Freed persons in the Roman world : status, diversity, and representation / edited by Sinclair W. Bell, Northern Illinois University, Dorian Borbonus, University of Dayton, Rose MacLean, University of California, Santa Barbara.

"Drawing on literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, this book provides cases studies that test the various ways in which juridical categories and normative discourses shaped the social and cultural landscape in which freed people lived. It addresses the challenge of studying Roman fr...

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