Performing Justice in the Later Roman Empire
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- Hardcover
164 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
Performing Justice in the Later Roman Empire: Power, Interaction, and Social Practices
In the Later Roman Empire (AD 300–650), power seems to manifest itself mostly through legislation, bureaucracy, and an increasingly distant emperor. This book focuses instead on personal interaction as crucial to the exercise of power.
It studies four social practices (petitions, parrhesia, intercession, and collective action) to show how they are much more dynamic than often assumed. Thes…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009603669 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009603663 |
| Author: | Peter Van Nuffelen |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 164 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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About The Author
Peter Van Nuffelen
Peter Van Nuffelen is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University. He has published widely on ancient religions and late antiquity, including The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300–620) (Cambridge, 2020) and The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius (Cambridge, 2024), both with Lieve Van Hoof. He is the recipient of two ERC grants, and he currently directs an Advanced Grant entitled ‘New Polities: Political Thought in the First Millennium.’
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