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BL
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641588
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Meals in the early Christian world : : social formation, experimentation, and conflict at the table /\ edited by Dennis E. Smith and Hal E. Taussig.
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xi, 315 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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9781137002884 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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: 1137002883 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and indexes.
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| Contents
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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 dining posture in early rabbinic literature / Jordan D. Rosenblum.
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Dinners and dining-- Religious aspects-- Christianity-- History.
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Dinners and dining-- Greece-- History.
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Dinners and dining-- Rome-- History.
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| Dewey Classification
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394.1/250938
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BR115.N87M43 2012
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| Added Entry
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Smith, Dennis E., (Dennis Edwin),1944-
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Taussig, Hal.
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