Allen E. Jones

Social Mobility in Late Antique Gaul

Strategies and Opportunities for the Non-Elite

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the situation of the non-elite living in Gaul during the late fifth and sixth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 787g
• ISBN-13: 9780521762397
• ISBN-10: 0521762391
• Artikelnr.: 26103685

Autorenporträt

Allen Jones is Associate Professor of History at Troy University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Barbarian Gaul
2. Evidence and control
3. Social structure I: hierarchy, mobility and aristocracies
4. Social structure II: free and servile ranks
5. The passive poor: prisoners
6. The active poor: pauperes at church
7. Healing and authority I: physicians
8. Healing and authority II: enchanters
9. Conclusion.