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Freed Persons in the Roman World: Status, Diversity, and Representation

Freed Persons in the Roman World: Status, Diversity, and Representation

Freed Persons in the Roman World: Status, Diversity, and Representation

Freed Persons in the Roman World: Status, Diversity, and Representation

Overview

How were freed people represented in the Roman world? This volume presents new research about the integration of freed persons into Roman society. It addresses the challenge of studying Roman freed persons on the basis of highly fragmentary sources whose contents have been fundamentally shaped by the forces of domination. Even though freed persons were defined through a common legal status and shared the experience of enslavement and manumission, many different interactions could derive from these commonalities in different periods and localities across the empire. Drawing on literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, this book provides cases studies that test the various ways in which juridical categories and normative discourses shaped the social and cultural landscape in which freed people lived. By approaching the literary and epigraphic representations of freed persons in new ways, it nuances the impact of power asymmetries and social strategies on the cultural practices and lived experiences of freed persons.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781009438551
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 05/31/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 741,669
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Sinclair W. Bell is a Professor of Art History and Presidential Teaching Professor at Northern Illinois University. He previously served as Editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (2018-21) and, with Teresa Ramsby, edited Free at Last! The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire (London 2012).
Dorian Borbonus is a Professor in the History Department at the University of Dayton. His research focuses on the funerary culture of ancient Rome and in particular the phenomenon of organized collective burial.
Rose MacLean is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the cultural history of the Roman Empire, especially as it reflects interactions between the ruling elite and groups at the social and political margins.

Table of Contents

Introduction – Freed persons in the Roman world: status, diversity, and representation Sinclair W. Bell, Dorian Borbonus, and Rose Maclean; 1. Permissu decurionum: freed persons and burial management in the collective tomb of the Volusii Dorian Borbonus; 2. Freed public slaves in Roman Italy and the western provinces: legal status and social integration Franco Luciani; 3. Fitting in by decree: freed slaves, euergetism, and local politics Marc Kleijwegt; 4. Doubling up: patronal and familial designations on epitaphs Katharine Huemoeller; 5. The cost of ingratitude:freed persons, patrons, and re-enslavement Nicole Giannella; 6. Between moral slavery and legal freedom: freed people and aristocratic behavior in Neronian literature Fábio Duarte Joly; 7. Framing the freed person: (de)contextualizing the representation of freed peoples' voices in the literary record Kristof Vermote; 8. Novel evidence for ancient freed people: Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesiaca and the Cena trimalchionis William M. Owens; 9. The affects of manumission: racial melancholy and Roman freed persons Dan-El Padilla Peralta.
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