Imperial Ideology And Provincial Loyalty In The Roman Empire

Author : Clifford Ando
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520280168

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Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire by Clifford Ando Pdf

The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever-fashionable question, Why did the Roman empire fall? Rather, he asks, Why did the empire last so long? Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified. This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando investigates the mechanisms that sustained this conversation, explores its contribution to the legitimation of Roman power, and reveals as its product the provincial absorption of the forms and content of Roman political and legal discourse. Throughout, his sophisticated and subtle reading is informed by current thinking on social formation by theorists such as Max Weber, Jürgen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu.

Author : Clifford Ando
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748655342

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Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284 by Clifford Ando Pdf

In this pioneering history Clifford Ando describes and integrates the contrasting histories of different parts of the empire and assesses the impacts of administrative, political and religious change.

Author : John Alexander Lobur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135867522

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Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology by John Alexander Lobur Pdf

This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to ‘legitimate’ and ‘traditional’ forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these notions become explicated and reconfigured by the upper and mostly non-political classes of Italy and Rome. The chronic turmoil experienced in the late republic shaped the values and program of the imperial system; it molded the comprehensive and authoritative accounts of Roman tradition and history in a way that allowed the system to appear both traditional and historical. This book also examines how shifts in rhetorical and historiographical practices facilitated the spreading and assimilation of shared ideas that allowed the empire to cohere.

Author : Olivier Hekster
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Ancient Cult
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198736820

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Emperors and Ancestors by Olivier Hekster Pdf

This is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which Roman imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted. Rather than focusing on individual rulers of the Roman Empire, it evaluates evidence over an extended period of time and differentiates between various types of sources, such as inscriptions, sculpture, architecture, literary text, and particularly central coinage, which forms the most convenient source material for a modern reconstruction of Roman representations of power over a prolonged period of time.

Author : Clifford Ando
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520259867

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The Matter of the Gods by Clifford Ando Pdf

What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, & what motivated them to change those rituals? Clifford Ando explores the answers to these questions, pursuing a variety of themes essential to the study of religion in history.

Author : Carlos F. Noreña
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781107005082

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Imperial Ideals in the Roman West by Carlos F. Noreña Pdf

This book shows how the circulation of ideals associated with the Roman emperor generated ideological unification among aristocracies and reinforced Roman power.

Author : Clifford Ando
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812204889

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Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition by Clifford Ando Pdf

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 Roman Tradition, the civil law was also an instrument of empire: many of its most characteristic features developed in response to the challenges posed when the legal system of Rome was deployed to embrace, incorporate, and govern people and cultures far afield. Ando studies the processes through which lawyers at Rome grappled with the legal pluralism resulting from imperial conquests. He focuses primarily on the tools—most prominently analogy and fiction—used to extend the system and enable it to regulate the lives of persons far from the minds of the original legislators, and he traces the central place that philosophy of language came to occupy in Roman legal thought. In the second part of the book Ando examines the relationship between civil, public, and international law. Despite the prominence accorded public and international law in legal theory, it was civil law that provided conceptual resources to those other fields in the Roman tradition. Ultimately it was the civil law's implication in systems of domination outside its own narrow sphere that opened the door to its own subversion. When political turmoil at Rome upended the institutions of political and legislative authority and effectively ended Roman democracy, the concepts and language that the civil law supplied to the project of Republican empire saw their meanings transformed. As a result, forms of domination once exercised by Romans over others were inscribed in the workings of law at Rome, henceforth to be exercised by the Romans over themselves.

Author : Wouter Vanacker,Arjan Zuiderhoek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317118473

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Imperial Identities in the Roman World by Wouter Vanacker,Arjan Zuiderhoek Pdf

In recent years, the debate on Romanisation has often been framed in terms of identity. Discussions have concentrated on how the expansion of empire impacted on the constructed or self-ascribed sense of belonging of its inhabitants, and just how the interaction between local identities and Roman ideology and practices may have led to a multicultural empire has been a central research focus. This volume challenges this perspective by drawing attention to the processes of identity formation that contributed to an imperial identity, a sense of belonging to the political, social, cultural and religious structures of the Empire. Instead of concentrating on politics and imperial administration, the volume studies the manifold ways in which people were ritually engaged in producing, consuming, organising, believing and worshipping that fitted the (changing) realities of empire. It focuses on how individuals and groups tried to do things 'the right way', i.e., the Greco-Roman imperial way. Given the deep cultural entrenchment of ritualistic practices, an imperial identity firmly grounded in such practices might well have been instrumental, not just to the long-lasting stability of the Roman imperial order, but also to the persistence of its ideals well into (Christian) Late Antiquity and post-Roman times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Rome
ISBN : OCLC:804905073

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The Matter of the Gods by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gil Gambash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317579359

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Rome and Provincial Resistance by Gil Gambash Pdf

This book demonstrates and analyzes patterns in the response of the Imperial Roman state to local resistance, focusing on decisions made within military and administrative organizations during the Principate. Through a thorough investigation of the official Roman approach towards local revolt, author Gil Gambash answers significant questions that, until now, have produced conflicting explanations in the literature: Was Rome’s rule of its empire mostly based on oppressive measures, or on the willing cooperation of local populations? To what extent did Roman decisions and actions indicate a dedication towards stability in the provinces? And to what degree were Roman interests pursued at the risk of provoking local resistance? Examining the motivations and judgment of decision-makers within the military and administrative organizations – from the emperor down to the provincial procurator – this book reconstructs the premises for decisions and ensuing actions that promoted negotiation and cooperation with local populations. A ground-breaking work that, for the first time, provides a centralized view of Roman responses to indigenous revolt, Rome and Provincial Resistance is essential reading for scholars of Roman imperial history.

Author : Rada Varga,Viorica Rusu-Bolindeț
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317086130

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Official Power and Local Elites in the Roman Provinces by Rada Varga,Viorica Rusu-Bolindeț Pdf

Presenting a new and revealing overview of the ruling classes of the Roman Empire, this volume explores aspects of the relations between the official state structures of Rome and local provincial elites. The central objective of the volume is to present as complex a picture as possible of the provincial leaderships and their many and varied responses to the official state structures. The perspectives from which issues are approached by the contributors are as multiple as the realities of the Roman world: from historical and epigraphic studies to research of philological and linguistic interpretations, and from architectural analyses to direct interpretations of the material culture. While some local potentates took pride in their relationship with Rome and their use of Latin, exhibiting their allegiances publicly as well as privately, others preferred to keep this display solely for public manifestation. These complex and complementary pieces of research provide an in-depth image of the power mechanisms within the Roman state. The chronological span of the volume is from Rome’s Republican conquest of Greece to the changing world of the fourth and fifth centuries AD, when a new ecclesiastical elite began to emerge.

Author : Q. Edward Wang,Okamoto Michihiro,Li Longguo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110717495

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Western Historiography in Asia by Q. Edward Wang,Okamoto Michihiro,Li Longguo Pdf

This volume provides a unique and critical perspective on how Chinese, Japanese and Korean scholars engage and critique the West in their historical thinking. It showcases the dialogue between Asian experts and their Euro-American counterparts and offers valuable insights on how to challenge and overcome Eurocentrism in historical writing.

Author : John Nicols
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004261716

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Civic Patronage in the Roman Empire by John Nicols Pdf

The Roman Empire of the Principate may be understood as a consortium of communities bound together by ties that were institutional and personal. Civic patrons played a central role in that process by which subjects became citizens.

Author : Clifford Ando
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058870018

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Roman Religion by Clifford Ando Pdf

Historiography and method -- Religious institutions and religious authority -- Ritual and myth -- Theology -- Roman and alien -- Continuity and change from Republic to Empire.

Author : M. T. G. Humphreys
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Byzantium
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198701576

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Law, Power, and Imperial Ideology in the Iconoclast Era, C.680-850 by M. T. G. Humphreys Pdf

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral) -- Cambridge University, 2012.