Peter Fibiger Bang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Fibiger Bang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Fibiger |
| FAMILY NAME | Bang |
| SIGNATURE | BANG P F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6028-0911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Roman Empire and World History
How do we fit the Roman Empire into world history? Too often the empire has simply been conceived of in terms of the West. But Rome was too big to be squeezed into a purely European model; her empire bestrode three continents. Peter Fibiger Bang develops a radical new world history framework for the Roman Empire, presenting it as part of an Afro-Eurasian arena of grand empires that dominated the shape of history before the forces of globalization…
Roman Empire and World History
Universal Empire
Bang, Peter F., and Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, eds., Universal Empire : A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
The Oxford World History of Empire
The Oxford World History of Empire, Vol.1: The Imperial Experience is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and world-historical synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through five millennia. The broad range of perspectives includes: scale, world systems and geopolitics, military organization, political economy and elite formation, mon…
Empire, Civilization, and Trade
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Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith. The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700. The Oxford History of Medieval Europe. Oxford
Platonism
This paper explores the reception of Gellner's historical sociology among students of pre-modern societies and the Greco-Roman world in particular and asks how his thought is still relevant to the field. This involves discussion of recent trends in world history as well as new comparative work on ancient state and elite formation. A main contention of the paper is that Gellner's sociological reading of Plato and his politics may be one of the mos…
The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Abstract This Handbook offers a comprehensive survey of ancient state formation in western Eurasia and North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers to a wide variety of systems spanning 4,000 years, from the earliest known states in world history to the Roman Empire and its successors. The book seeks to understand the inner workings of these states by focusing on key issues: political and military power, mechanisms of cooperation, coercion, a…
Prologue
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this book, which is about the history of state formation in ancient North Africa and western Eurasia. The book aims to bridge the disciplinary gap between the study of the ancient Near East and the study of the ancient Mediterranean, exploring various factors that influenced state formation, including ideologies, political power, cooperation, exploitation, and military power. The areas covered in t…
The Roman Empire IIThe Monarchy
This chapter examines the transformation of the Roman Empire from a republican to a monarchy system of government, explaining that the republican system was replaced because its political institutions were too small to manage the growing social power brought about by military expansionism. It discusses how the first emperor Augustus consolidated his monarchy by creating an institutional infrastructure that sought to regularize the retirement of t…
Markets, Roman
As with most pre‐industrial trade, Roman commercial life tended to follow a periodic or seasonal pattern.
Predation
Then the state was strong and seasoned in the arts of war and peace. (Livy 1.21: 6) Rape – the rape or rather abduction of the Sabine women – is one of the most famous and popular tales of Roman history. It belongs among the rich stock of founding myths with which Roman historians embellished the distant origins of their city and explained the character of its social institutions. After Romulus had founded the city and killed his impudent brother…
‘Elephant of India’
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Between Aśoka and Antiochos
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Universal Empire
The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order. As such it is an exercise in comparative world history combining a multiplicity of approaches, from anci…
The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean offers a comprehensive survey of ancient state formation in western Eurasia and North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers to a wide variety of systems spanning 4,000 years, from the earliest known states in world history to the Roman Empire and its immediate successors. They seek to understand the inner workings of these states by focusing on key issues: political …
Tributary Empires in Global History
Figures and Maps Preface Notes on Contributors Tributary Empires: Towards a Global and Comparative History P.F.Bang & C.A.Bayly PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF EMPIRE Religion, Liberalism and Empires: British Historians and their Indian Critics in the Nineteenth Century C.A.Bayly Orientalism and Classicism: the British-Roman Empire of Lord Bryce and his Italian Critics F.De Donno The New Order and the Fate of the Old: The Historiographical Constructi…
Tributary Empires — Towards a Global and Comparative History
It was Friday and the month was April, Anno Domini 2005, when these words sounded from the platform in front of St Peter’s. Myriads of faithful mourners had massed into Rome and now crowded the Square and the broad avenues leading up to the Vatican to participate in the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Unprecedented numbers were listening in on radio or watching television broadcasts around the globe. Spoken in sombre, dignified, yet slightly artifi…
Court And State In The Roman Empire—Domestication And Tradition In Comparative Perspective
One of the main charges brought against Alexander by posterity was that he had allowed himself to be lured by the splendour and rituals of the Persian court and had forgotten about his Greek and Macedonian roots. The rise of an imperial court entailed, in Elias' terms, a domestication and disciplining of the old senatorial, republican elite. The Roman aristocracy had not primarily been defined by hereditary titles and rights, but through office-h…
