Palmyra, the Roman Empire, and the Third Century crisis : zooming in and scaling up from the evidence / edited by Rubina Raja and Eivind Heldaas Seland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raja, Rubina, 1975- editor.

Seland, Eivind Heldaas, editor.

Series:

Oriens et occidens ; Bd. 46.

Oriens et occidens : Studien zu antiken Kulturkontakten und ihrem Nachleben, 1615-4517 ; Band 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tadmur (Syria)--History.

Tadmur (Syria).

Syria--Tadmur.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

323 pages : illustrations, charts, maps, plans ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2025]

Summary:

The third century is often seen as a period of crisis in the Roman world, marked by political upheaval, violence, war, religious strife, hyperinflation, climatic instability, pandemics, and border incursions. These troubled times, however, coincided with the peak of Palmyra's prosperity. They encompassed the Syrian city's drift towards centralised rulership and short-lived political hegemony in the Near East, as well as its reach for imperial power and downfall in the years 270-272 CE. How can this discrepancy between metropolitan crisis and peripheral prosperity be explained? Along with experts on different aspects of Palmyra, this volume gathers contributions from leading scholars working with the Roman Empire, and with neighbouring regions inside and beyond the imperial borders. Highlighting parallels, discrepancies, connections, and disconnections between developments in Palmyra and other parts of the world with which Palmyra interacted, the aim is a more critical, detailed, and nuanced understanding of the situation in the Roman Near East in the third century CE.

Contents:

Palmyra and the Third Century Crisis: Entangled Perspectives / Rubina Raja / Eivind Heldaas Seland

Was There a Crisis of the Third Century CE? / Kai Ruffing

The Military in the Third-Century Roman Empire: An Overview / Michael A. Speidel

Religious Trends in the Roman West in the Third Century CE / Wolfgang Spickermann

The Third Century in the Iranian World, a Time of Rupture and Renovation: Palmyra between the Arsacid and the Sasanian Empires / Matthew Canepa

The Crisis of the Third Century in East Asia Political Collapse and Change in East and Inner Asia During the Third Century CE / Tomas Larsen Høisæter

Palmyra and the Indian Ocean World in the Third Century CE / Eivind Heldaas Seland

Sheltering from Crisis: Living the Third Century in Roman Syria / J.)A. Baird

Palmyra in the Third Century CE: Looking for the Invisible 'Crisis' at Home / Olympia Bobou / Rubina Raja

The Third Century Crisis and the Sarcophagus Market in Syria / Sarah Madole Lewis

The Development of Aramaic Writing Between Palmyra and Edessa at the Turn of the Third Century / Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet

The Third Century Crisis and Religious Life in Palmyra / Lucinda Dirven

Inscriptions in Third Century Palmyra: Where is the Crisis? / Jean-Baptiste Yon

The Palmyrene Revolt, the Eastern Desert of Egypt, and Red Sea Trade in the Late Third Century CE / Andrew Wilson

Third-Century Palmyra After Das palmyrenische Teilreich The Palmyrenes and Their Connections to Jews, Christians, Baptists, and Manichaeans / Nathanael Andrade

What's New in Palmyra? Notes on Housing, Society, and the Role of the City after the Third Century CE Crisis / Emanuele E. Intagliata

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783515140218

3515140212

OCLC:

1561279623

Publisher Number:

9783515140218