Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire Ando Clifford
Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire Ando Clifford The Roman empire remains unique. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across…
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Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire Ando Clifford
The Roman empire remains unique. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not.
In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever-fashionable question, Why did the Roman empire fall? Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. Rather, he asks, Why did the empire last so long?Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified.
This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando
The Later Roman Empire