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Unrest in the Roman Empire / Lisa Pilar Eberle und Myles Lavan, herausgeber.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Government, Resistance to--Rome.
- Government, Resistance to.
- Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Campus Frankfurt, 2024.
- Summary:
- Despite Roman claims to have brought peace, unrest was widespread in the Roman empire. Revolts, protests and piracy were common occurrences. How did contemporaries relate to and make sense of such phenomena? This volume gathers eleven contributions by specialists in the various literatures and modes of thinking that flourished in the empire between the second century BCE and the fifth century CE - including Graeco-Roman historiography and philosophy, Jewish prophecy, Christian apology and the writings of the Tannaitic rabbis - to investigate these questions. Each contribution analyses the discourses by which the diverse authors of these texts understood instances of unrest. Together the contributions expand our understanding of the varied politics that pervaded the Roman empire. They highlight the intellectual labour at every level of society that went to (re)making this imperial formation throughout its long history.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 3-593-45850-0
- 9783593458502
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