Social mobility in late antique Gaul
Subtitle: strategies and opportunities for the non-elites
By: Allen E. Jones.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780521762397
Subjects: Social mobility -- Gaul -- History -- 5th century; Social mobility -- Gaul -- History -- 6th century; Social classes -- Gaul -- History -- 5th century; Social classes -- Gaul -- History -- 6th century; Social structure -- Gaul -- History -- 5th century; Social structure -- Gaul -- History -- 6th century; Gaul -- Social conditions -- 5th century; Gaul -- Social conditions -- 6th century; Gaul -- Religious life and customs -- 5th century; Gaul -- Religious life and customs -- 6th century
Description: In this work, Allen Jones explores the situation of the non-elite living in Gaul during the late fifth and sixth centuries. Drawing especially on evidence from Gregory of Tours's writings, he formulates a social model based on people of all ranks who were acting in ways that were socially advantageous to them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Barbarian Gaul; title: Evidence and control; title: Social structure I : hierarchy, mobility and aristocracies; title: Social structure II : free and servile ranks; title: The passive poor : prisoners; title: The active poor : pauperes at church; title: Healing and authority I : physicians; title: Healing and authority II : enchanters.