| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Ancient History |
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Routledge studies in ancient history.
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| Contents |
Varieties and commonalities -- Banishment and the church -- The authorities -- The enforcers -- The banished -- Life in banishment -- Return of the exile |
| Summary |
This book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment in the final era of a unified Roman Empire, 284-476 CE. Author Daniel Washburn argues that exile was both a penalty and a symbol. It applied to those who committed a misstep or crossed the wrong person; it also stood as a marker of affliction or failure. Like other punishments, it articulated and cemented the power asymmetry between the punisher and the punished. Distinctively, it maneuvered the body of the banished in order to tell that tale. The process of banishment also operated as a form of negotiation between the party |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Exile (Punishment) -- Rome -- History
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Exile (Punishment)
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115128
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136254239 |
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1136254234 |
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