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Title Poverty in the Roman world / edited by Margaret Atkins and Robin Osborne
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages)
Contents Introduction : Roman poverty in context / Robin Osborne -- The poor in the city of Rome / Neville Morley -- Stratification, deprivation and quality of life / Walter Scheidel -- "You do him no service" : an exploration of pagan almsgiving / Anneliese Parkin -- Writing poverty in Rome / Greg Woolf -- Poverty and population in Roman Egypt / Dominic Rathbone -- A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches : Ambrosiaster's quaestio 124 / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe -- Portraying the poor : descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the late Roman empire / Richard Finn -- Throwing parties for the poor : poverty and splendour in the late antique church / Lucy Grig -- Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul / Cam Grey -- Poverty and Roman law / Caroline Humfress
Summary What is poverty? What is to be done about it? These are difficult questions in any period. This book looks at how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty. It considers their political importance and how far the rise of Christianity affected their treatment
Analysis Roman world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Social problems -- Rome -- History
Poverty -- Rome -- History
Poverty -- Political aspects -- Rome
Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Rome
Poor -- Rome -- Social conditions
Poverty -- Rome
Poverty -- Religious aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
Poverty -- Religious aspects
Economic history
Poor -- Social conditions
Poverty
Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects
Poverty -- Political aspects
Social conditions
Social problems
Armut
Armoede.
Romeinse oudheid.
Sociale aspecten.
Economische aspecten.
SUBJECT Rome -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006770
Rome -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115102
Subject Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
Romeinse rijk.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Atkins, E. M. (E. Margaret)
Osborne, Robin, 1957-
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