TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sessa,Kristina
TI  - The formation of papal authority in late antique Italy: Roman bishops and the domestic sphere 
SN  - 9781139190688
AV  - BX1805 .S47 2012eb
U1  - 262/.1309015 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Popes
KW  - Primacy
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Home economics
KW  - Households
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Papacy
KW  - History
KW  - To 1309
KW  - Économie domestique
KW  - Ménages (Statistique)
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Papauté
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Jusqu'à 1309
KW  - home economics
KW  - aat
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Church
KW  - Leadership
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Papst
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Haushalt
KW  - Herrschaft
KW  - Italy
KW  - Church history
KW  - Italie
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - Römer
KW  - Italien
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: household management and the Bishop of Rome -- The late Roman household in Italy -- From dominion to dispensatio: stewardship as an elite ideal -- Primus cultor: episcopal householding in theory and practice -- Overseeing the overseer: bishops and the lay household -- Cultivating the clerical household: marriage, property, and inheritance -- Mistrusting the Bishop: succession, stewardship, and sex in the Laurentian schism -- The household and the Bishop: authority, competition, and cooperation in the gesta martyrum
N2  - This book is the first cultural history of papal authority in late antiquity. While most traditional histories posit a 'rise of the papacy' and examine popes as politicians, theologians and civic leaders, Kristina Sessa focuses on the late Roman household and its critical role in the development of the Roman church from c.350-600. She argues that Rome's bishops adopted the ancient elite household as a model of good government for leading the church. Central to this phenomenon was the classical and biblical figure of the steward, the householder's appointed agent who oversaw his property and people. As stewards of God, Roman bishops endeavored to exercise moral and material influence within both the pope's own administration and the households of Italy's clergy and lay elites. This original and nuanced study charts their manifold interactions with late Roman households and shows how bishops used domestic knowledge as the basis for establishing their authority as Italy's singular religious leaders
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