Slavery in the late Roman world, AD 275–475

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PART I The economy of slavery
Introduction
CONQUEST AND CAPITAL: THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN ROMAN HISTORY
"THE RICH MAN DANCES IN THE SAND!": THE MEDITERRANEAN ECONOMY IN THE LATE EMPIRE
RECOVERING THE LATE ROMAN SLAVE SYSTEM: EVIDENCE AND MODELS
THE END OF ANCIENT SLAVERY: FROM MODES OF PRODUCTION TO SUPPLY AND DEMAND
CHAPTER 1 Among Slave Systems: A Profile Of Late Roman Slavery
DEFINING SLAVERY AND SLAVE SOCIETIES
TOWARDS A CENSUS OF LATE ROMAN SLAVERY
LATE ROMAN SLAVERY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CHAPTER 2 The Endless River: The Supply and Trade of Slaves
STUDYING THE ROMAN SLAVE SUPPLY
REPRODUCTION AND REPLACEMENT OF THE SLAVE POPULATION
CANNIBALIZING THE MEDITERRANEAN: INTERNAL SOURCES OF THE SLAVE SUPPLY
TRANS-FRONTIER TRADING AND RAIDING: EXTERNAL SOURCES OF SLAVERY
THE SLAVE TRADE: MERCHANTS AND MARKETS
CHAPTER 3 Oikonomia: Households, Consumption, and Production
THE ECONOMY OF THE ROMAN HOUSEHOLD
UNSKILLED DOMESTIC LABOR
SKILLED LABOR AND HOUSEHOLD SLAVERY
TEXTILE PRODUCTION AND SLAVE LABOR
AGRICULTURAL LABOR AND SMALL SLAVE-OWNING HOUSEHOLDS
CONCLUSION: SLAVERY, HOUSEHOLDS, AND THE ROMAN ECONOMY
CHAPTER 4 Agricultural Slavery: Exchange, Institutions, Estates
THE PROBLEM OF ROMAN AGRICULTURAL SLAVERY
FROM SLAVERY TO SERFDOM? PROBLEMS WITH THE TRANSITION MODEL OF LABOR
EXCHANGE, INSTITUTIONS, ESTATES: THE LONG-TERM DYNAMICS OF SLAVE LABOR
SLAVE LABOR AND AGRICULTURAL ESTATES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
SLAVERY IN THE FOURTH-CENTURY WEST
SLAVES AND THE LAND IN THE WESTERN PROVINCES
CONCLUSIONS: RE-FRAMING THE END OF ROMAN SLAVERY
PART II The making of honorable society
Introduction
IN SEARCH OF MASTERS AND SLAVES
"AMELIORATION" AND CHRISTIANIZATION
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY: FRAMING THE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 5 Semper timere: the aims and techniques of domination
THE MASTER-SLAVE RELATIONSHIP
THE AIMS OF DOMINATION
THE TECHNIQUES OF DOMINATION
DOMINATION THROUGH POSITIVE INCENTIVES
CONCLUSIONS: DISCIPLINE, COMMODITIES, MARKETS
CHAPTER 6 Self, family, and community among slaves
FROM THE SLAVE'S PERSPECTIVE
INDIVIDUAL REACTIONS
THE SLAVE FAMILY
THE ROMAN SLAVE COMMUNITY
CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER 7 Sex, status, and social reproduction
SLAVERY AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
MARRIAGE AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
THE EFFECTS OF DISHONOR: THE EXPLOITATION OF SLAVES
FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC WOMEN: PROSTITUTION IN LATE ANTIQUITY
PACTS OF LUST: CONCUBINAGE IN LATE ANTIQUITY
CHRISTIANIZATION AND CHANGE
CHAPTER 8 Mastery and the making of honor
THE DOMUS FELIX IN LATE ANTIQUITY
HONOR AND STATUS IN THE LATE ROMAN WORLD
“CLOSELY-WATCHED HOUSEHOLDS”
CONCLUSION: MASTERY AND SPIRITUAL MISGIVINGS
PART III The imperial order
Introduction
AN ORDER IMPOSED
STATUS AS AN INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM
AN INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF SLAVE STATUS IN THE LATE EMPIRE
CHAPTER 9 Citizenship and civil conflict: slave status after the Antonine Constitution
ROMAN LAW BEYOND ROME
LEUKOPETRA: ROMAN LAW AND LOCAL CUSTOM
BACK TO THE CENTER: DIOCLETIAN'S RESCRIPTS
CHAPTER 10 The enslavement of Mediterranean bodies: child exposure and child sale
STARS, STRANGERS, AND SLAVES
THE JURIDICAL REGIME OF ENSLAVEMENT: BETWEEN LAW AND PRACTICE
SALE AND EXPOSURE IN THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE
NEW DIRECTIONS: CONSTANTINIAN CHANGE
TEN THOUSAND TEARS: THE SALE OF CHILDREN AFTER CONSTANTINE
EXPOSURE AND ENSLAVEMENT AFTER CONSTANTINE
CONCLUSION: ENSLAVEMENT AND THE STATE IN LATE ANTIQUITY
CHAPTER 11 The community of honor: the state and sexuality
“THE CHILD OF THE SLAVE-WOMAN”: A BRIEF HISTORY
THE COMMUNITY OF HONOR: QUID LICEAT, ET QUID HONESTUM SIT
FREE WOMEN, UNFREE MEN, AND THE STATE
WELL-ORDERED EXPLOITATION: FREE MEN, SLAVE-WOMEN
CONCUBINAGE AND ILLEGITIMACY AFTER CONSTANTINE
CONCLUSION: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES
CHAPTER 12 Rites of manumission, rights of the freed
THE LATE ANTIQUE EQUILIBRIUM: BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE
MANUMISSION IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE: FORMS AND EFFECTS
LATE ANTIQUE RITES: THE ALAPA AND MANUMISSIO IN ECCLESIA
THE DUTIES OF FREEDMEN
MANUMISSION IN THE CHURCH IN THE FIFTH CENTURY AND BEYOND
CONCLUSIONS: MANUMISSION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN LATE ANTIQUITY
After the fall: Roman slavery and the end of antiquity
SLAVERY AMIDST THE RUINS
THE END OF ROMAN SLAVERY IN THE WEST
THE END OF ROMAN SLAVERY IN THE EAST
CHURCH AND SLAVERY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
THE END OF THE PAST
Appendixes
APPENDIX 1 The word οỉĸέτης in late antiquity
APPENDIX 2 Slaves in the Codex Hermogenianus
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