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Chapter 11 - Brent Shaw

An Intellectual Profile

from Part II - Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2021

By
Peter Brown
Edited by
Harriet I. Flower
Harriet I. Flower
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Princeton University, New Jersey
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Summary

The chapter is a brief attempt to follow the development of Brent Shaw’s work from his first, splendidly iconoclastic revision of the role of pastoral nomadism in Roman North Africa and in the ancient world in general (from 1981 onward) to his recent pair of crowning masterpieces, both published in 2013 – the first, on religious violence in Roman North Africa in the time of Augustine; the second, on harvesting in the ancient world. In between, I have tried to do justice to the breadth and coherence of his principal concerns for major themes of ancient history – for the nature of power and of resistance to power, for the structures of the family, for the nature of the Roman economy, and for the mobilization of opinion (largely of hatred) in the interconfessional conflicts of the later empire.

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banditscamelsDonatistsepigraphyharvestinghydraulicsmartyrdompastoralismreligious violenceStoicism
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Empire and Religion in the Roman World , pp. 241 - 251
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Shaw, B (1982–1983) “‘Eaters of Flesh, Drinkers of Milk’: The Ancient Mediterranean Ideology of the Pastoral Nomad,” Ancient Society 13–14: 5–31; now in Shaw 1995b: no. VI.Google Scholar
Shaw, B (1984a) “Bandits in the Roman Empire,” Past & Present 105: 3–52.Google Scholar
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  • Brent Shaw
  • Edited by Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book: Empire and Religion in the Roman World
  • Online publication: 26 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108932981.012
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  • Brent Shaw
  • Edited by Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book: Empire and Religion in the Roman World
  • Online publication: 26 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108932981.012
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  • Brent Shaw
  • Edited by Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book: Empire and Religion in the Roman World
  • Online publication: 26 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108932981.012
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