Peculium, Freedom, Citizenship
Golden Triangle or Vicious Circle? An Act in Two Parts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10996318 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulrike Roth (California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | Supplement_109 |
| Pages | 91-120 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0076-0730 • E-ISSN: 2041-5370 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.2041-5370.2010.tb00103.x |
| OpenAlex | W2166821434 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
The importance of the slave's hope for freedom for the smooth running of the Roman slave system has long been recognised by modern scholarship. This hope was mirrored on the masters' side by what Thomas Wiedemann has called 'the ideal of regular manumission'. 1 But despite the recognition of both (servile) hope and (masterly) ideal, scholars are much less agreed on how realistic a prospect manumission actually was, and how manumission was typically achieved. In fact, little work has been carried out to comprehend the actual mechanisms inherent in the granting of liberty to Roman slaves. Much of the debate has been on 'numbers', in terms both of the ages of slaves at manumission and of the manumission rate. Notwithstanding the difficulty in assessing either, manumission is generally regarded -as Keith Bradley put it -'[...] a distinctive feature of the Roman slavery system [...]' 2 , not least because of the many epitaphs set up * It is a pleasure to thank Michael Crawford, Paul Du Plessis and Leonhard Schumacher for their comments on earlier drafts of this chapter. Special thanks go to John Richardson
Art · Citizenship · Economics · Political science · Sociology · Virtuous circle and vicious circle · Law · Linguistics and language evolution
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |