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News and frontier consciousness in the late Roman Empire / Mark W. Graham.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graham, Mark W., 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Limes (Roman boundary).
- History.
- Boundaries.
- Rome--Civilization.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Civilization.
- Rome--Boundaries--History.
- Limes (Roman boundary)--History.
- Frontier thesis.
- Communication--Rome--History.
- Communication.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 247 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Worldview
- 1 Frontiers, News, and Worldview 11
- 2 Toward a Late Roman Cosmology of Space and Frontiers 27
- 3 [Characters not reproducible]: Natural Frontiers in a Late Roman Worldview 51
- Part 2 Media: The Triumph of the Periphery
- 4 Modes of Communicating Frontiers 79
- 5 Getting the Word Around 103
- Part 3 Pagans, Christians, and Frontiers
- 6 Prophecy, Divination, and Frontiers 125
- 7 Divine Protection of Frontiers 149
- 8 A Christian Imperium sine Fine? 155
- Index Locorum 239.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0472115626
- OCLC:
- 67240025
- Publisher Number:
- 9780472115624
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