LEADER 03732nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910840757803321 005 20210811182554.0 010 $a1-283-51415-X 010 $a9786613826602 010 $a1-4443-9020-1 010 $a1-4443-9018-X 010 $a1-4443-9019-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066345 035 $a(EBL)644971 035 $a(OCoLC)700706067 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000472859 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11299802 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472859 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10436936 035 $a(PQKB)10220379 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC644971 035 $a(PPN)201677792 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066345 100 $a20110205d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe Roman empire in context $ehistorical and comparative perspectives /$fedited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub 210 $aChichester, West Sussex, U.K. $cWiley$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (432 p.) 225 1 $aAncient World: Comparative Histories ;$vv.4 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-118-14677-8 311 $a0-470-65557-7 327 $aThe Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Expansion and Transformation; 2 From City-State to Empire: Rome in Comparative Perspective; 3 The Transition from Republic to Principate: Loss of Legitimacy, Revolution, and Acceptance; 4 Strong and Weak Regimes: Comparing the Roman Principate and the Medieval Crown of Aragon; Part II Late Antiquity: Division, Transformation, and Continuity; 5 The Background to the Third-Century Crisis of the RomanEmpire 327 $a6 The End of Sacrifice: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity7 Contextualizing Late Antiquity: The First Millennium; Part III Destinies of the Roman Legacy; 8 The Franks: Rome's Heirs in the West; 9 The End of Rome? The Transformation of the Eastern Empire in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE; 10 The First Islamic Empire; Part IV Comparative Perspectives; 11 From City-State to Empire: The Case of Assyria; 12 China's Early Empires: The Authority and Means of Government; 13 The Legs of the Throne: Kings, Elites, and Subjects in Sasanian Iran 327 $a14 The King of Kings: Universal Hegemony, Imperial Power, and a New Comparative History of RomePart V Conceptual and Theoretical Reflections; 15 The Roman Phenomenon: State, Empire, and Civilization; 16 Roman-European Continuities: Conceptual and Historical Questions; General Index; Index of Sources (selective) 330 $aThrough a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire's role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome's significance within comparative studies.Fills a gap in comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire's role and achievementFeatures contributions from more than a dozen distinguished scholars from around the worldExplores the relevance of important comparativist themes of state, empire, and civilization to a 410 0$aAncient World: Comparative Histories 607 $aRome$xHistory$yEmpire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D 676 $a937.06 676 $a937/.06 701 $aA?rnason$b Jo?hann Pa?ll$f1940-$0481951 701 $aRaaflaub$b Kurt A$0154102 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910840757803321 996 $aThe Roman empire in context$94133981 997 $aUNINA