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Despite Roman claims to have brought peace, unrest was widespread in the Roman empire. Revolts, protests and piracy were common occurrences. How did contemporaries relate to and make sense of such phenomena? This volume gathers eleven contributions by specialists in the various literatures and modes of thinking that flourished in the empire between the second century BCE and the fifth century CE - including Graeco-Roman historiography and philosophy, Jewish prophecy, Christian apology and the writings of the Tannaitic rabbis - to investigate these questions. Each contribution analyses the discourses by which the diverse authors of these texts understood instances of unrest. Together the contributions expand our understanding of the varied politics that pervaded the Roman empire. They highlight the intellectual labour at every level of society that went to (re)making this imperial formation throughout its long history.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Unrest in the Roman Empire: Discourse and Politics
- 2. Tell Me How I Conquered You: Theorizing Accommodation and Unrest in the Book of Daniel
- 3. The Roman Language of Civil War: From Internal War and Stasis to Bellum Civile
- 4. Struggles to Define and Counter‐Define Unrest in the Cities of the Early Roman East
- 5. Josephus’s Multilayered Discourse on the Judean Revolt against Rome
- 6. Narrating Mutiny: Towards a Discursive History of Military Unrest
- 7. Aporetic Unrest: Reimagining Materialism and Empire in Appian
- 8. From War to Criminality: The Roman Discourse of Provincial Revolt
- 9. Usurpers, Bandits and Barbarians: Narratives of Provincial Unrest in the Fourth Century
- 10. Towards a Discursive History of Christian Persecution
- 11. Violent Histories: Women and Unrest from Roman to Late Roman Historiography
- 12. Roman War, Rabbinic Law, and Provincial Sovereigntism
- Index
- Contributors
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