Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire
(Part of the The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures Series)
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In three magisterial essays, Peter Brown, one of the world's foremost scholars of the society and culture of late antiquity, explores the emergence in late Roman society of "the poor" as a distinct social class, one for which the Christian church claimed a special responsibility. It is the story of how a society came to see itself as responsible for the care of a particular class of people -- a class that had not previously been cared for -- and of...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1584651466
ISBN13:9781584651468
Release Date:November 2001
Publisher:Brandeis University Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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