The formation of papal authority in late antique Italy : Roman bishops and the domestic sphere /
Sessa, Kristina.
New York ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: household management and the Bishop of Rome -- The late Roman household in Italy -- From dominion to dispensatio: stewardship as an elite ideal -- Primus cultor: episcopal householding in theory and practice -- Overseeing the overseer: bishops and the lay household -- Cultivating the clerical household: marriage, property, and inheritance -- Mistrusting the Bishop: succession, stewardship, and sex in the Laurentian schism -- The household and the Bishop: authority, competition, and cooperation in the gesta martyrum.
Popes
Home economics.
Households
Papacy