The formation of papal authority in late antique Italy
Subtitle: Roman bishops and the domestic sphere
By: Kristina Sessa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781107001060
Subjects: Home economics; Popes; Papacy; Christianity; Households; Church history; History of doctrines; Primacy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: household management and the Bishop of Rome; title: The late Roman household in Italy; title: From dominion to dispensatio: stewardship as an elite ideal; title: Primus cultor: episcopal householding in theory and practice; title: Overseeing the overseer: bishops and the lay household; title: Cultivating the clerical household: marriage, property, and inheritance; title: Mistrusting the Bishop: succession, stewardship, and sex in the Laurentian schism; title: The household and the Bishop: authority, competition, and cooperation in the gesta martyrum.