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Jeffrey A. Easton - Municipal Freedmen and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Roman Italy, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Municipal Freedmen and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Roman Italy

Av Jeffrey A. Easton

Del 21 i serien Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy

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This book challenges prevailing models of the ways formerly enslaved individuals in Ancient Rome navigated their social and economic landscape. Drawing on the rich epigraphic evidence left behind by municipal freedmen and freedwomen, who had been owned and manumitted by the communities of Roman Italy, it pushes back against ameliorating views of slavery as a temporary condition and positive notions of a prosperous and consciously proud Roman freedman class. Manumission was a far more complex process, and it did not always put former slaves and their descendants on the straight and narrow path of upward mobility.
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Jeffrey A. Easton, Ph.D. (2019), University of Toronto, is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Southwestern University. His research and publications focus on Latin epigraphy and social, economic, and political institutions in the Roman empire.

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"This is a very stimulating, well researched book which is based on a clear premise: municipal freedmen and their descendants were less successful than their private counterparts because they lacked patronal backing. [...] All in all, the treatment of the evidence is excellent, and the book reads very well: the argumentation is very clear." Pedro López Barja in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2024.08.16

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