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Item Number: 117049
Title: The Formation of Papal Authority in Late Antique Italy : Roman Bishops and the Domestic Sphere
Author: Sessa, Kristina
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781107001060
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 23cm., hardcover, 338pp. Contents: Introduction: household management and the Bishop of Rome ; 1. The late Roman household in Italy ; 2. From dominion to dispensatio: stewardship as an elite ideal ; 3. Primus cultor: episcopal householding in theory and practice ; 4. Overseeing the overseer: bishops and the lay household ; 5. Cultivating the clerical household: marriage, property and inheritance ; 6. Mistrusting the bishop: succession, stewardship and sex in the Laurentian schism ; 7. The household and the bishop: authority, competition and cooperation in the gesta martyrum.

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