Poverty in the Roman world / edited by Margaret Atkins and Robin Osborne.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : Roman poverty in context / Robin Osborne
- 2. The poor in the city of Rome / Neville Morley
- 3. Stratification, deprivation and quality of life / Walter Scheidel
- 4. 'You do him no service' : an exploration of pagan almsgiving / Anneliese Parkin
- 5. Writing poverty in Rome / Greg Woolf
- 6. Poverty and population in Roman Egypt / Dominic Rathbone
- 7. A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches : Ambrosiaster's quaestio 124 / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
- 8. Portraying the poor : descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the late Roman empire / Richard Finn
- 9. Thowing parties for the poor : poverty and splendour in the late antique church / Lucy Grig
- 10. Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul / Cam Grey
- 11. Poverty and Roman law / Caroline Humfress.
