By Kristina Sessa
This booklet is the 1st cultural heritage of papal authority in overdue antiquity. whereas most standard histories posit a "rise of the papacy" and think about popes as politicians, theologians, and civic leaders, Kristina Sessa makes a speciality of the past due Roman loved ones and its serious function within the improvement of the Roman church from ca. 350-600. She argues that Rome's bishops followed the traditional elite family as a version of excellent executive for top the church. primary to this phenomenon used to be the classical and biblical determine of the steward, the householder's appointed agent who oversaw his estate and folks. As stewards of God, Roman bishops endeavored to workout ethical and fabric impression inside either the pope's personal management and the families of Italy's clergy and lay elites. This unique and nuanced learn charts their manifold interactions with overdue Roman families and indicates how bishops used household wisdom because the foundation for setting up their authority as Italy's singular non secular leaders.
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92 Rome’s bishops, this book demonstrates, understood their domestic authority in similarly subordinate terms. They were the stewards of God, the Chief Householder, slaves chosen by him to oversee the vast multitudes of people and properties composing the domus dei. Just as the slave-steward oversaw his master’s estate and rendered an account of his work on the lord’s return, the Roman bishop would have to present a reckoning of his religious oversight on Judgment Day before the Lord. ” This study explains how – and to what extent – Rome’s popes accomplished these daunting cultural tasks.
Consequently, we shall pay close attention to the concrete facets of household management, especially to its legal and social dimensions, which were highly developed in the late Roman world. The domus was not just a metaphor for government; it was also the cornerstone of the late antique economy. 98 A similarly dual approach to oikonomia is followed throughout the book. Second, placing the domestic sphere at the center of analysis allows us to examine the politics of episcopal authority from multiple perspectives, rather than solely from the top down.
139 Second, Rome’s ecclesiastical structure was unusual and especially unwieldy. In the suburbicarian provinces of Italy there were no metropolitans, only bishops, making the Roman prelate the region’s highestranking church official. 140 These arrangements undoubtedly brought much prestige to the Roman church, but they also made its jurisdictional remit extraordinarily large in terms of the numbers of sees technically under its tutelage. By ca. 142 Each of these suburbicarian dioceses came with a bishop as well as several priests, deacons, and numerous lower clergy who were all technically under Rome’s jurisdiction.