Imperial Ecumene and Polyethnicity
The ancient Mediterranean was a complex patchwork of diverse ethnic groups and cultures. Local or regional brands of knowledge, culture, and power had been subsumed under an imperial cultural and political umbrella of much wider geographical extent. Roman government suffered from no illusions that it could do without the forms of locally based power represented by diverse ethnic groups and instead push to create a homogeneous ‘national’ identity …
The Ancient Economy and New Institutional Economics
Udgivelsesdato: autumn
Trade and Empire In Search of Organizing Concepts for the Roman Economy
The greatness of a state, and the happiness of its subjects ... are commonly allowed to be inseparable with regard to commerce; and as private men receive greater security, in the possession of their trade and riches, from the power of the public, so the public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men. David Hume And if our rule in measuring degrees of politeness and civilization is to be taken from hen…
Rome and the Comparative Study of Tributary Empires
This paper seeks to bring the separate fields of Roman, Mughal and to some extent, Chinese and Ottoman studies into dialogue. It argues that archaic or tributary empires have much in common and could usefully be made the subject of cross-disciplinary comparisons. Dis cussion is centred on exploring problems in our understanding of patrimonial authority and of the complex trading systems arising in connection with these empires. The paper argues t…
Introduction
Trade and Empire In Search of Organizing Concepts for the Roman Economy
The greatness of a state, and the happiness of its subjects ... are commonly allowed to be inseparable with regard to commerce; and as private men receive greater security, in the possession of their trade and riches, from the power of the public, so the public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men. David Hume And if our rule in measuring degrees of politeness and civilization is to be taken from hen…
Rome and the Comparative Study of Tributary Empires
This paper seeks to bring the separate fields of Roman, Mughal and to some extent, Chinese and Ottoman studies into dialogue. It argues that archaic or tributary empires have much in common and could usefully be made the subject of cross-disciplinary comparisons. Dis cussion is centred on exploring problems in our understanding of patrimonial authority and of the complex trading systems arising in connection with these empires. The paper argues t…
The Oxford World History of Empire
The Oxford World History of Empire, Vol.1: The Imperial Experience is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and world-historical synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through five millennia. The broad range of perspectives includes: scale, world systems and geopolitics, military organization, political economy and elite formation, mon…
Universal Empire
Bang, Peter F., and Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, eds., Universal Empire : A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Introduction
The Ancient Economy and New Institutional Economics
Udgivelsesdato: autumn
Rome and the Comparative Study of Tributary Empires
This paper seeks to bring the separate fields of Roman, Mughal and to some extent, Chinese and Ottoman studies into dialogue. It argues that archaic or tributary empires have much in common and could usefully be made the subject of cross-disciplinary comparisons. Dis cussion is centred on exploring problems in our understanding of patrimonial authority and of the complex trading systems arising in connection with these empires. The paper argues t…
Introduction
Trade and Empire In Search of Organizing Concepts for the Roman Economy
The greatness of a state, and the happiness of its subjects ... are commonly allowed to be inseparable with regard to commerce; and as private men receive greater security, in the possession of their trade and riches, from the power of the public, so the public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men. David Hume And if our rule in measuring degrees of politeness and civilization is to be taken from hen…
The Ancient Economy and New Institutional Economics
Udgivelsesdato: autumn
Imperial Ecumene and Polyethnicity
The ancient Mediterranean was a complex patchwork of diverse ethnic groups and cultures. Local or regional brands of knowledge, culture, and power had been subsumed under an imperial cultural and political umbrella of much wider geographical extent. Roman government suffered from no illusions that it could do without the forms of locally based power represented by diverse ethnic groups and instead push to create a homogeneous ‘national’ identity …
Tributary Empires in Global History
Figures and Maps Preface Notes on Contributors Tributary Empires: Towards a Global and Comparative History P.F.Bang & C.A.Bayly PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF EMPIRE Religion, Liberalism and Empires: British Historians and their Indian Critics in the Nineteenth Century C.A.Bayly Orientalism and Classicism: the British-Roman Empire of Lord Bryce and his Italian Critics F.De Donno The New Order and the Fate of the Old: The Historiographical Constructi…
Tributary Empires — Towards a Global and Comparative History
It was Friday and the month was April, Anno Domini 2005, when these words sounded from the platform in front of St Peter’s. Myriads of faithful mourners had massed into Rome and now crowded the Square and the broad avenues leading up to the Vatican to participate in the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Unprecedented numbers were listening in on radio or watching television broadcasts around the globe. Spoken in sombre, dignified, yet slightly artifi…
Court And State In The Roman Empire—Domestication And Tradition In Comparative Perspective
One of the main charges brought against Alexander by posterity was that he had allowed himself to be lured by the splendour and rituals of the Persian court and had forgotten about his Greek and Macedonian roots. The rise of an imperial court entailed, in Elias' terms, a domestication and disciplining of the old senatorial, republican elite. The Roman aristocracy had not primarily been defined by hereditary titles and rights, but through office-h…
Markets, Roman
As with most pre‐industrial trade, Roman commercial life tended to follow a periodic or seasonal pattern.
