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Historical overview -- Rural consumption in early imperial North Africa -- A late antique consumer revolution? -- Frustrated communities : the rise and fall of the self-governing village -- Bishops where no bishops should be : the phenomenon of the rural bishopric -- Preaching to peasants -- Reinterpreting rebellion : textual communities and the circumcellions.

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In honor of beloved Virgil

O degli altri poeti onore e lume...

Dante, Inferno

The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution to this book provided by the Classical Literature Endowment Fund of the University of California Press Foundation, which is supported by a major gift from Joan Palevsky.

The publisher also gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution to this book provided by Loyola University Chicago.

Peasant and Empire in
Christian North Africa

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE

Peter Brown, General Editor

I

Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity, by Sabine G. MacCormack

II

Synesius of Cyrene: Philosopher-Bishop, by Jay Alan Bregman

III

Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity, by Kenneth G. Holum

IV

John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late Fourth Century, by Robert L. Wilken

V

Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man, by Patricia Cox

VI

Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, by Philip Rousseau

VII

Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by A. P. Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein

VIII

Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul, by Raymond Van Dam

IX

Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition, by Robert Lamberton

X

Procopius and the Sixth Century, by Averil Cameron

XI

Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity, by Robert A. Kaster

XII

Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180275, by Kenneth Harl

XIII

Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, introduced and translated by Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey

XIV

Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection, by Carole Straw

XV

Apex Omnium: Religion in the Res gestae of Ammianus, by R. L. Rike

XVI

Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World, by Leslie S. B. MacCoull

XVII

On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity, by Michele Renee Salzman

XVIII

Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints, by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

XIX

Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, by Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long, with a contribution by Lee Sherry

XX

Basil of Caesarea, by Philip Rousseau

XXI

In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini, introduction, translation, and historical commentary by C. E. V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers

XXII

Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital, by Neil B. McLynn

XXIII

Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity, by Richard Lim

XXIV

The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy, by Virginia Burrus

XXV

Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontiuss Life and the Late Antique City, by Derek Krueger

XXVI

The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine, by Sabine MacCormack

XXVII

Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems, by Dennis E. Trout

XXVIII

The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran, by Elizabeth Key Fowden

XXIX

The Private Orations of Themistius, translated, annotated, and introduced by Robert J. Penella

XXX

The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity, by Georgia Frank

XXXI

Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity, edited by Tomas Hgg and Philip Rousseau

XXXII

Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium, by Glenn Peers

XXXIII

Wandering, Begging Monks: Social Order and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity, by Daniel Folger Caner

XXXIV

Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D., by Noel Lenski

XXXV

Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages, by Bonnie Effros

XXXVI

Quaayr Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria, by Garth Fowden

XXXVII

Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition, by Claudia Rapp

XXXVIII

Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity, by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony

XXXIX

There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire, by Michael Gaddis

XL

The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq, by Joel Thomas Walker

XLI

City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria, by Edward J. Watts

XLII

Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination, by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

XLIII

Man and the Word: The Orations of Himerius, edited by Robert J. Penella

XLIV

The Matter of the Gods, by Clifford Ando

XLV

The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran, by Matthew P. Canepa

XLVI

Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities, by Edward J. Watts

XLVII

Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa, by Leslie Dossey

Peasant and Empire in
Christian North Africa

Leslie Dossey

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