TY  - BOOK
AU  - Graham,Mark W.
TI  - News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire
SN  - 9780472115624
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - History / Ancient / Rome
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/8f1afd61-3e35-42a2-bd65-ff7c7a8413ad
ER  -