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1 online resource (xvi, 319 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-308) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Epigraph -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 'The battle of this life' -- Against luxury: Commodian -- The miles Christi as a devotional model for christian women -- Fathers and sons -- Miles Christi and miles saeculi -- Poverty, obligation, and inheritance: traditionalist senatorial Christianity during and after the barbarian invasions -- Ad Gregoriam in Palatio: the senatorial domina as miles Christi -- The domina at the gate -- Chapter 2 'The obscurity of eloquence' -- The 'jewelled style' and the Cento of Proba -- Prudentius -- The Aristocratic Laity and the 'Ostrogothic renaissance' -- Boethius, Cassiodorus, Benedict, Gregory -- Christian prose and the 'jewelled style' -- Chapter 3 Household and empire -- The structure of the late Roman estate -- Domus and familia -- The domina as female paterfamilias -- Obligation and reciprocity: the Bobbio domina -- Slaves and masters: Ad Gregoriam in Palatio -- Gregoria and Reginus: Spielregeln for a Christian Aristocracy? -- The coming Judgement -- Chapter 4 'Such trustful partnership': the marriage bond in Latin conduct literature -- Roman marriage in late antiquity -- From Diocletian to Justinian: the changing balance of power in the late Roman household -- The early Christian legacy -- Augustine, Pelagius, and the Latin readers of John Chrysostom -- Celanthia and Optatus: the permanence of the marriage bond -- Ad Gregoriam in Palatio and Augustinian mediocritas -- Chapter 5 The invisible enemy -- The paradox of invisible powers in early patristic tradition: Tertullian and Cyprian -- Origen and Ambrose -- Imitatio -- The late fourth-century sources -- Arnobius the Younger -- The raiment of mortal flesh -- Appendix. Ad Gregoriam in palatio -- Chapter 1. That the human race is to be allowed to be tested for a time, so that it may rejoice forever in the future -- Chapter 2. The nobility of the soul is to be defended -- Chapter 3. It is through endurance (patientiam) that all virtues are able to exist -- Chapter 4. What kind of thing in particular is endurance -- Chapter 5. That the kind of person who disdained the virtue of patience in time of peace is not likely to bear the persecutions of martyrdom successfully -- Chapter 6. Excepting by the will of God, the wife should not despise the will of the husband in any matter -- Chapter 7. With respect to what duties and by what judgements a true wife is to be judged -- Chapter 8. By compliance husbands can be won over by wives, and can be called out to the grace of the Holy Spirit from the traffic of the flesh -- Chapter 9. It is better to teach the things to be avoided rather than those to be set aright [after the wrong is done] -- Chapter 10. A viewing-tower is set up in contemplation, ascending which the soul turns its attention either to those winning or to those losing, in order to imitate them -- Chapter 11. The battle of truth against falsehood -- Chapter 12. The fight of liberality (benignitas) against avarice -- Chapter 13. The battle of faithlessness in support of avarice against the despiser of the world (contemptorem mundi) -- Chapter 14. The battle of abstinence against gluttony -- Chapter 15. Against desire of the flesh [concupiscentia] -- Chapter 16. Of endurance -- Chapter 17. That a woman placed in marriage should search the will of God through His law, and keep the commandments ... -- Chapter 18. A respectable Christian married woman must be so he. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Families -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Families -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Families -- Rome.
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
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Rome -- Religion.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Religion. |
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Rome -- Civilization -- Christian influences.
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Civilization. |
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30 B.C.-476 A.D |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cooper, Kate, 1960- Fall of the Roman household. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521884600 0521884608 (DLC) 2008272821 (OCoLC)173499093 |
| ISBN |
9780511394607 (electronic book) |
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0511394608 (electronic book) |
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0511393954 (electronic book) |
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9780511393952 (electronic book) |
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9780521884600 (hardback) |
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0521884608 (hardback) |
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