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Policing the Roman Empire - Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order (Hardcover)
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Policing the Roman Empire - Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order (Hardcover)
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Historians often regard the police as a modern development, and
indeed, many pre-modern societies had no such institution. Most
recent scholarship has claimed that Roman society relied on kinship
networks or community self-regulation as a means of conflict
resolution and social control. This model, according to Christopher
Fuhrmann, fails to properly account for the imperial-era evidence,
which argues in fact for an expansion of state-sponsored policing
activities in the first three centuries of the Common Era. Drawing
on a wide variety of source material--from art, archaeology,
administrative documents, Egyptian papyri, laws, Jewish and
Christian religious texts, and ancient narratives--Policing the
Roman Empire provides a comprehensive overview of Roman imperial
policing practices with chapters devoted to fugitive slave hunting,
the pivotal role of Augustus, the expansion of policing under his
successors, and communities lacking soldier-police that were forced
to rely on self-help or civilian police.
Rather than merely cataloguing references to police, this study
sets policing in the broader context of Roman attitudes towards
power, public order, and administration. Fuhrmann argues that a
broad range of groups understood the potential value of police,
from the emperors to the peasantry. Years of different police
initiatives coalesced into an uneven patchwork of police
institutions that were not always coordinated, effective, or
upright. But the end result was a new means by which the Roman
state--more ambitious than often supposed--could seek to control
the lives of its subjects, as in the imperial persecutions of
Christians.
The first synoptic analysis of Roman policing in over a hundred
years, and the first ever in English, Policing the Roman Empire
will be of great interest to scholars and students of classics,
history, law, and religion.
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