Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire

by: Brown, P.

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In three magisterial essays, Peter Brown, one of the world's foremost scholars of the society and culture of late antiquity, explores the emergence in late Roman society of "the poor" as a distinct social class, one for which the Christian church claimed a special responsibility. It is the story of how a society came to see itself as responsible for the care of a particular class of people -- a class that had not previously been cared for -- and of who benefited from that shift in interests. In his characteristically elegant and lucid prose, Brown seeks to recover the pre-Christian status of poor people, the actual nature of the relations between the Christian church and the poor, and the true motivations -- sometimes sincere, sometimes self-serving -- behind Christian rhetoric of love for the poor. He draws not only on the standard Greek and Latin sources for the later Roman Empire, but also on Jewish sources to document the interactions between Middle Eastern provincial societies and classical Roman traditions. Brown gracefully illuminates a crucial transition from classical to Christian culture: the emergence of a new understanding of what society -- and the Church -- owes to the poor that continues to resonate.

"Lover of the poor": the creation of a public virtue
"Governor of the poor": the bishops and their cities
"Condescension": poverty and solidarity in the eastern empire

Subjects:
284-476
Armen (personen)
Christianisme et politique Italie Rome Histoire
Christianity and politics
Christianity and politics Italy Rome History
Church and state
Church and state Italy Rome History
Church and state Rome History
Church work with the poor
Church work with the poor Rome History
Deprivatie
Église et État Italie Rome Histoire
Église et État Rome Histoire
History
Italy Rome
Pastorale des pauvres Rome Histoire
Pauvres Italie Rome Histoire
Pauvres Rome Histoire
Politics and government
Poor
Poor Italy Rome History
Poor Rome History
Rome (Empire)
Rome Politics and government 284-476
Rome Politique et gouvernement 284-476
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Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire

by: Brown, P.

• ISBN-13: 9781584651468 / 978-1-58465-146-8
• ISBN-03: 1584651466 / 1-58465-146-6
• University Press of New England, Hanover, 2002

Price: 15,60 EURO

1 copy in stock