Predation
Then the state was strong and seasoned in the arts of war and peace. (Livy 1.21: 6) Rape – the rape or rather abduction of the Sabine women – is one of the most famous and popular tales of Roman history. It belongs among the rich stock of founding myths with which Roman historians embellished the distant origins of their city and explained the character of its social institutions. After Romulus had founded the city and killed his impudent brother…
‘Elephant of India’
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Between Aśoka and Antiochos
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Universal Empire
The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order. As such it is an exercise in comparative world history combining a multiplicity of approaches, from anci…
The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean offers a comprehensive survey of ancient state formation in western Eurasia and North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers to a wide variety of systems spanning 4,000 years, from the earliest known states in world history to the Roman Empire and its immediate successors. They seek to understand the inner workings of these states by focusing on key issues: political …
The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Abstract This Handbook offers a comprehensive survey of ancient state formation in western Eurasia and North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers to a wide variety of systems spanning 4,000 years, from the earliest known states in world history to the Roman Empire and its successors. The book seeks to understand the inner workings of these states by focusing on key issues: political and military power, mechanisms of cooperation, coercion, a…
Prologue
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this book, which is about the history of state formation in ancient North Africa and western Eurasia. The book aims to bridge the disciplinary gap between the study of the ancient Near East and the study of the ancient Mediterranean, exploring various factors that influenced state formation, including ideologies, political power, cooperation, exploitation, and military power. The areas covered in t…
The Roman Empire IIThe Monarchy
This chapter examines the transformation of the Roman Empire from a republican to a monarchy system of government, explaining that the republican system was replaced because its political institutions were too small to manage the growing social power brought about by military expansionism. It discusses how the first emperor Augustus consolidated his monarchy by creating an institutional infrastructure that sought to regularize the retirement of t…
Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith. The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700. The Oxford History of Medieval Europe. Oxford
Platonism
This paper explores the reception of Gellner's historical sociology among students of pre-modern societies and the Greco-Roman world in particular and asks how his thought is still relevant to the field. This involves discussion of recent trends in world history as well as new comparative work on ancient state and elite formation. A main contention of the paper is that Gellner's sociological reading of Plato and his politics may be one of the mos…
Empire, Civilization, and Trade
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Oxford World History of Empire
The Oxford World History of Empire, Vol.1: The Imperial Experience is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and world-historical synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through five millennia. The broad range of perspectives includes: scale, world systems and geopolitics, military organization, political economy and elite formation, mon…
Universal Empire
Bang, Peter F., and Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, eds., Universal Empire : A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
The Roman Empire and World History
How do we fit the Roman Empire into world history? Too often the empire has simply been conceived of in terms of the West. But Rome was too big to be squeezed into a purely European model; her empire bestrode three continents. Peter Fibiger Bang develops a radical new world history framework for the Roman Empire, presenting it as part of an Afro-Eurasian arena of grand empires that dominated the shape of history before the forces of globalization…
Roman Empire and World History
History (18 works) · Ancient history (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Empire (12 works) · Classics (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Art (6 works)