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The formation of papal authority in late antique Italy [electronic resource] : Roman bishops and the domestic sphere / Kristina Sessa.

By: Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 323 p.) : mapISBN:
  • 9781139190688 (electronic bk.)
  • 1139190687 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Formation of papal authority in late antique Italy.DDC classification:
  • 262/.1309015 23
LOC classification:
  • BX1805 .S47 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: household management and the Bishop of Rome -- The late Roman household in Italy -- From dominion to dispensatio: stewardship as an elite ideal -- Primus cultor: episcopal householding in theory and practice -- Overseeing the overseer: bishops and the lay household -- Cultivating the clerical household: marriage, property, and inheritance -- Mistrusting the Bishop: succession, stewardship, and sex in the Laurentian schism -- The household and the Bishop: authority, competition, and cooperation in the gesta martyrum.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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