Political communication in the Roman world /

This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. It draws upon social sciences and the current trend for the historical study of political communication. The book tackles three main problems: What constitutes political communication in the Roman world? In what...

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Other Authors: Rosillo López, Cristina.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Series: Impact of Empire 27.
Impact of Empire Online, ISBN: 9789004411142.

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Call Number: DG211

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Summary:This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. It draws upon social sciences and the current trend for the historical study of political communication. The book tackles three main problems: What constitutes political communication in the Roman world? In what ways could information be transmitted and represented? What mechanisms made political communication successful or unsuccessful? This edited volume covers questions like speech and mechanisms of political communication, political communication at a distance, bottom-up communication, failure of communication and representation of political communication. It will be of help to specialists in the Roman world, but also to students and researchers of political sciences, and specialists of political communication in pre-industrial times.
Item Description:Papers from a conference held in Seville in 2015.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004350847
ISSN:1572-0500 ;
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