Late Antiquity
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Table of contents :
Introduction i
The "Wellborn" Few 3
Person and Group in Judaism and Early Christianity 17
Church and Leadership 33
The Challenge of the Desert si
East and West: The New Marital Morality 61
Notes 79
Bibliography B
1
Acknowledgments 85
Index S7
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Late Antiquity
at the start of a sacrifice. Behind the emperor an old man stands for the Senate. Temple of Jupiter Capitoline, god of state (Rome, Museum of the Conservators.)
Marcus Aurehus offering incense In the
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Late Antiquity Peter
Brown
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England 1998
BR BR
DG78 .B7413 1998
Copyright
©
1987 by the President and Fellows
of Harvard College All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America Originally published
as
"Antiquite tardive" in Histoire de
la
vie Privee,
De {'Empire romain a Van mil, © Editions du Seuil, 1985, translated by Arthur Goldhammer as A History of Private Life, vol. I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium,
vol.
I,
Harvard University
Press, 1987.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Brown, Peter Robert Lamont. [Antiquite tardive.
English]
Late antiquity / Peter Brown,
cm.
p.
"Originally published privee, vol.
©
1985"
—
1,
De
T.p.
as 'L' antiquite tardive* in
Histoire de
la
vie
l'Empire romain a l'an mil, Editions du Seuil,
verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1.
3. I.
0-674-51170-0 (pbk.)
Rome — Civilization. Rome Social life and
—
2.
Byzantine Empire
—
—527—1081.
Civilization
customs.
Title.
DG7413
937— DC2I
1998
97-42973
Contents
Introduction
i
The "Wellborn" Few
3
Person and Group in Judaism and Early Christianity
17
Church and Leadership
33
The Challenge of the Desert
si
East
and West: The
New
Marital Morality
61
Notes
79
Bibliography
B
Acknowledgments
85
Index
S7
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