Freedom

Orlando Patterson is the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.

• The Stillbirth Of Freedom In The Non-Western World * Primitive Beginnings * For the Creation of Eyes: Why Freedom Failed in the Non-Western World The Greek Construction Of Freedom * The Greek Origins of Freedom * The Emergence of Slave Society and Civic Freedom * The Persian Wars and the Creation of Organic (Sovereignal) Freedom * Slavery, Empire, and the Periclean Fusion * A Womans Song: The Female Force and the Ideology of Freedom in Greek Tragedy and Society * Fission and Diffusion: Class and the Elements of Freedom in the Late Fifth Century and Beyond * The Outer Intellectual Response * The Turn to Inner Freedom * The Intellectual Response in the Hellenistic and Early Roman World Rome And The Universalization Of Freedom * Freedom and Class Conflict in Republican Rome * The Triumph of the Roman Freedman: Personal Liberty among the Urban Masses of the Early Empire * The Augustan Compromise: Sovereignal Freedom in Defense of Personal Liberty * Freedom, Stoicism, and the Roman Mind Christianity And The Institutionalization Of Freedom * Jesus and the Jesus Movement * Between Jesus and Paul * Paul and His World: A Community of Urban Freedmen * Paul and the Freedom of Mankind The Medieval Reconstruction Of Freedom * Freedom and Servitude in the Middle Ages * Medieval Renditions of the Chord of Freedom * Freedom in the Religious and Secular Thought of the Middle Ages