Empire and Religion in the Roman World
- Editor: Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University, New Jersey
- Date Published: April 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108927581
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The inspiration for this volume comes from the work of its dedicatee, Brent D. Shaw, who is one of the most original and wide-ranging historians of the ancient world of the last half-century and continues to open up exciting new fields for exploration. Each of the distinguished contributors has produced a cutting-edge exploration of a topic in the history and culture of the Roman Empire dealing with a subject on which Professor Shaw has contributed valuable work. Three major themes extend across the volume as a whole. First, the ways in which the Roman world represented an intricate web of connections even while many people's lives remained fragmented and local. Second, the ways in which the peculiar Roman space promoted religious competition in a sophisticated marketplace for practices and beliefs, with Christianity being a major benefactor. Finally, the varying forms of violence which were endemic within and between communities.
Read more- Distinguished contributors demonstrate the results which can be achieved from an interdisciplinary approach to the Roman empire
- Illustrates networks and local cultures in the Roman empire and shows connections between various approaches
- Examines social change caused by disease, climate, religious innovation, and violence
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- Date Published: April 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108927581
- length: 291 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Empire:
1. Germs and Empire: The Agency of the Microscopic Kyle Harper
2. Imperial Integration on Rome's Atlantic Rim Carlos Noreña
3. The Ambitions of Government: Sovereignty and Control in the Ancient Countryside Clifford Ando
4. Contingency and Context: The Origins of the Jewish War against Rome Erich S. Gruen
Part II. Religion:
5. The First Christian Family of Egypt Sabine R. Huebner
6. Missionaries, Pious Merchants, Freelance Religious Experts, and the Spread of Christianity Éric Rebillard
7. Christian Piety in Late Antiquity: Contexts and Contestations Claudia Rapp
8. Ausonius at the Edge of Empire: Consular Poetics as Cognitive Improvisation Mark Vessey
9. Peregrinationes in Psalmos Catherine Conybeare
10. Muhammad's Rivals: Prophets in Late Antique Arabia Glen W. Bowersock
Epilogue:
11. Brent Shaw: An Intellectual Profile Peter Brown.
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