The Roman Empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives /

The Roman Empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives /

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 comparat...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Árnason, Jóhann Páll, 1940-, Raaflaub, Kurt A.
Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Σειρά:Ancient world--comparative histories.
Θέματα:
Comparative civilization.
History.
HISTORY > Ancient.
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Civilization.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Rome > Civilization.
Rome > History.
Rome (Empire)
Romeinse rijk.
Electronic books.
Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 1. Introduction / Johann P. Arnason
  • pt. I Expansion and Transformation
  • 2. From City-State to Empire: Rome in Comparative Perspective / Kurt A. Raaflaub
  • 3. The Transition from Republic to Principate: Loss of Legitimacy, Revolution, and Acceptance / Egon Flaig
  • 4. Strong and Weak Regimes: Comparing the Roman Principate and the Medieval Crown of Aragon / J.E. Lendon
  • pt. II Late Antiquity: Division, Transformation, and Continuity
  • 5. The Background to the Third-Century Crisis of the Roman Empire / Adam Ziolkowski
  • 6. The End of Sacrifice: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity / Guy G Stroumsa
  • 7. Contextualizing Late Antiquity: The First Millennium / Garth Fowden
  • pt. III Destinies of the Roman Legacy
  • 8. The Franks: Rome's Heirs in the West / Matthias Becher
  • 9. The End of Rome? The Transformation of the Eastern Empire in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE / John Haldon
  • 10. The First Islamic Empire / Chase F. Robinson
  • pt. IV Comparative Perspectives
  • 11. From City-State to Empire: The Case of Assyria / Mario Liverani
  • 12. China's Early Empires: The Authority and Means of Government / Michael Loewe
  • 13. The Legs of the Throne: Kings, Elites, and Subjects in Sasanian Iran / Scott McDonough
  • 14. The King of Kings: Universal Hegemony, Imperial Power, and a New Comparative History of Rome / Peter Fibiger Bang
  • pt. V Conceptual and Theoretical Reflections
  • 15. The Roman Phenomenon: State, Empire, and Civilization / Johann P. Arnason
  • 16. Roman-European Continuities: Conceptual and Historical Questions / Peter Wagner.

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