Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa
By: Leslie Dossey
Series: The transformation of the classical heritage -- 47; Transformation of the classical heritage -- 47.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780520254398
Subjects: Peasants; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical overview; title: Rural consumption in early imperial North Africa; title: A late antique consumer revolution?; title: Frustrated communities : the rise and fall of the self-governing village; title: Bishops where no bishops should be : the phenomenon of the rural bishopric; title: Preaching to peasants; title: Reinterpreting rebellion : textual communities and the circumcellions.