News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire / Mark W. Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Mark W., 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2006.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Prior to the third century A.D., two broad Roman conceptions of frontiers proliferated and competed: an imperial ideology of rule without limit coexisted with very real and pragmatic attempts to define and defend imperial frontiers. But from about A.D. 250-500, there was a basic shift in mentality, as news from and about frontiers began to portray a more defined Roman worldâ€"a world with limitsâ€"allowing a new understanding of frontiers as territorial and not just as divisions of people. This concept, previously unknown in the ancient world, brought with it a new consciousness, which soon spread to cosmology, geography, myth, sacred texts, and prophecy. The “frontier consciousnessâ€_x009d_ produced a unified sense of Roman identity that transcended local identities and social boundaries throughout the later Empire.

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:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100886

ISBN:

9780472115624