News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire / Mark W. Graham
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| Autore: |
Graham Mark W. <1970->
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| Titolo: |
News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire / Mark W. Graham
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| Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2006 |
| ©2006 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xviii, 247 pages) : illustrations, map; PDF, digital file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 937/.09 |
| Soggetto topico: | Communication - Rome - History |
| Frontier thesis | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Limes (Roman boundary) History |
| Rome Boundaries History | |
| Rome Civilization | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-230) and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | News and frontier consciousness in the late Roman Empire |
| ISBN: | 9780472901067 |
| 0472901060 | |
| 9780472115624 | |
| 0472115626 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910265235503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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