This volume examines the dynamic concept and changing reality of Roman citizenship from the perspective of the provinces in Rome?s vast, multi-ethnic empire, both before and after Caracalla?s grant of universal citizenship in 212 CE. In Greek communities, and in Jewish and Chris…
Addressing the problem of the relationship between pagans and Christians cannot be separated from assessing the nature of the relationship that linked or divided the members of two very different religions. Te model of conflict has been disseminated by the Hungarian scholar Andr…
"When did Late Antiquity actually end? Peter Brown, who has done so much to define the field, once replied: 'always later than you think'. This book takes stock of this insight and, in continual conversation with Peter Brown's work, applies it to ever wider social and geopolitic…
Our understanding of Late Antiquity can be transformed by the non-dogmatic application of social theory to more traditional evidence when studying major social conflicts in the Eastern Roman Empire, not least under the Emperor Justinian (527-565). 'Social Conflict in the Age of …
"In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. Jack Tannous argues that key to understanding …
In recent decades there have been major shifts in the understanding of Christian identity. What does characterize a Christian these days? What unites and sets them apart from the dominant patterns of social and political understanding? How is this identity forged and can it be '…
"What terms would early 'Christians' have used when they addressed one another? What would they have called each other? Would they have said, 'Are you a Christian?' or 'Are you a disciple?' or Are you a believer?' How would various 'Christian' groups have answered the question '…