Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers

Daniëlle Slootjes, Ph.D. (2004), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She specializes in the field of Late Antiquity, with a particular focus on administrative structures, geography, early Christianity and crowd behaviour. Michael Peachin, Ph.D. (1983), Columbia University, is Professor of Classics at New York University. He has published widely on the history of early imperial Rome, including the edited Oxford Handbook of Roman Social Relations (Oxford, 2011).Contributors are: Isaías Arrayás-Morales, Stéphane Benoist, Wim Broekaert, Lukas de Blois, Blair Fowlkes-Childs, Gil Gambash, Daniel Hoyer, Anne Hunnell-Chen, Anne Kolb, Toni Ñaco del Hoyo, John Nicols, Günther Schörner, Michael A. Speidel, Wouter Vanacker, and Nancy L. Wicker.

"The entire work broadens our understanding of the Roman Empire as a fluid system in constant contact with the worlds and systems beyond its frontiers. This is an important endeavor at a time when trends in scholarship on Rome are focusing increasingly on the reciprocal nature of relationships between Rome and the territories within its sphere of influence. (...) Many of the individual contributions also draw on recent scholarship in other fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and science and technology studies, which greatly enhance the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of Rome and the worlds beyond its frontiers."Katheryn Whitcomb, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.07.43

• ContentsList of FiguresIntroductionMichael Peachin and Daniëlle SlootjesPart 1 - Politics & Military1 Rome, Pontus, Thrace and the Military Disintegration of the World Beyond the Hellenistic EastToni Ñaco del Hoyo and Isaías Arrayás-Morales2 Estranging the Familiar—Rome’s Ambivalent Approach to BritainGil Gambash3 Rome and Persia in the Middle of the Third Century AD (230–266)Lukas de Blois4 The Emperor Beyond the Frontiers: A Double-Mirror as a ‘Political Discourse’Stéphane BenoistPart 2 - Politics, Economics, & Society5 Turning the Inside Out: The Divergent Experiences of Gaul and Africa during the Third Century ADDan Hoyer6 Raiders to Traders? Economics of Integration among Nomadic Communities in North AfricaWim Broekaert and Wouter Vanacker7 Transfer römischer Technik jenseits der Grenzen: Aneignung und ExportGünther Schörner8 Perceptions from Beyond: Some Observations on Non-Roman Assessments of the Roman Empire from the Great Eastern Trade RoutesAnne Kolb and Michael A. Speidel9 Hospitium: Understanding ‘Ours’ and ‘Theirs’ on the Roman FrontierJohn NicolsPart 3 - Material Culture and Culture10 Palmyrenes in Transtiberim: Integration in Rome and Links to the Eastern FrontierBlair Fowlkes-Childs11 Rival Powers, Rival Images: Diocletian’s Palace at Split in Light of Sasanian Palace DesignAnne Hunnell Chen12 The Reception of Figurative Art Beyond the Frontier: Scandinavian Encounters with Roman NumismaticsNancy L. WickerIndex of PlacesIndex of NamesGeneral Index