Civic identity and civic participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages / edited by Cédric Brélaz and Els Rose.
Studies the continuities and discontinuities in the functioning of civic bodies in the late and post-Roman world. During the Ancient Greek and Roman eras, participation in political communities at the local level, and assertion of belonging to these communities, were among the fundamental principles...
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| Language: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium :
Brepols Publishers,
[2021]
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| Series: | Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages ;
v. 37. |
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| Physical Description: | 447 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction / Cédric Brélaz and Els Rose
- Part I. Local Communities, Citizenship, and Civic Participation in the Early Roman Empire (1st-3rd Century CE)
- Local Citizenship and Civic Participation in the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire / Clifford Ando
- Democracy, Citizenship(s), and 'Patriotism': Civic Practices and Discourses in the Greek Cities under Roman Rule / Cédric Brélaz
- Part II. Local Identities, Civic Government, and Popular Participation in Late Antiquity
- Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Constantinople / Anthony Kaldellis
- Social Status and Civic Participation in Early Byzantine Cities / Avshalom Laniado
- Informal Expressions of Popular Will in Late Roman Africa / Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira
- Urban Identities in Late Roman Italy / Pierfrancesco Porena
- Cities and Civic Identities in Late Roman and Visigothic Spain / Michael Kulikowski
- Part III. Rephrasing Citizenship
- Personal Identity in the Later Roman Empire / Ralph Mathisen
- A Relationship of Justice: Becoming the People in Late Antiquity / Peter Van Nuffelen
- Reconfiguring Civic Identity and Civic Participation in a Christianizing World: The Case of Sixth-Century Arles / Els Rose
- Legalizing Ethnicity: The Remaking of Citizenship in Post-Roman Gaul (6th-7th Centuries) / Stefan Esders and Helmut Reimitz
- Part IV. Expressions of Civic Identity in the Early Middle Ages
- Urban Populations in Early Islam: Self-Identification and Collective Representation / Mathieu Tillier
- Urban Culture in the Early Medieval West: The Case of the Episcopal Towns in the German Kingdom / Marco Mostert
- Elites and Urban Communities in Early Medieval Italy: Identities, Political Initiatives, and Ways of (Self-) Representation / Gianmarco De Angelis
- Citizenship and Contexts of Belonging: A Postscript / Claudia Rapp.