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Titolo: | The Roman empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives / / edited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub |
Pubblicazione: | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (432 p.) |
Disciplina: | 937.06 |
937/.06 | |
Soggetto geografico: | Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D |
Altri autori: | ÁrnasonJóhann Páll <1940-> RaaflaubKurt A |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | The 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 |
6 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 | |
14 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) | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Through 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Roman empire in context |
ISBN: | 1-283-51415-X |
9786613826602 | |
1-4443-9020-1 | |
1-4443-9018-X | |
1-4443-9019-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910140850703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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