Changes in the Roman Empire (eBook)

Essays in the Ordinary

Ramsay MacMullen (Autor)

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2019
416 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19805-7 (ISBN)

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Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A.D. 50 and 450. Here, for example, the author applies statistical analysis to broad groups of people on matters ranging from justice through medicine to language. In so doing he is able to substantiate general statements about routines in ordinary people's behavior and to detect within these routines the very changes that constitute history. Such analysis also shows how this era benefits from the same historiographical approaches that have so successfully elucidated sociocultural phenomena in other periods.Drawing from statistical analysis and many other historical approaches, these essays on popular mores in the Roman Empire cover such topics as language and art, acculturation, thought and religion, sex and gender, cruelty and slavery, and aspects of class and power relations. The author introduces the collection with several essays on historical method, as it pertains to the richness of documentation and variety to be found in the region and period chosen.Ramsay MacMullen is Dunham Professor of History and Classics at Yale University. The most recent of his many books include Corruption and the Decline of Rome and Christianizing the Roman Empire: A.D. 100-400, both published by Yale.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Aelius Aristides • Africa (Roman province) • Alemanni • Ammianus Marcellinus • Ancient Philosophy • Ancient Roman Architecture • Ancient Rome • Antoninus Pius • Apologetics • Apuleius • Arcadius • Arianism • Augustan History • Aulus Gellius • Ausonius • Barbarian • Christianity • Circumlocution • Classical Antiquity • classics • Claudian • Constantine the Great and Christianity • Constantinople • Decian Persecution • deity • Dio Chrysostom • diocletian • Diocletianic Persecution • Donatism • edict • Epigraphy • Eutropius (historian) • Exorcism • fall of the western roman empire • First Punic War • Flavian dynasty • Greco-Roman World • Gregory of Nazianzus • Hellenistic period • hellenization • Historiography • Illustration • Imperial cult (ancient Rome) • Julian (emperor) • Lactantius • laeti • Late Antiquity • Libanius • licinius • Literature • Magnentius • Manichaeism • Maxentius • Paedagogus • Paganism • paulinus of nola • Persecution • Philosopher • Philosophy • Pliny the Elder • Plutarch • Polemic • Pottery • praetor • praetorian prefect • Principate • proconsul • Prudentius • Religion • rhetoric • Roman Army • roman citizenship • Roman Empire • Roman government • Roman naming conventions • Roman Question • Roman Religion • roman republic • Ruler • Sibylline Books • Suetonius • Synod of Ancyra • Tax • Terra Sigillata • Tertullian • Themistius • Theodosius I • Theology • The Philosopher • the rise of Christianity • Tiberius Gracchus • Trajan • tunic • Ulpian • Valentinian (play) • Valerius Maximus • Vitruvius • warfare • Wealth • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19805-5 / 0691198055
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19805-7 / 9780691198057