Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa [electronic resource] / Leslie Dossey.
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TextSeries: Transformation of the classical heritage ; 47.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 352 p.) : illISBN: 9780520947771 (electronic bk.); 0520947770 (electronic bk.); 9780520254398 (Cloth); 0520254392 (Cloth)Subject(s): Africa, North -- History -- To 647 | Donatists | Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects | Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo | Preaching -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Rome -- Economic conditions -- 30 B.C.-476 A.D | Roman provinces -- Administration | Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476 | Byzantine Empire -- Social conditions | Africa, North | History | Peasants | Peasants -- Africa, North -- History | Rome | Rome -- History | Business | Social Science | Agriculture | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies | christianisme -- paysan -- Afrique (province romaine) -- pal�eochr�etien | paysan -- Afrique (province romaine) -- �epoque des conqu�etes romaines -- 6e s | milieu rural -- paysan -- soci�et�e (milieu humain) -- Afrique (province romaine) -- �epoque des conqu�etes romaines -- 6e sGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa.DDC classification: 305.5/6330939709015 LOC classification: HD1538.A355 | D67 2010ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical overview -- Rural consumption in early imperial North Africa -- A late antique consumer revolution? -- Frustrated communities : the rise and fall of the self-governing village -- Bishops where no bishops should be : the phenomenon of the rural bishopric -- Preaching to peasants -- Reinterpreting rebellion : textual communities and the circumcellions.
This remarkable history foregrounds the most marginal sector of the Roman population, the provincial peasantry, to paint a fascinating new picture of peasant society. Making use of detailed archaeological and textual evidence, Leslie Dossey examines the peasantry in relation to the upper classes in Christian North Africa, tracing that region's social and cultural history from the Punic times to the eve of the Islamic conquest. She demonstrates that during the period when Christianity was spreading to both city and countryside in North Africa, a convergence of economic interests narrowed the ga.
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