Ethnography After Antiquity

Anthony Kaldellis

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire and After
• Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after ... Lees meer

Ancient States and Infrastructural Power

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire and After
• While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, the contributors to this book argue that they were i... Lees meer

The Politics of Roman Memory

Marion Kruse

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire and After
• What did it mean to be Roman after the fall of the western Roman empire in 476, and what were the implications of new formulations of Roman identity f... Lees meer

Constantine and the Cities

Noel Lenski

• Paperback | Engels | Empire and After
• Over the course of the fourth century, Christianity rose from a religion actively persecuted by the authority of the Roman empire to become the religi... Lees meer

Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E.

Damián Fernández

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire and After
• In a distant corner of the late antique world, along the Atlantic river valleys of western Iberia, local elite populations lived through the ebb and f... Lees meer

Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition

Clifford Ando

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire and After
• The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando d... Lees meer

The Gods, the State, and the Individual

John Scheid

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire and After
• Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religi... Lees meer

Violence in Roman Egypt

Ari Z Bryen

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire and After
• What can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did l... Lees meer

Religion in Republican Rome

Jorg Rupke, Jörg Rüpke

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire and After
• Roman religion as we know it is largely the product of the middle and late republic, the period falling roughly between the victory of Rome over its L... Lees meer