Approaching the holy household
Approaching the holy household
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2007
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K. Cooper
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The history of the household in late antiquity involves the same pressures and transformations, often in concentrated form, as the history of late antiquity writ large. During late antiquity the Roman household evolved away from an established role as the main place of business for the Roman dominus and the initial site for training young citizens in the virtues of obedience, courage, and pietas required by the civic order to an increasingly volatile arena for testing and negotiating political loyalties, ethnic affiliations, and religious identities. The household, in sum, was at its most basic level a physical space, and, along with the forum and battlefield, it was a space in which the myriad incremental conflicts that added up to “the fall of Rome” took place. At the same time, the household was a collection—often large and complex—of human beings, and among Roman institutions the household was virtually unique in bringing together an intensity of theoretical reflection, reaching back a millennium to Plato and Aristotle,1 with a comparatively flexible polity.2 The domus or oikos3 was well-served by legal provision,