Kristina Sessa

The Formation of Papal Authority in Late Antique Italy

Roman Bishops and the Domestic Sphere

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Produktbeschreibung

The first cultural history of papal authority in late antiquity, providing a new interpretation of the Roman church and its bishops.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781107423480
• ISBN-10: 1107423481
• Artikelnr.: 40697442

Autorenporträt

Kristina Sessa is Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director for the Center of the Study of Religion at Ohio State University. She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Rome in 2001 and a Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University in 2006-7. She is the author of several articles on bishops, Christianity and the domestic sphere and edited a special volume of the Journal of Early Christian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: household management and the Bishop of Rome
1. The late Roman household in Italy
2. From dominion to dispensatio: stewardship as an elite ideal
3. Primus cultor: episcopal householding in theory and practice
4. Overseeing the overseer: bishops and the lay household
5. Cultivating the clerical household: marriage, property and inheritance
6. Mistrusting the bishop: succession, stewardship and sex in the Laurentian schism
7. The household and the bishop: authority, competition and cooperation in the gesta martyrum
Conclusions.