Changes in the Roman Empire by Ramsay Macmullen
Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A.D. 50 and 450. Here, for example, the author applies statistical analysis to broad groups of people on matters ranging from justice through medicine to language. In so doing he is able to substantiate general statements about routines in ordinary people's behavior and to detect within these routines the very changes that constitute history. Such analysis also shows how this era benefits from the same historiographical approaches that have so successfully elucidated sociocultural phenomena in other periods.
Drawing from statistical analysis and many other historical approaches, these essays on popular mores in the Roman Empire cover such topics as language and art, acculturation, thought and religion, sex and gender, cruelty and slavery, and aspects of class and power relations. The author introduces the collection with several essays on historical method, as it pertains to the richness of documentation and variety to be found in the region and period chosen.
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The Star of Bethlehem
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Iolani; or, Tahiti as It Was
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Mandala Symbolism
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The Zen Poems of Ryokan
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Cinematernity
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Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572-1588
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The Horned Dinosaurs
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Scientific Management in Action
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Janacek's Operas
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Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris
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Pandora's Box
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Mussolini's Early Diplomacy
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Treatise on Critical Reason
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Three British Revolutions
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Meeting Needs
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Other Women
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Foreign Labor in Nazi Germany
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The Continuous Wave
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Lectures on the h-Cobordism Theorem
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Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns
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Bird of Passage
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Imagining War
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Approaching Hysteria
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Liberal Socialism
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The Art of Asking Questions
Ramsay MacMullen is Dunham Professor of Classics and History at Yale University. Among his several influential works is Paganism in the Roman Empire (1981).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691036014 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691036012 |
| Title | Changes in the Roman Empire |
| Author | Ramsay Macmullen |
| Series | Princeton Legacy Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1990-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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