The historiography of the Later Roman Empire: from maximal state to minimal state, and back again

The paper analyses the conceptual models of state used by the scholarship of the later Roman Empire. The argument here developed is that it is possible to identify an oscillation between opposing conceptions of state, sometimes maximalist, sometimes minimalist, and that such conceptions have almost...

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Main Author: Uiran Gebara da Silva
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2017-11-01
Series:Revista de História
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/126047