دانلود کتاب Social Control in Late Antiquity: The Violence of Small Worlds

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Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Contents
List of
Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Violence of Small Worlds: Rethinking Small-Scale Social Control in Late Antiquity
Social Control in the Small Worlds of Late Antiquity
Religion and the Small Worlds of Late Antiquity
Part I Women and Children First: Autonomy and Social Control in the Late Ancient Household
Chapter 1 Female Crime and Female Confinement in Late Antiquity
Female Criminals and Late Antique Criminal Justice
Judicial and Extrajudicial Redress of Female Crime
Female Domestic Seclusion in the Late Antique World
Female Monastic Confinement
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Holy Beatings: Emmelia, Her Son Gregory of Nyssa, and the Forty Martyrs of Sebasteia
Introduction
The Law and Corrective Violence in the Household in Fourth Century Cappadocia
Family Circumstances Surrounding Gregory\'s Traumatic Event
Preaching the Beating: Violence and Meaning for the Faithful
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Power, Faith, and Reciprocity in a Slave Society: Domestic Relationships in the Preaching of John Chrysostom
Sources
Husband and Wife in Chrysostom\'s Preaching
Father and Son in Chrysostom\'s Preaching
Master and Slave in Chrysostom\'s Preaching
Conclusion
Chapter 4 A Predator and a Gentleman: Augustine, Autobiography, and the Ethics of Christian Marriage
Reconceiving the Roman Sexual Landscape in Late Antiquity: Sexual Symmetry or Asymmetry?
Wives and Concubines: Augustine\'s Moral Logic
Conclusion: Christians, Marriage, and the Evolving Role of Bishops
Part II \'Slaves, be subject to your masters\': Discipline and Moral Autonomy in a Slave Society
Chapter 5 Modelling Msarrqūtā: Humiliation, Christian Monasticism, and the Ascetic Life of Slavery in Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamia
When Worlds Collide
Institutional Slavery in Urban and Rural Syria and Mesopotamia: The Witness of John Chrysostom
Modelling Msarrqūtā: Slavery and Syrian Asceticism
Slavery as Ascetic Practice at the Dawn of Islam
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Constructing Complexity: Slavery in the Small Worlds of Early Monasticism
Slavery in Jewish/Christian Asceticism
Philo (20 bce–50 ce, Alexandria)
Generations of Paul (~30–120 ce, Asia Minor)
Slavery in Late Antiquity
John Chrysostom (347–407 ce, Antioch)
Slavery in Monastic Asceticism
Gregory of Nyssa, Vita Macrinae (329–389/90 ce, Cappadocia)
Palladius (368–431 ce), Historia Lausiaca
Apophthegmata Patrum (fifth to seventh centuries)
Monastic Material Landscapes
Monastic Legal Landscapes
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Disciplining the Slaves of God: Monastic Children in Egypt at the End of Antiquity
The Monastery as Refuge: Children Whose Survival Depended on Monks
Children in Monasteries: Rules Governing an Uneasy Presence
Institutional Perspectives: Children and the Reproduction of the Monastic Community
Children, Not Only in But Also of the Monasteries: Strategies of Autonomy and Belonging
Conclusion
Part III Knowledge, Power, and Symbolic Violence: The Aesthetics of Control in Christian Pedagogy
Chapter 8 John Chrysostom and the Strategic Use of Fear
The Bridle of Fear
Fear as a Goad
Fear as a Deliberative State
Conclusion
Chapter 9 The Fear of Belonging: The Violent Training of Elite Males in the Late Fourth Century
Violent Process and Violent Content in Libanius\' Classroom in Late Roman Antioch
Fear, the Maintenance of the Pedagogic Order and the Formation of the Elite Male Subject
Limiting Individual Violence and Producing and Protecting the Community
Violent Process and Content in Ascetic Training in the Communities of Basil the Great
Fear, Shame, and the Formation of the Ascetic Subject
Training Individual Ascetics and the Formation of the Monastic Community
Conclusion
Chapter 10 Words at War: Textual Violence in Eusebius of Caesarea
Violent Historical Contexts
Narrative Description of Violence
Violent Language
Violent Metaphors: Cutting
Violent Metaphors: Forcing
Logomachia: Words at War
Quotation as \'Poaching\': Complicating the Analysis of Textual Violence
Chapter 11 Of Sojourners and Soldiers: Demonic Violence in the Letters of Antony and the Life of Antony
The Sojourner
Antony\'s Narrative Frame
Demonic Intrusion
Ascetic Subjectivity in Antony
The Soldier
Athanasius\' Narrative Frame
The Demon Enemy
Ascetic Subjectivity in Athanasius
Conclusion: From Sojourner to Soldier
Chapter 12 Coercing the Catechists: Augustine\'s De Catechizandis Rudibus
Becoming a Christian in Augustine\'s North Africa
How to Manage Customer Expectations
How to Manage Employee Dissatisfaction
Selling Christianity in a Buyer\'s Market
Conclusion
Part IV Vulnerability and Power: Christian Heroines and the Small Worlds of Late Antiquity
Chapter 13 Reading Thecla in Fourth-Century Pontus: Violence, Virginity, and Female Autonomy in Gregory of Nyssa\'s Life of Macrina
Father Knows Best: Arranged Marriage and Parent–Child Complicity
Flying the Nest: Thecla, Eugenia, and the Spectre of Violence
Family Realities: Macrina, Emmelia, and the Pain of Compromise
Reading Thecla: The Many Roles of Emmelia
A Utopian Household: Gregory\'s Memorial and the Ascetic Female Home
Chapter 14 Family Heroines: Female Vulnerability in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan
Ambrose in Milan
Building Legitimacy: Female Relatives in Ambrose\'s Early Episcopate
Exposed Domesticity and High Politics in Ambrose\'s Letters
Conclusion
Chapter 15 Women on the Edge: Violence, \'Othering\', and the Limits of Imperial Power in Euphemia and the Goth
Introduction
Synopsis
Syrian Identity and Roman Power in Euphemia
Violence and Dislocation: Gothia and Edessa
Legitimising Violence
Family, Gender, and Power
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Literature
Index