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The Material Lives of Roman Slaves is a major contribution to scholarly debates on the archaeology of Roman slavery. Rather than regarding slaves as irretrievable in archaeological remains, the book takes the archaeological record as a key form of evidence for reconstructing slaves' lives and experiences. Interweaving literature, law, and material evidence, the book searches for ways to see slaves in the various contexts - to make them visible where evidence tells us they were in fact present. Part of this project involves understanding how slaves seem irretrievable in the archaeological record and how they are often actively, if unwittingly, left out of guidebooks and scholarly literature. Individual chapters explore the dichotomy between visibility and invisibility and between appearance and disappearance in four physical and social locations - urban houses, city streets and neighborhoods, workshops, and villas.

Slaves --- Social archaeology --- Social conditions --- Rome --- Antiquities --- Social archaeology. --- Social conditions. --- Antiquities. --- Esclaves --- Archéologie sociale. --- Conditions sociales --- Archéologie sociale --- Antiquités --- Conditions sociales. --- Histoire. --- Slaves - Rome - Social conditions --- Rome - Antiquities --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- Archaeology --- Methodology --- Archéologie sociale.

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Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman examines the distinct problem posed by the manumission of female slaves in ancient Rome. The sexual identities of a female slave and a female citizen were fundamentally incompatible, as the former was principally defined by her sexual availability and the latter by her sexual integrity. Accordingly, those evaluating the manumission process needed to reconcile a woman's experiences as a slave with the expectations and moral rigor required of the female citizen. The figure of the freedwoman - fictionalized and real - provides an extraordinary lens into the matter of how Romans understood, debated, and experienced the sheer magnitude of the transition from slave to citizen, the various social factors that impinged upon this process, and the community stakes in the institution of manumission.

Women slaves --- Slaves --- History --- Emancipation --- Rome --- Social conditions --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Femmes esclaves --- Esclaves --- Histoire --- Émancipation --- Conditions sociales --- Histoire. --- Conditions sociales. --- Women slaves - Rome - History --- Slaves - Emancipation - Rome - History --- Rome - Social conditions --- Rome - History --- Arts and Humanities --- Enslaved women --- Enslaved persons --- Émancipation

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This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how Roman writers turn to paradigmatic modes of dependency familiar from everyday life - not just slavery but also clientage and childhood - in order to describe their authority over, and responsibilities to, the subject population of the provinces. It traces the relative importance of these different models for the imperial project across almost three centuries of Latin literature, from the middle of the first century BCE to the beginning of the third century CE.

Latin literature --- Slavery in literature. --- Slavery --- Imperialism in literature. --- Slaves --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Language and culture --- Littérature latine --- Esclavage dans la littérature --- Esclavage --- Impérialisme dans la littérature --- Esclaves --- Elite (Sciences sociales) --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Langage et culture --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Rome --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Slavery in literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Latin language --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- History and criticism --- Political aspects --- Littérature latine --- Esclavage dans la littérature --- Impérialisme dans la littérature --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Latin literature - History and criticism --- Slaves - Rome --- Elite (Social sciences) - Rome --- Latin language - Political aspects - Rome --- Language and culture - Rome --- Rome - Politics and government - 30 B.C.-476 A.D. --- Enslaved persons --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- History.

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La principale distinction relative au droit des personnes est que tous les hommes sont soit libres soit esclaves (Institutes, I, 9). Gaius souligne ainsi la place fondamentale de l’esclavage dans la Rome impériale. La barrière de la liberté était si structurante et le recours au travail servile pratiqué à une telle échelle, que la société romaine mérite assurément le qualificatif d’esclavagiste. Certes, la condition servile était inférieure, mais la concevoir en terme de barrière ou de strate horizontale, séparant les esclaves et les libres, se révèle insuffisant. Dans une population servile à la hiérarchie très marquée, la condition personnelle des esclaves dépendait beaucoup des relations verticales, qui unissaient chacun d’entre eux à leur maître. Tel est le sujet de ce livre collectif. L’examen prioritaire de la documentation épigraphique vise à en restituer la complexité. Il fait place à des serviteurs, à des domesticités et à des maîtres d’une grande diversité, dans différentes régions de l’Empire. Les grandes étapes de la vie des hommes et des femmes réduits en esclavage (l’enfance, la mort, en passant parfois par l’affranchissement) sont prises en compte. C’est aussi dans ses multiples dimensions, du droit aux affects, que la relation entre esclaves et maîtres se trouve mise en lumière.

Slaves --- Slavery --- Inscriptions, Latin --- Esclaves --- Esclavage --- History --- Law and legislation --- Sources. --- Droit romain. --- Slavery (Roman law) --- Social classes --- Social conditions --- Inscriptions, Latin. --- Slavery. --- Social classes. --- Social conditions. --- Inschrift --- Sklaverei --- Rome --- Rome (Empire) --- Römisches Reich --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Roman law --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Latin inscriptions --- Latin language --- Latin philology --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Sklave --- Unfreiheit --- Epigraph --- Inschriften --- Epigraf --- Schriftdenkmal --- Epigraphik --- Condition of slaves --- Imperium Romanum --- Reich Rom --- Italien --- Antike --- Römerzeit --- Römer --- v753-500 --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic --- Romi (Empire) --- Italy --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Geschichte 753 v. Chr.-500 --- Slavery - Rome - History - Sources - Congresses --- Inscriptions, Latin - Congresses --- Slaves - Rome - Social conditions - Congresses --- Slavery (Roman law) - Congresses --- Social classes - Rome - Congresses --- épigraphie --- esclaves --- droit --- religion --- Römisches Reich. --- Inschrift. --- Sklaverei.