Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa

Contenu

Dossey, Leslie. 2009. Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa. University of California Press, bibliographie, consulté le 3 avril 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/26678

Titre

Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa

Créateur

Dossey, Leslie Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Sujet

Antiquité Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

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.

Couverture spatiale

Berkeley

Editeur

University of California Press Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2010

Langue

eng

ISBN

978-0-520-94777-1

uri

https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520254398.001.0001

Dossey, Leslie. 2009. Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa. University of California Press, bibliographie, consulté le 3 avril 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/26678