Description
Explores how in late antiquity women, slaves, and children claimed agency in small-scale communities despite intimidation by the powerful.
About the Author
Kate Cooper is a Professor of History at Royal Holloway, 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 (2013), The Fall of the Roman Household (2007), and The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity (1996). Kate has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, an RCUK Global Uncertainties Fellowship, and a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. Jamie Wood is an Associate Professor in 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 (2012), A Companion to Isidore of Seville (co-edited with Andrew Fear, 2019), and Isidore of Seville and his Reception in the Early Middle Ages (co-edited with Andrew Fear, 2016). 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 currently writing a book about the Byzantine presence in the Iberian Peninsula in the sixth and seventh centuries.
Reviews
'... scholars with a robust background in late antiquity, early Christian monasticism, Church fathers, inter alia, will find much to appreciate in its pages.' Sarah Rollens, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
'Social Control in Late Antiquity offers a number of truly excellent and thought-provoking contributions to the still highly relevant project of studying the role of power relations in the formation of early Christian identity and institutions.' Kristina Sessa, Journal of Early Christian Studies
'[The book] is rich in content and covers an impressive variety of late antique authors and writings; the volume offers nuanced perspectives on violence and engages the modern sociological concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault. Fascinating to read are not only the discussions of lesser-known late antique writings but also the alternative perspectives on well-known Christian authors and their texts. With its broad range of topics related to the 'violence of small worlds', this book is highly relevant and warmly recommended for anyone interested in historical, sociological, educational, Christian-theological, and literary studies of late antiquity.' Christina M. Kreinecke, Augustiniana
Book Information
ISBN 9781108479394
Author Kate Cooper
Format Hardback
Page Count 348
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 720g
Dimensions(mm) 160mm * 235mm * 25mm