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Cover -- INTRODUCTION: Who Ruled the Roman Empire? -- ONE: Emperors and the Senate -- TWO: Demonstrations of Wealth and Power -- THREE: Life at Court -- FOUR: Patrician Men -- FIVE: Patrician Women -- SIX: Children of the Ruling Class -- SEVEN: Risks and Rewards -- Glossary -- Further Information -- Source Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Materialising the Roman Empire defines an innovative research agenda for Roman archaeology, highlighting the diverse ways in which the Empire was made materially tangible in the lives of its inhabitants. The volume explores how material culture was integral to the processes of imperialism, both as the Empire grew, and as it fragmented, and in doing so provides up-to-date overviews of major topics in Roman archaeology.

Each chapter offers a critical overview of a major field within the archaeology of the Roman Empire. The book's authors explore the distinctive contribution that archaeology and the study of material culture can make to our understanding of the key institutions and fields of activity in the Roman Empire. The initial chapters address major technologies which, at first glance, appear to be mechanisms of integration across the Roman Empire: roads, writing and coinage. The focus then shifts to analysis of key social structures oriented around material forms and activities found all over the Roman world, such as trade, urbanism, slavery, craft production and frontiers. Finally, the book extends to more abstract dimensions of the Roman world: art, empire, religion and ideology, in which the significant themes remain the dynamics of power and influence. The whole builds towards a broad exploration of the nature of imperial power and the inter-connections that stimulated new community identities and created new social divisions.

Cover -- INTRODUCTION: The Foundations of the Roman Empire -- ONE: Cities Great and Small -- TWO: The Urban Lifestyle -- THREE: Hard at Work -- FOUR: City Men -- FIVE: City Women -- SIX: Childhood in the City -- SEVEN: Leisure Pursuits -- EIGHT: Crime and Danger -- Glossary -- Further Information -- Source Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The fourth and fifth centuries AD gave rise to a particular phenomenon in the Roman Empire: the colonate. The colonate involved the fiscal regulation of a relationship of surety between landowners and farmers in the later Roman Empire and played a major role in agrarian and social relations, with implications for these farmers' freedom of movement and transmission of status. This study provides a clear and comprehensive reassessment of the legal aspects of the phenomenon, embedding them as far as possible in their social and economic contexts. As well as taking the innovative approach of working retrogradely, or backwards through time, the volume provides a thorough assessment of two critical sources, the Theodosian and Justinian Codes, and will therefore be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Roman law and the agricultural and social history of late antiquity.

Spanning the time from the 1st century BCE to the 400s CE, this volume highlights the multifaceted interactions between Greco-Roman historiographical texts and their readers. Its contributions focus on the testimonies offered by ancient readers themselves and they engage in close readings of the historiographical works to explore how these texts involve their audiences and stimulate a fascinating range of intellectual and affective reactions.

A comprehensive reassessment of the legal aspects of the colonate, situating the phenomenon within its socio-economic context. It examines afresh two critical sources, the Theodosian and Justinian Codes, and is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Roman law and the agricultural and social history of late antiquity.

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Civic Patronage in the Late Republic -- Augustus and Civic Patronage -- Civic Patronage in the Principate -- Civic Patronage in the Verrines -- Civic Patronage in Roman Law -- Civic Patronage in the Epigraphical Record -- Patronage and the Patrons of Canusium: A Case Study -- Reflections on the Evolution of Civic Patronage -- Select Bibliography -- Indexes.

"A comprehensive reassessment of the legal aspects of the colonate, situating the phenomenon within its socio-economic context. It examines afresh two critical sources, the Theodosian and Justinian Codes, and is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Roman law and the agricultural and social history of late antiquity"--