Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Roman poverty in context
- Chapter 2 The poor in the city of Rome
- Chapter 3 Stratification, deprivation and quality of life
- Chapter 4 ‘You do him no service’: an exploration of pagan almsgiving
- Chapter 5 Writing poverty in Rome
- Chapter 6 Poverty and population in Roman Egypt
- Chapter 7 A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches: Ambrosiaster's quaestio 124
- Chapter 8 Portraying the poor: descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the late Roman empire
- Chapter 9 Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique church
- Chapter 10 Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul
- Chapter 11 Poverty and Roman law
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Roman poverty in context
- Chapter 2 The poor in the city of Rome
- Chapter 3 Stratification, deprivation and quality of life
- Chapter 4 ‘You do him no service’: an exploration of pagan almsgiving
- Chapter 5 Writing poverty in Rome
- Chapter 6 Poverty and population in Roman Egypt
- Chapter 7 A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches: Ambrosiaster's quaestio 124
- Chapter 8 Portraying the poor: descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the late Roman empire
- Chapter 9 Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique church
- Chapter 10 Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul
- Chapter 11 Poverty and Roman law
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Poverty in the Roman World , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006