Dossey, Leslie: Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa

Contents: Historical overview. The Making Of The Peasant Consumer. Rural consumption in early imperial North Africa. A late antique consumer revolution? The Struggle For Community. Frustrated communities: the rise and fall of the self-governing village. Bishops where no bishops should be: the phenomenon of the rural bishopric. Preaching And Rebellion. Preaching to peasants. Reinterpreting rebellion: textual communities and the circumcellions. Conclusion. Appendix: The Identifiable Rural Bishoprics. - Making use of detailed archaeological and textual evidence, Leslie Dossey examines the peasantry in relation to the upper classes in Christian North Africa, tracing that region's social and cultural history from the Punic times to the eve of the Islamic conquest. She demonstrates that during the period when Christianity was spreading to both city and countryside in North Africa, a convergence of economic interests narrowed the gap between the rustici and the urbani, creating a consumer revolution of sorts among the peasants. XIX,352 Seiten mit 13 Abb. und 13 Tab., Leinen (Transformation of the Classical Heritage; Vol. 47/University of California Press 2010) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use

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