Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul

Grey, Cam

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“…Bacaudae, or Bagaudae, is the term used to describe participants in peasant revolts, although some of the better off also joined in. Grey (2006) is skeptical about Salvian's claims and argues that his motive was to criticize the unchristian profligacy and corruption of the rich. However, Mazzarino (1966: 65) attributed similar accounts of peasants joining the barbarians to the fifth-century commentator Zosimus.…”

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The Neglected Role of Inequality in Explanations of the Collapse of Ancient States

Levitt¹

2019

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Despite recent and past research into the collapse of ancient states and into ancient inequality, the possible role of inequality in collapse has been ignored. Inequality as a potential explanatory factor in civil war and collapse in modern states has been the subject of around 150 flawed regression analyses, from which no consensus has emerged. Data for ancient states is insufficient to enable such quantitative modelling. But case studies of the Egyptian Old Kingdom, the Western Roman Empire and the Classic Maya suggest some role for inequality, although the data is sparse and contentious. Paucity of data probably reflects lack of interest and a recent study (Kohler and Ellyson 2018) shows what can be achieved.

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The Neglected Role of Inequality in Explanations of the Collapse of Ancient States

Levitt¹

2019

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“…On Salvian's approach versus Augustine's: O'Donnell, 1983. 11 For recent work on Salvian's discussion of patronage, tenancy, and the colonate seeGrey, 2006, and Goffart, 2009. 12 For private baths open to a larger public:Maréchal, 2016. …”

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Late Roman «villae» and the «rus»: Interrogating Rural Interdependencies in the Ebro River Valley (Navarra, Spain)

Beckmann

2024

Cuadernos de Arqueología

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The last century of archaeological exploration has brought to light many late antique villae (mid-3rd – early-5th centuries CE), and much has been made of the ways these sites visually reinforce the increasingly fraught patron-client relations that characterize the late antique world in scholarship. My paper challenges these assumptions, using material evidence to illustrate a more complex, symbiotic relationship between late antique villae and the rus. The late Roman countryside was stratified, but to presume an especially oppressive relationship between estates and rural populations is to perpetuate synthesis of this period as synonymous with decline, and to disregard more nuanced evidence in the archaeological record. I discuss cult structures on three estates in the Ebro River Valley in ancient Tarraconensis (Spain) to argue that villae courted and catered to sub-elite rural population groups, who were themselves receptive to such offerings. By highlighting these interdependencies, this paper aims to bring greater contour to our understanding of the mechanisms animating the provincial countryside in late antiquity.

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Bondage by contract in the late Roman empire

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2018

International Review of Law and Economics

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Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul

Cited by 6 publications

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The Neglected Role of Inequality in Explanations of the Collapse of Ancient States

The Neglected Role of Inequality in Explanations of the Collapse of Ancient States

Late Roman «villae» and the «rus»: Interrogating Rural Interdependencies in the Ebro River Valley (Navarra, Spain)

Bondage by contract in the late Roman empire

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