The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World

Changing Contexts of Power and Identity
Herausgeber: Rapp, Claudia; Drake, H A

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the evolving role of the city and citizenship from classical Athens through fifth-century Rome and medieval Byzantium.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 243
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 180mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781107032668
• ISBN-10: 1107032660
• Artikelnr.: 40621322

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: polis - empire - oikoumene: a world reconfigured Claudia Rapp
and H. A. Drake; 1. A covenant between gods and men: hiera kai hosia and
the Greek polis Josine Blok; 2. Hellenistic imperialism and the ideal of
world unity Rolf Strootman; 3. Lawyers and citizens from republic to
empire: Gaius on the Twelve Tables and Antonine Rome Jill Harries; 4. Laws'
empire: universalism and legal practice Caroline Humfress; 5. A most
unusual empire: Rome in the fourth century Bryan Ward-Perkins; 6. Mobility
and identity between the second and the fourth century CE: the
'cosmopolitization' of the Roman Empire Claudia Moatti; 7. City and
citizenship as Christian metaphors in the Greek fathers Claudia Rapp; 8.
Church-festival-temple: reimagining civic topography in late antiquity
Susanna Elm; 9. Leo the Great: responses to crisis and the shaping of a
Christian cosmopolis Michele Renee Salzman; 10. The battle of the maps in a
Christian empire Emily Albu; 11. Topographies of power in late antiquity
and beyond H. A. Drake; Postscript: cities, citizenship, and the work of
empire Clifford Ando.