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22 produkter
Mind of the Slave
The Limits of Ownership in Roman Law and Society
Inbunden, 2026
1088 kr
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The Mind of the Slave untangles the double nature of slaves as property and as human beings under the law in the Roman world. As human beings, slaves had free will and legally recognized autonomy while acting for their owner. Although their autonomy was fundamental to the Roman economy, it had the …
Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition
E-bok, 2011
806 kr
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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 demonstrates in Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, the civil law was also an instrument of empire: many of its most characteristic …
Religion in Republican Rome
Rationalization and Ritual Change
Av Jörg Rüpke
E-bok, 2012
1242 kr
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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 Latin allies in 338 B.C.E. and the attempt of the Italian peoples in the Social War to stop Roman domination, resulting in the victory of Rome over …
Violence in Roman Egypt
A Study in Legal Interpretation
Av Ari Z. Bryen
E-bok, 2013
1166 kr
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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 law play in people's lives? And what did they expect their government to do for them when they felt harmed and helpless?If ancient historians have …
Ethnography After Antiquity
Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
E-bok, 2013
1192 kr
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Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.-a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantines, geographically …
Constantine and the Cities
Imperial Authority and Civic Politics
Av Noel Lenski
Häftad, 2017
553 kr
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Over the course of the fourth century, Christianity rose from a religion actively persecuted by the authority of the Roman empire to become the religion of state-a feat largely credited to Constantine the Great. Constantine succeeded in propelling this minority religion to imperial status using the …
Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition
Inbunden, 2011
703 kr
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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 demonstrates in Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, the civil law was also an instrument of empire: many of its most characteristic …
Violence in Roman Egypt
A Study in Legal Interpretation
Av Ari Z. Bryen
Inbunden, 2013
994 kr
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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 law play in people's lives? And what did they expect their government to do for them when they felt harmed and helpless?If ancient historians have …
Ethnography After Antiquity
Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
Inbunden, 2013
994 kr
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Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.-a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantines, geographically …
Gods, the State, and the Individual
Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome
Av John Scheid
Inbunden, 2015
761 kr
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Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine …
Constantine and the Cities
Imperial Authority and Civic Politics
Av Noel Lenski
Inbunden, 2016
1329 kr
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Over the course of the fourth century, Christianity rose from a religion actively persecuted by the authority of the Roman empire to become the religion of state-a feat largely credited to Constantine the Great. Constantine succeeded in propelling this minority religion to imperial status using the …
Ancient States and Infrastructural Power
Europe, Asia, and America
Av Clifford Ando, Seth Richardson
Inbunden, 2017
994 kr
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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 in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise of force outside of war and in the infrastructural and regulatory powers that such force would, in …
Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times
Inbunden, 2018
1262 kr
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The era of the Roman Empire was distinguished by an explosion of images and texts in a variety of media-metal, papyrus, mosaic, gemstone-all designed to protect, heal, or grant some abstract benefit to the persons who wore them on their bodies or placed them in their homes. In the past scholars …
Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E.
Inbunden, 2017
877 kr
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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 flow of empire and kingdoms as historical agents with their own social strategies. Contrary to earlier historiographical accounts, these aristocrats …
Politics of Roman Memory
From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian
Av Marion Kruse
Inbunden, 2019
877 kr
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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 for the inhabitants of both east and west? How could an empire be Roman when it was, in fact, at war with Rome? How did these issues motivate and …
From Trophy Towns to City-States
Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus
Inbunden, 2020
877 kr
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In 66 BCE, in the woods of Armenia Minor, Pompey the Great defeated Mithridates VI Eupator, making him one of the most successful Roman generals of all time. The victory presented him with the enormous challenge of organizing not only Mithridates' kingdom but also large parts of Anatolia and the …
Gods, the State, and the Individual
Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome
Av John Scheid
E-bok, 2015
913 kr
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Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine …
Constantine and the Cities
Imperial Authority and Civic Politics
Av Noel Lenski
E-bok, 2016
688 kr
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Over the course of the fourth century, Christianity rose from a religion actively persecuted by the authority of the Roman empire to become the religion of state-a feat largely credited to Constantine the Great. Constantine succeeded in propelling this minority religion to imperial status using the …
Ancient States and Infrastructural Power
Europe, Asia, and America
Av Clifford Ando, Seth Richardson
E-bok, 2017
1166 kr
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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 in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise of force outside of war and in the infrastructural and regulatory powers that such force would, in …
Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E.
E-bok, 2017
1058 kr
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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 flow of empire and kingdoms as historical agents with their own social strategies. Contrary to earlier historiographical accounts, these aristocrats …
Politics of Roman Memory
From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian
Av Marion Kruse
E-bok, 2019
1058 kr
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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 for the inhabitants of both east and west? How could an empire be Roman when it was, in fact, at war with Rome? How did these issues motivate and …
From Trophy Towns to City-States
Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus
E-bok, 2020
1035 kr
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In 66 BCE, in the woods of Armenia Minor, Pompey the Great defeated Mithridates VI Eupator, making him one of the most successful Roman generals of all time. The victory presented him with the enormous challenge of organizing not only Mithridates' kingdom but also large parts of Anatolia and the …
