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    News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire

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    Author(s)
    Graham, Mark W.
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    100886
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Prior to the third century A.D., two broad Roman conceptions of frontiers proliferated and competed: an imperial ideology of rule without limit coexisted with very real and pragmatic attempts to define and defend imperial frontiers. But from about A.D. 250-500, there was a basic shift in mentality, as news from and about frontiers began to portray a more defined Roman world—a world with limits—allowing a new understanding of frontiers as territorial and not just as divisions of people. This concept, previously unknown in the ancient world, brought with it a new consciousness, which soon spread to cosmology, geography, myth, sacred texts, and prophecy. The "frontier consciousness" produced a unified sense of Roman identity that transcended local identities and social boundaries throughout the later Empire. Approaching Roman frontiers with the aid of media studies as well as anthropological and sociological methodologies, Mark W. Graham chronicles and documents this significant transition in ancient thought, which coincided with, but was not necessarily dependent on, the Christianization of the Roman world.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30230
    Keywords
    Classics; Ammianus Marcellinus; Late antiquity; Libanius; Limes; Roman Empire; Roman Republic; Worldview
    DOI
    10.1353/book.66756
    ISBN
    9780472115624
    OCN
    607270398
    Publisher
    University of Michigan Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.press.umich.edu/
    Publication date and place
    Ann Arbor, 2006-11-27
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - 100886 - KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Ammianus Marcellinus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammianus_Marcellinus; Late antiquity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_antiquity; Libanius - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libanius; Limes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes; Roman Empire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire; Roman Republic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic; Worldview - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldview
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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