The Easte Roman Empire Under the Severans: Old Connections, New Beginnings?

by: Matthaus Heil (Editor),Julia Hoffmann-salz (Editor),Holger Wienholz (Editor)&0more

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co

Publication Date: 2024/6/17

Language: English

Print Length: 368 pages

ISBN-10: 3525302517

ISBN-13: 9783525302514

Book Description

The year of the four emperors in AD 193 shows the cosmopolitan interconnectedness of the Roman Empire, yet scholarship has long framed the Severan dynasty in a narrative of descent stressing their North African and in particular their Syrian origins. The contributions of this volume question this conventional approach and instead examine more closely actual Severan policy in the Near East to detect potential local connections that determined this policy as well as how local communities and elites reacted to it. The volume thus explores new beginnings and old connections in the Roman Near East.

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The year of the four emperors in AD 193 shows the cosmopolitan interconnectedness of the Roman Empire, yet scholarship has long framed the Severan dynasty in a narrative of descent stressing their North African and in particular their Syrian origins. The contributions of this volume question this conventional approach and instead examine more closely actual Severan policy in the Near East to detect potential local connections that determined this policy as well as how local communities and elites reacted to it. The volume thus explores new beginnings and old connections in the Roman Near East.