Date : 1961-1963
Editeur / Publisher : [s. l.] : [s. n.] , [1963]
Type : Livre / Book
Type : Thèse / ThesisLangue / Language : anglais / English
Ausone -- 0310?-0395? -- Amis et relations -- Société
Âge au mariage -- Rome -- Société
Avortement -- Rome -- Société
Contraception -- Rome -- Société
Démographie historique -- Société -- Rome -- Méthodologie
Enfants naturels -- Rome -- Société
Femmes mariées -- Statut juridique -- Rome -- Société
Infanticide -- Rome -- Société
Mobilité sociale -- Gaule -- Dans la littérature -- 4e siècle
Morale sexuelle -- Rome -- Influence chrétienne
Patriciens (Rome) -- Fécondité -- Antiquité
Patriciens (Rome) -- Population -- Sources
Répartition par âge (démographie) -- Rome -- Société
Transition démographique -- Rome -- Société
Conditions sociales -- Rome -- 284-476
Résumé / Abstract : The description Ausonius has given us of his family and of the teachers and professors of Bordeaux in the mid-fourth century is exceptional among our sources because of its detail and completeness. There is no reason to suppose that the picture he gives is untypical of life in the provinces and it makes a welcome change from the histories of aristocratic politics at Rome or Constantinople. It provides an excellent opportunity for a pilot study in which we may see how the conflicting elements of social status were in practice reconciled and applied. In the traditional, and still prevalent view, the society of the Later Roman Empire was ‘crushed … in the iron clamp of castes separated from one another by barriers which could not be passed’. The evidence of Ausonius suggests that this judgement should be qualified. The society of the fourth century may have been stable. It was not static.