Table Of ContentSOCIAL 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
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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
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‘, ’
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
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