Narratives of the Roman Empire: How to Make Rome With Words and Rituals - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3111706931 ISBN 13 : 9783111706931

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2025

Synopsis

Since Republican times, Rome has fostered ideological constructs aimed at justifying its conquest and domination of the Mediterranean. This process gathered steam in the imperial age, as the contributions of the conquered regions gradually assimilated into the empire.
Words and rituals represented the empire not as the Roman domination of conquered nations, but as a community capable of integrating the provincials. This was not merely an ideological construct: the new community was indeed a result of the integration of different peoples and their political, cultural and religious traditions.
This idea of empire was present at very different levels: documents directly emanating from the emperors and all kinds of literature. Rites also contributed to shaping imperial discourse, laying firm ideological foundations for the symbolic construction of the community and disseminating the imperial discourse among its members.
Words and rituals contributed to creating new mindsets that progressively supplemented the old political and social mores and customs with a new 'narrative of empire', and vice versa: narratives contributed to shaping the very idea of empire.

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À propos de l'auteur

Fernando Lozano, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain; Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain; Elena Muñiz Grijalvo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3111706931
• ISBN 13: 9783111706931
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 385
• Éditeur: Lozano Fernando, Cortés Copete Juan Manuel, Muñiz-Grijalvo Elena
• Coordonnées du fabricant: De Gruyter; https://blog.degruyter.com; ; Genthiner Stra?e 13; Berlin; 10785; Allemagne