Author : Sandra R. Joshel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521535018
A lively and comprehensive overview of Roman slavery, ideal for introductory-level students of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Author : K. R. Bradley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195206074
This ground-breaking book is the first to show how the institution of slavery, one of the most characteristic and enduring features of Roman imperial society, was maintained over time and how, at the practical level, the lives of slaves in the Roman world were directly controlled by their masters. The author demonstrates, first, how the tensions generated between slaves and masters can be perceived in the ancient sources, and, second, how those tensions were dealt with, as masters treated their slaves with varying forms of generosity and punishment in order to elicit obedience from them. Special attention is given to the slaves' family lives, to their acquisition of freedom through manumission, and to the climate of violence that surrounded them. Emphasizing the harsh realities of Roman slavery in a new way, this important book will stir intense debate among scholars and students.
Author : Kyle Harper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1139504061
Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery. Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, arguing instead that a deep divide runs through 'late antiquity', separating the Roman slave system from its early medieval successors. In the process, he covers the economic, social and institutional dimensions of ancient slavery and presents the most comprehensive analytical treatment of a pre-modern slave system now available. By scouring the late antique record, he has uncovered a wealth of new material, providing fresh insights into the ancient slave system, including slavery's role in agriculture and textile production, its relation to sexual exploitation, and the dynamics of social honor. By demonstrating the vitality of slavery into the later Roman empire, the author shows that Christianity triumphed amidst a genuine slave society.
Author : R.H. Barrow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1000647811
Slavery in the Roman Empire, first published in 1928, examines the working of slavery in the first two centuries of the Roman Empire. It analyses the means by which peoples were enslaved, and the roles in which they worked in Roman society.
Author : Zvi Yavetz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412834131
Enormous numbers of slaves were absorbed into Roman society from the third century B.C. onwards. Mainly enslaved prisoners of war, they transformed the quality of life in the Roman Empire beyond recognition. In this anthology the author offers a complete collection of Greek and Latin sources in an English translation which deal with the great slave rebellions in the second and first centuries B.C. In a postscript Zvi Yavetz surveys the controversy on slaves and slavery from the French Revolution to our own days, with an emphasis on the debate between Marxists and non-Marxists. The book is intended for specialists and generalists alike, including those who have had no previous classical education, but could after delving in sources concern themselves with one of the most intriguing problems in world history. Zvi Yavetz holds the Lessing Chair of Roman History at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and is distinguished visiting professor at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is the author of many books in Hebrew, French and German on Roman history among which are Julius Caesar and His Public Image and Plebs and Princips.
Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521898226
Thanks to its exceptional size and duration, the Roman Empire offers one of the best opportunities to study economic development in the context of an agrarian world empire. This volume, which is organised thematically, provides a sophisticated introduction to and assessment of all aspects of its economic life.
Author : Keith R. Bradley
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Bradley's study carefully analyses and describes the 3 major slave rebellions and uprisings that occurred during the period 140 B.C. to 70 B.C. His analysis examines the conditions that led the slaves to resist and how they maintained the rebellion.
Author : Keith Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 1994-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 131613914X
This book, first published in 1994, is concerned with discovering what it was like to be a slave in the classical Roman world, and with revealing the impact the institution of slavery made on Roman society at large. It shows how and in what sense Rome was a slave society through much of its history, considers how the Romans procured their slaves, discusses the work roles slaves fulfilled and the material conditions under which they spent their lives, investigates how slaves responded to and resisted slavery, and reveals how slavery, as an institution, became more and more oppressive over time under the impact of philosophical and religious teaching. The book stresses the harsh realities of life in slavery and the way in which slavery was an integral part of Roman civilisation.
Author : Teresa Ramsby
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1472504496
Building on recent dynamic visual, literary and archaeological work on Roman freedmen, this book examines the impact of freed slaves on Roman society and culture.
Author : Myles Lavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1107311128
This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how Roman writers turn to paradigmatic modes of dependency familiar from everyday life - not just slavery but also clientage and childhood - in order to describe their authority over, and responsibilities to, the subject population of the provinces. It traces the relative importance of these different models for the imperial project across almost three centuries of Latin literature, from the middle of the first century BCE to the beginning of the third century CE.
