Frontiers of the Roman Empire = Frontières de l'Empire Romain /
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The North Sea and Channel coasts form the geographic frontier of the Roman Empire with the sea - the edge of the then known world. This border represents a page in military maritime history, but its coasts, in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, contain archaeological sites of high heritage value that deserve a large audience.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License"--Title page verso. :
1 online resource (96 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803273051 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity : Images and Narratives /
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"What are the interrelationships between the language of rhetoric and the code of imperial images, from Constantine to Theodosius? How are imperial images shaped by the fact that they were produced and promoted at the behest of the emperor? Nine contributors from Spain, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will guide the reader about these issues by analyzing how imperial power was articulated and manipulated by means of literary strategies and iconographic programmes. The authors scrutinize representations from Constantine to Julian and from the Valentinians to Theodosius by considering material culture and texts as interconnected sources that engaged with and reacted to each other"--
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004446922
9789004446908
The impact of imperial Rome on religions, ritual, and religious life in the Roman Empire : proceedings of the Fifth International Network, Münster, June 30-July 4, 2004 /
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This volume presents the proceedings of the fifth workshop of the international thematic network ,Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C. - A.D. 476, and, under the chairmanship of Lukas de Blois and Olivier Hekster (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands), brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists on Roman law from some 28 European and North American universities. The fifth volume focuses on the impact of imperial Rome on religions, ritual and religious life in the Roman Empire. The following topics are treated: connections between Roman expansion and religion, the imperial impact on local cults, cultic personnel (priests, priestesses and bishops), and the divinity of Roman Emperors.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047411345