Hierarchy and equality in Late Antiquity. Subverting power relations in the Later Roman Empire. Ghent University
Although the Later Roman Empire (ca 300-650) was highly stratified, scholars have rarely asked how this impacted on social interactions and what the impact was of ideas of equality on social hierarchies. This project fills this lacuna, by introducing a new method, sources and topics. It combines discourse-analysis of philosophical and theological reflections about hierarchy and equaliyty with an analysis, inspired by practice theory, of a set ...