Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Polis, empire, oikoumene : a world reconfigured / Claudia Rapp and H.A. Drake
  • A covenant between gods and men : hiera kai hosia and the Greek polis / Josine Blok
  • Hellenistic imperialism and the ideal of world unity / Rolf Strootman
  • Lawyers and citizens from republic to empire : Gaius on the Twelve Tables and Antonine Rome / Jill Harries
  • Laws' empire : universalism and legal practice / Caroline Humfress
  • A most unusual empire : Rome in the fourth century / Bryan Ward-Perkins
  • Mobility and identity between the second and the fourth century CE : the "cosmopolitization" of the Roman Empire / Claudia Moatti
  • City and citizenship as Christian metaphors in the Greek fathers / Claudia Rapp
  • Church-festival-temple : reimagining civic topography in late antiquity / Susanna Elm
  • Leo the Great : responses to crisis and the shaping of a Christian cosmopolis / Michele Renee Salzman
  • The battle of the maps in a Christian empire / Emily Albu
  • Topographies of power in late antiquity and beyond / H.A. Drake
  • Postscript: Cities, citizenship, and the work of empire / Clifford Ando.