Brent Shaw

doi:10.1017/9781108932981.012

Chapter 11 - Brent Shaw

An Intellectual Profile

from Part II - Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 August 2021

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The chapter is a brief attempt to follow the development of Brent Shaw’s work from his first, splendidly iconoclastic revision of the role of pastoral nomadism in Roman North Africa and in the ancient world in general (from 1981 onward) to his recent pair of crowning masterpieces, both published in 2013 – the first, on religious violence in Roman North Africa in the time of Augustine; the second, on harvesting in the ancient world. In between, I have tried to do justice to the breadth and coherence of his principal concerns for major themes of ancient history – for the nature of power and of resistance to power, for the structures of the family, for the nature of the Roman economy, and for the mobilization of opinion (largely of hatred) in the interconfessional conflicts of the later empire.

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bandits camels Donatists epigraphy harvesting hydraulics martyrdom pastoralism religious violence Stoicism

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Information: Empire and Religion in the Roman World , pp. 241 - 251

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108932981.012 [Opens in a new window]

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