TY  - BOOK
AU  - Árnason,Jóhann Páll
AU  - Raaflaub,Kurt A.
TI  - The Roman Empire in context: historical and comparative perspectives 
T2  - The ancient world : comparative histories
SN  - 9781444390209
AV  - DG77 .R6712 2011eb
U1  - 937.06 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., Malden, MA
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Comparative civilization
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Rome
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - Cultuurgeschiedenis
KW  - gtt
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Romeinse rijk
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Introduction; Johann P. Arnason --; pt. I; Expansion and Transformation --; 2; From City-State to Empire: Rome in Comparative Perspective; Kurt A. Raaflaub --; 3; The Transition from Republic to Principate: Loss of Legitimacy, Revolution, and Acceptance; Egon Flaig --; 4; Strong and Weak Regimes: Comparing the Roman Principate and the Medieval Crown of Aragon; J.E. Lendon --; pt. II; Late Antiquity: Division, Transformation, and Continuity --; 5; The Background to the Third-Century Crisis of the Roman Empire; Adam Ziolkowski --; 6; The End of Sacrifice: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity; Guy G Stroumsa --; 7; Contextualizing Late Antiquity: The First Millennium; Garth Fowden --; pt. III; Destinies of the Roman Legacy --; 8; The Franks: Rome's Heirs in the West; Matthias Becher --; 9; The End of Rome? The Transformation of the Eastern Empire in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE; John Haldon --; 10; The First Islamic Empire; Chase F. Robinson --; pt. IV; Comparative Perspectives --; 11; From City-State to Empire: The Case of Assyria; Mario Liverani --; 12; China's Early Empires: The Authority and Means of Government; Michael Loewe --; 13; The Legs of the Throne: Kings, Elites, and Subjects in Sasanian Iran; Scott McDonough --; 14; The King of Kings: Universal Hegemony, Imperial Power, and a New Comparative History of Rome; Peter Fibiger Bang --; pt. V; Conceptual and Theoretical Reflections --; 15; The Roman Phenomenon: State, Empire, and Civilization; Johann P. Arnason --; 16; Roman-European Continuities: Conceptual and Historical Questions; Peter Wagner
N2  - Through a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire's role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome's significance within comparative studies.: Fills a gap in comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire's role and achievement; Features contributions from more than a dozen distinguished scholars from around the world; Explores the relevance of important comparativist themes of state, empire, and civilization to ancient Rome
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444390186
ER  -