Making the Middle Republic
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (US) |
| ISBN-13 | 9781009327978 |
| Open Library | OL29333310W |
| Total publications | 5 |
| Coverage period | 2023 - 2023 |
| Language | EN |
| Impact factor | 1 |
During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Rural landscapes and urban spaces throughout Latium saw intensified use amidst novel principles of land management, animal husbandry, and architectural design. This book offers fresh perspectives on these transformations by embracing a wide range of approaches to Middle Republican history. Chapters take up topics and methods ranging from fiscal sociology, bioarchaeology, comparative slaveries, field survey, art and architectural history, numismatics, elite mobility, and beyond. An emphasis is placed on how developments in this period reshaped not only Rome, but also other Latin and Italian societies in complex and often multilinear ways. The volume promotes the Middle Republic as a period whose full dynamism is best appreciated at the intersection of diverse lines of inquiry.
Becoming Political
This chapter seeks to consider the legal background and precedents for the developments of the Middle Republic, with a specific focus on the Twelve Tables. By thinking through what the Twelve Tables imply about the conditions of later sixth- and fifth-century Rome we can arrive at a clearer understanding of the fourth century, and a picture of considerable and long-term intellectual sophistication in Central Italy.
No Longer Archaic, Not Yet Hellenistic
The chapter aims to illustrate the transformations that took place in the urban centers of Latium vetus during the 4th and 3th centuries BCE, the chronological period that includes the last, turbulent decades of the political autonomy of the cities of Latium and that sees, after the dissolution of the Latin League, the constitutional redefinition of the subjected communities and their inclusion in the political, military, and economic dynamics of…
Italian Descent in Middle Republican Roman Magistrates
The record for the consular fasti of the Mid-Republic, as one of our more reliable sources for the period, offers valuable insight into who was in power at a crucial time for the transition of Rome from city-state to territorial empire. It has been recognized at least since Münzer that many family names in the lists were not originally from Rome, but instead from other Italian communities. The chapter attempts to take systematic stock of this imp…
Making the Middle Republic
During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Rural landscapes and urban spaces throughout Latium saw intensified use amidst novel principles of land management, animal husbandry, and architectural design. This book offers fresh perspectives on these transformations by embracing a w…
Building up Slaveries in Ancient Italy and the Central Sudan
This chapter considers the early stages of Roman slavery in Italy from a comparative perspective, drawing above all on the experience of slavery in the Sokoto caliphate in the nineteenth-century Sudan.
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Becoming Political
This chapter seeks to consider the legal background and precedents for the developments of the Middle Republic, with a specific focus on the Twelve Tables. By thinking through what the Twelve Tables imply about the conditions of later sixth- and fifth-century Rome we can arrive at a clearer understanding of the fourth century, and a picture of considerable and long-term intellectual sophistication in Central Italy.
No Longer Archaic, Not Yet Hellenistic
The chapter aims to illustrate the transformations that took place in the urban centers of Latium vetus during the 4th and 3th centuries BCE, the chronological period that includes the last, turbulent decades of the political autonomy of the cities of Latium and that sees, after the dissolution of the Latin League, the constitutional redefinition of the subjected communities and their inclusion in the political, military, and economic dynamics of…
Italian Descent in Middle Republican Roman Magistrates
The record for the consular fasti of the Mid-Republic, as one of our more reliable sources for the period, offers valuable insight into who was in power at a crucial time for the transition of Rome from city-state to territorial empire. It has been recognized at least since Münzer that many family names in the lists were not originally from Rome, but instead from other Italian communities. The chapter attempts to take systematic stock of this imp…
Making the Middle Republic
During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Rural landscapes and urban spaces throughout Latium saw intensified use amidst novel principles of land management, animal husbandry, and architectural design. This book offers fresh perspectives on these transformations by embracing a w…
Building up Slaveries in Ancient Italy and the Central Sudan
This chapter considers the early stages of Roman slavery in Italy from a comparative perspective, drawing above all on the experience of slavery in the Sokoto caliphate in the nineteenth-century Sudan.