Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa

Titre: Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa
Auteur: Dossey, Leslie
Date: 2010
Résumé: This remarkable history foregrounds the most marginal sector of the Roman population, the provincial peasantry, to paint a fascinating new picture of peasant society. Making use of detailed archaeological and textual evidence, Leslie Dossey examines the peasantry in relation to the upper classes in Christian North Africa, tracing that region's social and cultural history from the Punic times to the eve of the Islamic conquest. She demonstrates that during the period when Christianity was spreading to both city and countryside in North Africa, a convergence of economic interests narrowed the ga.
Editeur: University of California Press
Place: Berkeley
Sujet: Antiquité
Langue: eng
ISBN: 978-0-520-94777-1
uri: https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520254398.001.0001

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