Main entry:

Ando, Clifford, 1969-

Title & Author:

Imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the Roman Empire / Clifford Ando.

Publication:

London : University of California Press, ©2000.

Description:

xxi, 494 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Classics and contemporary thought ; ; 6

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: Communis Patria -- PART 1. ANCIENT AND MODERN CONTEXTS -- Ideology in the Roman Empire -- The Roman Achievement in Ancient Thought -- PART 2. CONSENSUS AND COMMUNICATION -- The Communicative Actions of the Roman Government -- Consensus in Theory and Practice -- The Creation of Consensus -- Images of Emperor and Empire -- PART 3. FROM IMPERIUM TO PATRIA -- Orbis Terrarum and Orbis Romanus -- The King Is a Body Politick ... for that a Body Politique Never Dieth -- Conclusion: Singulare et Unicum Imperium.

Summary:

"Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power, but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified. This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando investigates the mechanisms that sustained this conversation, explores its contribution to the legitimization of Roman power, and reveals as its product the provincial absorption of the forms and content of Roman political and legal discourse." "Ando brings to bear a magisterial command of Roman historical sources; he marshals papyrological, numismatic, artistic, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, as well as historical and literary. Throughout, his sophisticated and subtle reading is informed by current thinking on social formation by theorists such as Max Weber, Jurgen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu." "As he illuminates the relationship between the imperial government and the empire's provinces, Ando deepens our understanding of one of the most striking phenomena in the history of government."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

0520220676 (hbk.)
9780520220676 (hbk.)

Subject:

Political stability Rome.
Roman provinces Administration.
Stabilité politique Rome.
Cultural policy Influence.
Political stability.
Provinz
Loyalität
Politische Kommunikation
Provinzialverwaltung
Centralisme.
Provincies.
Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Influnce.
Allegiance Rome.
Rome Cultural policy Influence.
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Classics and contemporary thought ; ; 6.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217045
Call No.: DG59.A2 A6 2000
Status: Available