Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150–700 CE - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-vii

Tables

pp viii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

A Note on Abbreviations and Sources Used

pp xv-xx

Introduction - Late Antique Studies and the New Polyphony for Slave Studies

pp 1-12

Part I - Moral and Symbolic Values of Slavery

pp 13-104

1 - Masters and Slaves in Early Christian Discourse

pp 15-42

2 - Slavery and Religion in Late Antiquity

pp 43-65

3 - (Il)Legal Freedom: Christ as Liberator from Satanic Debt Bondage in Greek Homilies and Hymns of Late Antiquity

pp 66-86

4 - Late Roman Ideas of Ethnicity and Enslavement

pp 87-104

Part II - Slavery, Cultural Discourses, and Identity

pp 105-188

5 - Slavery in Euphemia and the Goth

pp 107-128

6 - What Was Jewish about Jewish Slavery in Late Antiquity?

pp 129-148

7 - Divining Slavery in Late Ancient Egypt: Doulology in the Monastic Works of Paul of Tamma and Shenoute

pp 149-169

8 - Rural Slavery in Late Roman Gaul: Literary Genres, Theoretical Frames, and Narratives

pp 170-188

Part III - Slavery, Social History, and the Papyrological and Epigraphical Sources

pp 189-248

9 - Slaves in Sixth-Century Palestine in the Light of Papyrological Evidence

pp 191-209

10 - Enslaved Children in Roman Egypt: Experiences from the Papyri

pp 210-223

11 - Late Antique Slavery in Epigraphic Evidence

pp 224-248

Part IV - Social and Religious Histories of Slavery on the Borders of the Empire and Beyond

pp 249-315

12 - Slavery among the Visigoths

pp 251-280

13 - Sinner, Slave, Bishop, Saint: The Social and Religious Vicissitudes of St Patrick

pp 281-297

14 - Slave Boys in Paradise? The Text of the Quran and Its Later Exegetes

pp 298-315

Bibliography

pp 316-354

Index

pp 355-360