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Staying Roman

Name: Staying Roman
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521196970
Price: 422.75 PLN
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Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700

Autor: Jonathan Conant

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Cambridge University Press

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What did it mean to be Roman once the Roman Empire had collapsed in the West? Staying Roman examines...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Jonathan Conant

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2012

strony

442

EAN

9780521196970

ISBN

0521196973

Enbook ID

04428055

Wydawca

Cambridge University Press

Waga

782

Wymiary

234 x 158 x 26

Pełny opis

What did it mean to be Roman once the Roman Empire had collapsed in the West? Staying Roman examines Roman identities in the region of modern Tunisia and Algeria between the fifth-century Vandal conquest and the seventh-century Islamic invasions. Using historical, archaeological and epigraphic evidence, this study argues that the fracturing of the empire's political unity also led to a fracturing of Roman identity along political, cultural and religious lines, as individuals who continued to feel 'Roman' but who were no longer living under imperial rule sought to redefine what it was that connected them to their fellow Romans elsewhere. The resulting definitions of Romanness could overlap, but were not always mutually reinforcing. Significantly, in late antiquity Romanness had a practical value, and could be used in remarkably flexible ways to foster a sense of similarity or difference over space, time and ethnicity, in a wide variety of circumstances.