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Poverty in the Roman world / edited by Margaret Atkins and Robin Osborne

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages)
Additional Creators
Atkins, E. M. (E. Margaret) and Osborne, Robin, 1957-
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English.
Contents
Introduction : Roman poverty in context / Robin Osborne -- The poor in the city of Rome / Neville Morley -- Stratification, deprivation and quality of life / Walter Scheidel -- "You do him no service" : an exploration of pagan almsgiving / Anneliese Parkin -- Writing poverty in Rome / Greg Woolf -- Poverty and population in Roman Egypt / Dominic Rathbone -- A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches : Ambrosiaster's quaestio 124 / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe -- Portraying the poor : descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the late Roman empire / Richard Finn -- Throwing parties for the poor : poverty and splendour in the late antique church / Lucy Grig -- Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul / Cam Grey -- Poverty and Roman law / Caroline Humfress.
Summary
What is poverty? What is to be done about it? These are difficult questions in any period. This book looks at how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty. It considers their political importance and how far the rise of Christianity affected their treatment.
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ISBN
0511246285 (electronic bk.)
9780511246289 (electronic bk.)
9780511246951 (electronic bk.)
0511246951 (electronic bk.)
0511245556
9780511245558
9780511482700 (ebook)
0511482701 (ebook)
0521862116 (Cloth)
0511244800
9780521862110 (hbk.)
1107168554
9781107168558
1280703628
9781280703621
9780511244803
0511318820
9780511318825
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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