Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Historical Overview

PART ONE. THE MAKING OF THE PEASANT CONSUMER

2. Rural Consumption in Early Imperial North Africa

3. A Late Antique Consumer Revolution?

PART TWO. THE STRUGGLE FOR COMMUNITY

4. Frustrated Communities: The Rise and Fall of the Self-Governing Village

5. Bishops Where No Bishops Should Be: The Phenomenon of the Rural Bishopric

PART THREE. PREACHING AND REBELLION

6. Preaching to Peasants

7. Reinterpreting Rebellion: Textual Communities and the Circumcellions

Conclusion

Appendix. The Identifiable Rural Bishoprics

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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