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The Cambridge ancient history

I. E. S. Edwards (Editor), C. J. Gadd (Editor), N. G. L. Hammond (Editor), John Boardman (Editor), David M. Lewis (Editor), F. W. Walbank (Editor), A. E. Astin (Editor), J. A. Crook (Editor), A. W. Lintott (Editor), Elizabeth Rawson (Editor)
Over the past half century The Cambridge Ancient History has established itself as a definitive work of reference. The original edition was published in twelve text volumes between 1924 and 1939. Publication of the new edition began in 1970. Every volume of the old edition has been totally re-thought and re-written with new text, maps, illustrations and bibliographies. Some volumes have had to be expanded into two or more parts and the series has been extended by two extra volumes (XIII and XIV) to cover events up to AD 600, bringing the total number of volumes in the set to fourteen. Existing plates to the volumes are available separately. *Profusely illustrated with maps, drawings and tables. *Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East from prehistoric times to AD 600 by an international cast of editors and contributors
Print Book, English, 1970
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1970
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14 volumes in 20 : illustrations, maps (some color), plans ; 24 cm.
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List of maps
xi
List of text-figures
xii
Prefacexiii
PART I NARRATIVE
The Severan dynasty
1(27)
Brian Campbell
The background and accession of Septimius Severus
1(3)
Civil and foreign wars
4(5)
Severus, the army and the senate
9(6)
Caracalla
15(5)
The end of the dynasty
20(8)
Maximinus to Diocletian and the `crisis'
28(39)
John Drinkwater
Introduction
28(1)
Narrative
28(30)
Discussion
58(9)
Diocletian and the first tetrarchy, A.D. 284--305
67(23)
Alan K. Bowman
The accession of Diocletian and the appointment of Maximian
68(2)
The years 286--92
70(4)
The creation of the tetrarchy
74(4)
The period of the tetrarchy, 293--305
78(10)
Conclusion
88(2)
The reign of Constantine, A.D. 306--337
90(20)
Averil Cameron
PART II GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
The army
110(21)
Brian Campbell
Change and continuity
110(10)
The military reforms of Diocletian and Constantine
120(11)
The emperor and his administration
131(81)
General developments
131(6)
Elio Lo Cascio
The age of the Severans
137(19)
Elio Lo Cascio
Imperial designation and legitimation: the problem of succession
137(3)
The domus Augusta and the dynastic ideology
140(1)
The role of the army and the plebs urbana in imperial legitimation
141(1)
The administration: the centre and the periphery
142(5)
The praetorian prefecture and the jurists
147(1)
The development of the procuratorships
148(2)
The new organization of imperial estates and finances
150(6)
The government and administration of the empire in the central decades of the third century
156(14)
Elio Lo Cascio
Designation of the emperor and succession during the fifty years of the anarchy
156(2)
Gallienus' reforms: military command and the government of the provinces
158(4)
The city of Rome from the Severans to Aurelian
162(3)
Italy moving towards provincialization
165(5)
The new state of Diocletian and Constantine: from the tetrarchy to the reunification of the empire
170(14)
Elio Lo Cascio
The new legitimation of imperial power
170(2)
The reforms and the administrative organization of the empire
172(7)
Provinces, dioceses and prefectures
179(2)
Later developments
181(3)
High classical law
184(16)
David Ibbetson
Epiclassical law
200(12)
David Johnston
Rescripts, jurists and the chancellery
201(1)
Codes
202(2)
Epiclassical jurists
204(2)
Jurists in the schools
206(1)
Conclusion
207(5)
PART III THE PROVINCES
Provinces and frontiers
212(57)
John Wilkes
Frontier history
212(21)
Emperors and provinces
233(19)
Frontier organization
252(17)
Developments in provincial and local administration
269(44)
Jean-Michel Carrie
Introduction
269(2)
The imperial state and its `provincials'
271(11)
The cities in the service of the functioning of the imperial state
282(11)
The fate of the municipal world: crisis or adaptation?
293(16)
Conclusion
309(4)
Egypt from Septimius Severus to the death of Constantine
313(14)
Alan K. Bowman
Prologue
313(2)
Egypt in the context of the empire
315(1)
The province and its administration
316(6)
Society and economy
322(5)
PART IV THE ECONOMY OF THE EMPIRE
Coinage and taxation: the state's point of view, A.D. 193--337
327(66)
Mireille Corbier
Coin issues and devaluations
330(23)
The metal stock
353(7)
Taxation
360(26)
The modes of public spending
386(4)
Conclusion
390(3)
Coinage, society and economy
393(47)
Mireille Corbier
The structures of the economy
397(28)
The state and the evolution of the economy in the `long' third century: problems of interpretation
425(10)
Did the economic unity of the empire become fragmented?
435(5)
PART V THE NON-ROMAN WORLD
The Germanic peoples and Germanic society
440(21)
Malcolm Todd
New groupings
440(7)
Settlements
447(3)
Warfare
450(3)
Trade and technology
453(8)
The Sassanians
461(20)
Richard N. Frye
Introduction
461(3)
The early Sassanians
464(8)
Sassanian relations with the Romans
472(2)
Religious developments
474(5)
Conclusions
479(2)
Armenia and the eastern marches
481(17)
C.S. Lightfoot
Introduction
481(2)
The Armenian kingdom
483(6)
The marches
489(2)
Outline history
491(7)
The Arabs and the desert peoples
498(23)
Maurice Sartre
The unity and diversity of Arab society
498(9)
The apogee and ruin of the client states
507(8)
Phylarchs and allied nomad kings
515(6)
PART VI RELIGION, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Late polytheism
521(151)
The world-view
521(17)
Garth Fowden
Problems around Plotinus
523(6)
Hermetism and theurgy
529(4)
Magic and astrology
533(5)
The individual and the gods
538(15)
Garth Fowden
Shrines and cults
538(5)
Special relationships
543(8)
Gods of hearth and grave
551(2)
Public religion
553(20)
Garth Fowden
The role of the emperor
553(8)
Regional perspectives
561(9)
Conclusion
570(3)
Christianity, A.D. 70--192
573(16)
Mark Edwards
Third-century Christianity
589(83)
Graeme Clarke
Geographical coverage
589(27)
Christians and the Roman state
616(9)
Persecution of Decius
625(10)
Persecution under Gallus
635(2)
Persecution under Valerian and Gallienus
637(10)
The Great Persecution
647(18)
Christian literature of the third century
665(7)
Art and architecture, A.D. 193--337
672(32)
Janet Huskinson
Introduction
672(1)
Art and architecture, A.D. 193--337: a survey
673(29)
Conclusion
702(2)
Appendices to chapter 8
704(64)
John Wilkes
Changes in Roman provincial organization, A.D. 193--337
705(9)
Imperial movements, A.D. 193--337
714(10)
Frontier deployment, A.D. 193--337
724(44)
Stemmata
768(4)
Brian Campbell
Simon Corcoran
Chronology
772(14)
Bibliography
786(114)
Abbreviations
786(7)
Frequently cited works
793(6)
Part I: Narrative (chapters 1--4)
799(20)
Part II: Government and administration (chapters 5--7)
819(15)
Part III: The provinces (chapters 8--10)
834(18)
Part IV: The economy of the empire (chapters 11--12)
852(19)
Part V: The non-Roman world (chapters 13--16)
871(14)
Part VI: Religion, culture and society (chapters 17--19)
885(15)
Index900
Some volumes are 2nd edition; v. 14 lacks edition statement
Individual chapters have already appeared as fascicles, 1961-1968