire,-. :.(print)|.(ebook)| ./–dc recordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ ebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents List of Contributors page viii Preface and Acknowledgements ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction. The Violence of Small Worlds RethinkingSmall-ScaleSocialControlinLateAntiquity Kate Cooper and Jamie Wood Female Crime and Female Confinement in Late Antiquity Julia Hillner Holy Beatings Emmelia,HerSonGregoryofNyssa,andtheFortyMartyrsofSebasteia Vasiliki Limberis Power, Faith, and Reciprocity in a Slave Society DomesticRelationshipsinthePreachingofJohnChrysostom Jonathan Tallon A Predator and a Gentleman Augustine,Autobiography,andtheEthicsofChristianMarriage Kate Cooper v vi Contents ‘, ’ Modelling Msarrqūtā Humiliation,ChristianMonasticism,andtheAsceticLifeofSlavery inLateAntiqueSyriaandMesopotamia ChrisL. deWet Constructing Complexity SlaveryintheSmallWorldsofEarlyMonasticism LillianI. Larsen Disciplining the Slaves of God MonasticChildreninEgyptattheEndofAntiquity Maria Chiara Giorda , , John Chrysostom and the Strategic Use of Fear Blake Leyerle The Fear of Belonging TheViolentTrainingofEliteMalesintheLateFourthCentury JamieWood Words at War TextualViolenceinEusebiusofCaesarea AaronP. Johnson Of Sojourners and Soldiers DemonicViolenceintheLettersofAntonyandtheLifeofAntony Blossom Stefaniw Coercing the Catechists Augustine’sDeCatechizandisRudibus Melissa Markauskas Contents vii Reading Thecla in Fourth-Century Pontus Violence,Virginity,andFemaleAutonomyinGregory ofNyssa’sLifeofMacrina James Corke-Webster Family Heroines FemaleVulnerabilityintheWritingsofAmbroseofMilan David Natal Women on the Edge Violence,‘Othering’,andtheLimitsofImperialPower inEuphemiaandtheGoth ThomasDimambro Bibliography Index Contributors ,ProfessorofHistory,RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon -, Senior Lecturer in Roman History, King’s College London . , Associate Professor of Biblical and Ancient Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria ,FinancialPlanningandAnalysisManager,National Grid, Warwick , Professore Associato in Studi Umanistici, Uni- versità Roma Tre , Professor of Medieval History, University of Sheffield . , Associate Professor of Humanities, Lee University . ,ProfessorofReligiousStudies,UniversityofRedlands , Associate Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame , Professor of Religion, Temple University , Departmental Support Administrator, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester ,Lecturerin History, RoyalHolloway,Universityof London , Heisenberg Fellow, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg , Tutor in Biblical Studies, Northern Baptist College , Associate Professor of History, University of Lincoln viii
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