Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Roman poverty in context / Robin Osborne
  • The poor in the city of Rome / Neville Morley
  • Stratification, deprivation and quality of life / Walter Scheidel
  • "You do him no service" : an exploration of pagan almsgiving / Anneliese Parkin
  • Writing poverty in Rome / Greg Woolf
  • Poverty and population in Roman Egypt / Dominic Rathbone
  • A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches : Ambrosiaster's quaestio 124 / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
  • Portraying the poor : descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the late Roman empire / Richard Finn
  • Throwing parties for the poor : poverty and splendour in the late antique church / Lucy Grig
  • Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul / Cam Grey
  • Poverty and Roman law / Caroline Humfress.