News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire

Prior to the third century A.D., two broad Roman conceptions of frontiers proliferated and competed: an imperial ideology of rule without limit coexisted with very real and pragmatic attempts to define and defend imperial frontiers. But from about A.D. 250-500, there was a basic shift in mentality,...

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Main Author: Graham, Mark W. (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 20061127
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