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Roman perspectives : studies in the social, political and cultural history of the first to fifth centuries / John Matthews.

Title
Roman perspectives : studies in the social, political and cultural history of the first to fifth centuries / John Matthews.
Author
Matthews, John (John Frederick)
Publication
Swansea : Classical Press of Wales, 2010.

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xvi, 406 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
The [17] papers in this volume discuss issues of Roman social, cultural and political history from the foundation of the Principate to the age of barbarian settlements of the west.
Subject
  • 30 B.C.-476 A.D
  • Civilization
  • Rome (Empire)
  • Rome > Civilization
  • Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
  • Romerska riket > 31 f. Kr.-476 e. Kr. (kejsartiden)
  • Romerska riket > kultur- och samhällsliv > 31 f. Kr.-476 e. Kr. (kejsartiden)
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-394) and index.
Language (note)
  • In English; some text in the original Latin with accompanying English translation.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Gibbon and the later Roman Empire : causes and circumstances -- Power in the Classical world : a three-cornered dialogue : Thucydides, Thomas Hobbes, Tacitus -- Ronald Syme, Constantine the Great and the second Roman revolution -- Tacitus, Acta senatus, and the inauguration of Tiberius -- Six tales of the equestrian order -- A last will and testament -- Travel, diplomacy and the diffusion of ideas in the Roman Mediterranean and Near East -- The cultural landscape of the Bordeaux Itinerary -- Ammianus and the eternity of Rome -- The letters of Symmachus -- Four funerals and a wedding : this world and the next in fourth-century Rome -- Children's games in Augustine's Confessions -- Roman law and Roman history -- Ammianus on Roman law and lawyers -- Roman law and barbarian identity in the Late Roman West -- Interpretating the Interpretationes of the Breviarium of Alaric -- Macsen, Maximus, Constantine.
ISBN
  • 9781905125395
  • 1905125399
LCCN
  • 2010281233
  • 99938326508
  • 99939090198
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library