Harris Roman Power

A Thousand Years of Empire
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-316-68523-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most enduring in world history. In his new book, distinguished historian William V. Harris sets out to explain, within an eclectic theoretical framework, the waxing and eventual waning of Roman imperial power, together with the Roman community's internal power structures (political power, social power, gender power and economic power). Effectively integrating analysis with a compelling narrative, he traces this linkage between the external and the internal through three very long periods, and part of the originality of the book is that it almost uniquely considers both the gradual rise of the Roman Empire and its demise as an empire in the fifth and seventh centuries AD. Professor Harris contends that comparing the Romans of these diverse periods sharply illuminates both the growth and the shrinkage of Roman power as well as the Empire's extraordinary durability.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, William V.

Harris, W. V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; List of illustrations; List of maps; Abbreviations; Timeline; Part I. The Long-Term Evolution of Roman Power; Part II. The Romans against Outsiders, 400 BC to 16 AD: 1. Armed force and enduring control under the Middle Republic: an outline; 2. Techniques of domination under the Middle Republic, to 241 BC; 3. World power, 241 to 146 BC; 4. Questions and controversies; 5. Almost irresistible; 6. Conclusion; Part III. The Romans against Each Other, from Republic to Monarchy: 7. Inside an aristocratic society; 8. The form and nature of the polity in the Middle Republic; 9. Late-republican discontents; 10. One-man rule and its effects on wider power-relationships; 11. Charismatic power, economic power; 12. Internal power, external power; Part IV. The Romans against Outsiders, 16 to 337 AD: 13. Expansion slows and ceases; 14. Desires and reasons; 15. Emperors and their rivals; 16. Military strength and weakness; 17. Knowledge and methods; 18. Conclusion; Part V. The Romans against Each Other: from Empire to Nation?: 19. Durability and docility: the historical problem; 20. Assimilation and identity; 21. The emperor; 22. Imperial questions; 23. Diocletian and Constantine; 24. High and mid-level officials; 25. Order and law; 26. Lower officials; 27. Social and gender power; 28. The power of ideas; 29. Internal power, external power; Part VI. The Romans against Outsiders, 337 to 636 AD: 30. The crucial decades; 31. Western woes; 32. An attempt at explanation; 33. Two centuries later; 34. The unsustainability of Justinian's empire; 35. Conclusion; Part VII. The Romans against Each Other in Two Long Crises: 36. Sixty crucial years of imperial power; 37. Bishops, priests and the state; 38. Social disintegration; 39. Ideas; 40. From Justinian to Heraclius and beyond; 41. Internal rivals; 42. Internal power, external power; Part VIII. Retrospect and Some Reflections; References; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Harris, William V.
William V. Harris is William R. Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University, New York. The author of War and Imperialism in Republican Rome (1985), Ancient Literacy (1989), Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (2002, winner of the Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association), Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity (2009) and Rome's Imperial Economy (2011), he has also edited books about ancient money, the ancient Mediterranean, and the spread of Christianity, among other subjects. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, among other honours.