Rulers, nomads, and Christians in Roman North Africa /

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Author / Creator:Shaw, Brent D.
Imprint:Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Variorum, 1995.
Description:1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Collected studies series ; CS497
Collected studies ; CS497.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2375360
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ISBN:0860784908 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Rural markets in North Africa and the political economy of the Roman Empire
  • The undecemprimi in Roman Africa
  • The structure of local society in the early Maghrib: the elders
  • The Elder Pliny's African geography
  • The formation of Africa Proconsularis
  • 'Eaters of flesh, drinkers of milk': the ancient Mediterranean ideology of the pastoral nomad
  • Fear and loathing: the nomad menace and Roman Africa
  • Autonomy and tribute: mountain and plain in Mauretania Tingitana
  • Soldiers and society: the army in Numidia
  • The elders of Christian Africa
  • African Christianity: disputes, definitions and 'Donatists'
  • Critical Bibliographical Addenda
  • Index