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Imperial Identities in the Roman World (Hardcover)
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In recent years, the debate on Romanisation has often been framed
in terms of identity. Discussions have concentrated on how the
expansion of empire impacted on the constructed or self-ascribed
sense of belonging of its inhabitants, and just how the interaction
between local identities and Roman ideology and practices may have
led to a multicultural empire has been a central research focus.
This volume challenges this perspective by drawing attention to the
processes of identity formation that contributed to an imperial
identity, a sense of belonging to the political, social, cultural
and religious structures of the Empire. Instead of concentrating on
politics and imperial administration, the volume studies the
manifold ways in which people were ritually engaged in producing,
consuming, organising, believing and worshipping that fitted the
(changing) realities of empire. It focuses on how individuals and
groups tried to do things 'the right way', i.e., the Greco-Roman
imperial way. Given the deep cultural entrenchment of ritualistic
practices, an imperial identity firmly grounded in such practices
might well have been instrumental, not just to the long-lasting
stability of the Roman imperial order, but also to the persistence
of its ideals well into (Christian) Late Antiquity and post-Roman
times.
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