Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire - Paperback
by Peter Brown
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter BrownSeries:Menahem Stern Jerusalem LecturesPublish date:11/1/2001Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Brandeis University PressISBN-13:9781584651468ISBN-10:1584651466UPC:9781584651468Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AncientSize:8.53 x 5.54 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SC70M4WXFB
Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire
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...
Series: Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
Language:EnglishPublisher:Brandeis University PressISBN-13:9781584651468ISBN-10:1584651466UPC:9781584651468Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AncientSize:8.53 x 5.54 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SC70M4WXFB
PETER BURKE is professor emeritus, Cambridge University, and a noted historian of the early modern era. He specializes in the relevance of social and cultural history to modern issues.
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
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