Meals in the early Christian world : social formation, experimentation, and conflict at the table / edited by Dennis E. Smith and Hal E. Taussig.
Contributor(s): Smith, Dennis E. (Dennis Edwin)
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TextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781137002884 (alk. paper); 1137002883 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Dinners and dining -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History | Dinners and dining -- Greece -- History | Dinners and dining -- Rome -- HistoryDDC classification: 394.1/250938 LOC classification: BR115.N87 | M43 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-295) and indexes.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-295) and indexes.
Introduction / Hal E. Taussig -- A typology of the communal meal / Matthias Klinghardt -- The Greco-Roman banquet as a social institution / Dennis E. Smith -- What kinds of meals did Julia Felix have? : a case study of the archeology of the banquet / Carolyn Osiek -- Social and political characteristics of Greco-Roman association meals / Richard S. Ascough -- Banqueting values in the associations : rhetoric and reality / Philip A. Harland -- Women in early Christian meal gatherings : discourse and reality / Angela Standhartinger -- Remembering and remembered women in Greco-Roman meals / Ellen Bradshaw Aitken -- Present and absent : women at Greco-Roman wedding meals / Susan Marks -- Evidence for slaves at the table in the ancient Mediterranean : from traditional rural festivals to urban associations / Nancy A. Evans --
The sex trade and slavery at meals / Carly Daniel-Hughes -- The Saturnalia in Greco-Roman culture / Angela Standhartinger -- Early Christian meals and slavery / Lillian I. Larsen -- Slaves at Greco-Roman banquets : a response / Jennifer A. Glancy -- Bodies in motion, bodies at rest : status, corporeality, and the negotiation of power at ancient meals / Carly Daniel-Hughes -- Temptations of the table : Christians respond to reclining culture / Jennifer A. Glancy -- A Valentinian response to the culture of reclining / Ellen Bradshaw Aitken -- Monastic meals : resisting a reclining culture / Lillian I. Larsen -- Inclined to decline reclining? : women, corporeality, and diving posture in early rabbinic literature / Jordan D. Rosenblum.