Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman
Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman

Author: Matthew J. Perry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1107040310

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This book explores the institution of manumission-the freeing of slaves-in ancient Rome from a gendered perspective. Rome was unique among ancient polities in that it bestowed freed slaves with full citizenship, granting them rights nearly equal to those of freeborn individuals. The sexual identities of a female slave and a female citizen were fundamentally incompatible, as the former was principally defined by her sexual availability and the latter by her sexual integrity. Accordingly, those evaluating the manumission process needed to reconcile a woman's experiences as a slave with the expectations and moral rigor required of the female citizen.

Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy
Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy

Author: Cameron Hawkins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-07-19

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1107115442

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Vividly reconstructs economic conditions in ancient Roman cities and the socio-economic strategies of artisans who lived in them.

Paul's Declaration of Freedom from a Freed Slave's Perspective
Paul's Declaration of Freedom from a Freed Slave's Perspective

Author: Robin G. Thompson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-03-27

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9004532617

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This project attempts to listen to voices that have seldom been heard. While others have explored Paul’s theology of Christian freedom, they have not considered how Paul’s declaration of freedom would have been received by those who most desired and valued freedom: the slaves and freedpersons in the Galatian churches. In this study, Robin Thompson explores both Greek and Roman manumission, considers how the ancient Mediterranean world conceived of freedom, and then examines the freedom declared in Galatians from a freed slaves’s perspective. She proposes that these freedpersons would likely have perceived this freedom to be not only spiritual freedom, but—at least in the Christian communities—individual freedom as well.

Slavery in the Roman World
Slavery in the Roman World

Author: Sandra R. Joshel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-08-16

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0521535018

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A lively and comprehensive overview of Roman slavery, ideal for introductory-level students of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Freed Persons in the Roman World
Freed Persons in the Roman World

Author: Sinclair W. Bell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1009438530

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Provides case studies that approach historical evidence in new ways to reconstruct how freed people were integrated in Roman society.

Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome
Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome

Author: Sara Elise Phang

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-03-22

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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This book provides an invaluable introduction to the social, economic, and legal status of women in ancient Rome. Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome is an invaluable introduction to the lives of women in the late Roman Republic and first three centuries of the Roman Empire. Arranged chronologically and thematically, it examines how Roman women were born, educated, married, and active in economic, social, public, and religious life, as well as how they were commemorated and honored after death. Though they were excluded from formal public and military offices, wealthy Roman women participated in public life as benefactors and in religious life as priestesses. The book also acknowledges the status and occupations of women taking part in public life as textile producers, retail workers, and agricultural laborers, as well as enslaved women. The book provides a thorough introduction to the social history of women in the Roman world and gives students and aspiring scholars references to current scholarship and to primary literary and documentary sources, including collected sources in translation.

Slaving Zones
Slaving Zones

Author: Jeff Fynn-Paul

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-01-03

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9004356487

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Listen to podcast on “Slaving Zones, Contemporary Slavery and Citizenship: Reflections from the Brazilian Case”. In Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery, fourteen authors—including both world-leading and emerging historians of slavery—engage with the ‘Slaving Zones’ theory. This theory has recently taken the field of Mediterranean slavery studies by storm, and the challenge posed by the editors was to see if the ‘Slaving Zones’ theory could be applied in the wider context of long-term global history. The results of this experiment are promising. In the Introduction, Jeff Fynn-Paul points out over a dozen ways in which the contributors have added to the concept of ‘Slaving Zones’, helping to make it one of the more dynamic theories of global slavery since the advent of Orlando Patterson’s Slavery and Social Death.

The Biblical World of Gender
The Biblical World of Gender

Author: Celina Durgin

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-06-14

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1666720828

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What were the lives of women and men like in ancient Israel? How does it affect their thinking about gender? Recent discussions of "biblical womanhood and manhood" tend to reflect our current concepts of masculinity and femininity, and less so the lived world of the biblical authors. In fact, gender does not often appear to be a noteworthy issue in Scripture at all, except in practical matters. Nonetheless, Genesis 1 invests the image of God itself with "male and female," making sex central to what it means to be human. Instead of working out gender through Genesis's creation and Paul's household codes, we want to ask: What was life like on an ancient Israelite farmstead, in a Second Temple synagogue, or in a Roman household in Ephesus? Who ran things in the home, in the village, in the cities? Who had influence and social power, and how did they employ it? Taking insights from anthropology and archaeology, the authors of this collection paint a dynamic portrait of gender in antiquity that has been put into conversation with the biblical texts. The Biblical World of Gender explores gender "backstage" in the daily lives and assumptions of the biblical authors and "on-stage" in their writings.