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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the settings of slaveholding and representations of slave experience in late antiquity. The essays, written by a diverse team of international scholars, scrutinize the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery alongside the status and living conditions of late antique slaves.
Table of ContentsI. Moral and Symbolic Values of Slavery: 1. Masters and slaves in early Christian discourse Peter J. J. Botha; 2. Slavery and religion in Late Antiquity: their relation to ascetism and justice in Christianity and Judaism Ilaria Ramelli; 3. (II) Legal freedom: Chris as liberator from satanic debt bondage in Greek literature of Late Antiquity Arkadiy Avdokhin; 4. Late Roman ideas of ethnicity and enslavement Maijastina Kahlos; II. Slavery, Cultural Discourses, and Identity: 5. Slavery in Euphemia and the Goth Chris L. De Wet; 6. What was Jewish slavery in Late Antiquity? Catherine Hezser; 7. Divining slavery in Late Ancient Egypt: doulology in the monastic works of Paul of Tamma and Shenoute Christine Luckritz Marquis; 8. Rural slavery in Late Roman Gaul: literary genres, theoretical frames and narratives Uiran Gebara da Silva; III. Slavery, Social History, and the Papyrological and Epigraphical Sources: 9. Slaves in the sixth century Palestine in the light of papyrological evidence Marja Vierros; 10. Child slaves in Roman Egypt: experiences from the papyri April Pudsey and Ville Vuolanto; 11. Late antique slavery in epigraphic evidence Mariana Bodnaruk; IV. Social and Religious Histories of Slavery on the Borders of the Empire and Beyond: 12. Slavery among the Visigoths Noel Lenski; 13. Sinner, slave, bishop, saint: the social and religious vicissitudes of St. Patrick Judith Evans Grubbs; 14. Slave boys in paradise? The Evidence of the Quary and its later exegetes Ilkka Lindstedt.
