Books in the Empire and After series examine the social, political, legal, and intellectual history of the worlds first united under Roman rule, also exploring the role of imperial orders and institutions in giving shape to society and legitimacy to the government in Rome’s successor states in the East and West. The series is closed to new submissions
Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus
Jesper Majbom Madsen
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252378
Pub Date: August 2020
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
In 66 BCE, in the woods of Armenia Minor, Pompey the Great defeated Mithridates VI Eupator, making him one of the most successful Roman generals of all time. The victory presented him with the enormous...
From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian
Marion Kruse
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812251623
Pub Date: October 2019
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
What did it mean to be Roman after the fall of the western Roman empire in 476, and what were the implications of new formulations of Roman identity for the inhabitants of both east and west? How could...
Over the course of the fourth century, Christianity rose from a religion actively persecuted by the authority of the Roman empire to become the religion of state—a feat largely credited to Constantine...
Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused...
Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.—a perplexing exception...
Roman religion as we know it is largely the product of the middle and late republic, the period falling roughly between the victory of Rome over its Latin allies in 338 B.C.E. and the attempt of the...
In a distant corner of the late antique world, along the Atlantic river valleys of western Iberia, local elite populations lived through the ebb and flow of empire and kingdoms as historical agents...
What can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in people's lives? And what did they expect...
The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando demonstrates in Law, Language, and Empire in the...
While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, the contributors to this book argue that they were in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise...
