Roman Perspectives
Studies in the Social, Political and Cultural History of the First to Fifth Centuries

John Matthews (Author)

9781905125395

Hardback, published 9 April 2010

406 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.873 kg

The fifteen papers in this volume discuss issues of Roman social, cultural and political history from the foundation of the Principate to the age of barbarian settlements of the west. Working imaginatively from within the diverse evidence, they show the institutional continuity of the Roman empire between its early and later periods, and reveal the roots of political behaviour in social practice. Five of the papers, including three of the most substantial, are previously unpublished; others have appeared in collections which are now difficult to find. The author has edited the whole to bring out thematic connections as well as for consistency of presentation.