02498oam 22005054a 450 991026523550332120230621140506.09780472901067(ebook)0472901060(ebook)9780472115624(cloth : alk. paper)0472115626(cloth : alk. paper)(CKB)4100000003160943(OAPEN)648348(OCoLC)1111386373(MdBmJHUP)muse73607(ScCtBLL)8f1afd61-3e35-42a2-bd65-ff7c7a8413ad(EXLCZ)99410000000316094320060406d2006 uy 0engurmu#---a||u|txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNews and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman EmpireMark W. GrahamAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2006.©2006.1 online resource (xviii, 247 pages) illustrations, map; PDF, digital file(s)Print version: 9780472115624 Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-230) and index.Prior to the third century A.D., two broad Roman conceptions of frontiers proliferated and competed: an imperial ideology of rule without limit coexisted with very real and pragmatic attempts to define and defend imperial frontiers. But from about A.D. 250-500, there was a basic shift in mentality, as news from and about frontiers began to portray a more defined Roman world—a world with limits—allowing a new understanding of frontiers as territorial and not just as divisions of people. This concept, previously unknown in the ancient world, brought with it a new consciousness, which soon spread to cosmology, geography, myth, sacred texts, and prophecy. The “frontier consciousness” produced a unified sense of Roman identity that transcended local identities and social boundaries throughout the later Empire.CommunicationRomeHistoryFrontier thesisLimes (Roman boundary)HistoryRomeBoundariesHistoryRomeCivilizationElectronic books. CommunicationHistory.Frontier thesis.937/.09Graham Mark W.1970-777390MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUP9910265235503321News and frontier consciousness in the late Roman Empire2025907UNINA