News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire Mark W. Graham.
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TextPublisher: University of Michigan Press, Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)ISBN: 9780472115624Subject(s): History / Ancient / Rome | HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: View this content on Open Research Library. Summary: 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, as news from and about frontiers began to portray a more defined Roman worldâ€"a world with limitsâ€"allowing a new understanding of frontiers as territorial and not just as divisions of people. This concept, previously unknown in the ancient world, brought with it a new consciousness, which soon spread to cosmology, geography, myth, sacred texts, and prophecy. The “frontier consciousnessâ€_x009d_ produced a unified sense of Roman identity that transcended local identities and social boundaries throughout the later Empire.
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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, as news from and about frontiers began to portray a more defined Roman worldâ€"a world with limitsâ€"allowing a new understanding of frontiers as territorial and not just as divisions of people. This concept, previously unknown in the ancient world, brought with it a new consciousness, which soon spread to cosmology, geography, myth, sacred texts, and prophecy. The “frontier consciousnessâ€_x009d_ produced a unified sense of Roman identity that transcended local identities and social boundaries throughout the later Empire.
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