The edges of the Roman World / edited by Marko A. Janković, Vladimir D. Mihajlović and Stasa Babić.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Janković, Marko A., editor.

Mihajlović, Vladimir D., editor.

Babić, Staša, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--History.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Edges of the Roman World is a volume consisting of seventeen papers dealing with different approaches to cultural changes that occurred in the context of Roman imperial politics. Papers are mainly focused on societies on the fringes, both social and geographical, and their response to Roman Imperialism. This volume is not a textbook, but rather a collection of different approaches which address the same problem of Roman Imperialism in local contexts. The volume is greatly inspired by the ...

Contents:

Table of contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Foreword; Introduction; Roman-barbarian interactions and the creation of Dutch national identity; The people's protest; The "Hellenization" process and the Balkan Iron Age archaeology; Violent ethnicities; Religion and identity in the Roman Empire; Knowing your neighbour; Vinum vires; Indicating borders or defining sphere of influence? The Carthaginian position in the western Mediterranean in light of its treaties with Rome; Headhunting on the Roman Frontier; The Empire of friends and the House of the father; Being Roman and Greek

On the praefectura orae maritimae on the western coast of the Black Sea Enemy at the gates?The interactions between Dacians and Romans in the 1st century AD; "Objects in action"; The formation of early imperial peregrine civitates in Dalmatia; The Batavians between Germania and Rome; Afterword When Empires Collapse; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 27, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6154-5

OCLC:

881510113