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Communal dining in the Roman West : private munificence towards cities and associations in the first three centuries AD
This dissertation examines the practice of privately sponsored communal dining in the western half of the Roman Empire in the first three centuries AD. Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, it first investigates the benefactors who donated public dinners and the various groups of beneficiaries who were the recipients of their benefactions. The principal aim is to place the privately funded food benefactions of the first centuries of the Empire in their political and social contexts so as to reconstruct the motives of those who provided them. It is followed by an investigation of privately sponsored meals for various associations. Finally, an effort is made to delineate the geographical and long-term chronological distributions of this practice and an attempt is made to explain these patterns. This dissertation demonstrates that in the western half of the Roman Empire, the popularity of privately sponsored communal dining was a region...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the practice of privately sponsored communal dining in the western half of the Roman Empire in the first three centuries AD. Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, it first investigates the benefactors who donated public dinners and the various groups of beneficiaries who were the recipients of their benefactions. The principal aim is to place the privately funded food benefactions of the first centuries of the Empire in their political and social contexts so as to reconstruct the motives of those who provided them. It is followed by an investigation of privately sponsored meals for various associations. Finally, an effort is made to delineate the geographical and long-term chronological distributions of this practice and an attempt is made to explain these patterns. This dissertation demonstrates that in the western half of the Roman Empire, the popularity of privately sponsored communal dining was a region-specific phenomenon which was rooted in specific social and political cultures in the communities of Italy, Baetica and Africa Proconsularis. The region-specific differences in political cultures and long-term changes in these region-specific cultures are key to understanding not only the long persistence of this practice but also its ultimate disappearance.
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- Wen, S.
- Supervisor
- Ligt, L. de
- Co-supervisor
- Beerden, K.
- Committee
- Nijf, O.M. van; Schrover, M.L.J.C.; Zuiderhoek, A.; Claes, L.M.G.F.E.
- Qualification
- Doctor (dr.)
- Awarding Institution
- Institute for History , Faculty of Humanities , Leiden University
- Date
- 2018-09-06
Funding
- Sponsorship
- China Scholarship Council