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The Fall of the Roman Household

by Kate Cooper

  • Paperback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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Edward Gibbon laid the fall of the Roman Empire at Christianity's door, suggesting that 'pusillanimous youth preferred the penance of the monastic to the dangers of a military life ...whole legions were buried in these religious sanctuaries'. This surprising 2007 study suggests that, far from seeing Christianity as the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire, we should understand the Christianisation of the household as a central Roman survival strategy. By establishing new 'ground rules' for marriage and family life, the Roman Christians of the last century of the Western empire found a way to re-invent the Roman family as a social institution to weather the political, military, and social upheaval of two centuries of invasion and civil war. In doing so, these men and women - both clergy and lay - found themselves changing both what it meant to be Roman, and what it meant to be Christian.
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  • Author

    Kate Cooper

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    March 2011

  • Weight

    450g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521187930

  • ISBN-10

    0521187931

  • Eden Code

    3824972

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