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82 For a good introduction see G. Vikan, Byzantine Pilgrimage Art (Washington DC: Dumbar-
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83 See the excellent study by Béatrice Caseau, ‘Ordinary objects in Christian healing sanc-
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84 See J. Herrin, ‘Ideals of charity, realities of welfare. The philanthropic activity of the Byzan-
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85 See Peter Brown, Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (Hanover, NH: Brandeis
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World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), with fi ve chapters dealing with late
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86 Jill Harries, ‘“Treasure in heaven”: property and inheritance among the senators of late
Rome’, in E.M. Craik, ed., Marriage and Property: Women and Marital Customs in History
(Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1984), 54–70.
87 See Richard Finn, Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire: Christian Promotion and Practice
(313–450) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
88 See Clark, Reading Renunciation.
89 Evelyne Patlagean, Pauvreté économique et pauvreté sociale à Byzance, IVe–VIIe siècles (Paris: Mou-
ton, 1977), 113–55, and cf. 181–96.
90 Trans. R. Davis, The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontifi calis), Translated Texts for Historians 6, rev.
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tion to late antiquity’, in W. Scheidel, I. Morris, R. Saller, eds., The Cambridge Economic History
of the Graeco-Roman World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 743–68.
2 See Averil Cameron, ‘A.H.M. Jones and the end of the ancient world’, in David M. Gwynn,
ed., A.H.M. Jones and the End of the Roman Empire (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 231–49.
3 Ramsay MacMullen, Corruption and the Decline of Rome (New Haven: Yale University Press,
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4 M.I. Rostovtzeff, Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire, Eng. trans., rev. P.M. Fraser
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957).
5 Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (London: New Left Book Club, 1974).
6 G.E.M. De Ste Croix, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: from the Archaic Age to the
Arab Conquests (London: Duckworth, 1981). For a recent discussion see A. Giardina, ‘Marx-
ism and historiography: perspectives on Roman history’, in Chris Wickham, ed., Marxist
History-Writing for the Twenty-First Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British
Academy, 2007), 15–31.
7 See for instance A.H.M. Jones’s articles on the colonate and taxation in P. Brunt, ed., The
Roman Economy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1974); Rostovtzeff, Social and Economic History of the
Roman Empire, chapter 12, and cf., e.g., C.G. Starr, The Roman Empire, 27 BC to AD 476: A
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