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Flavius Vegetius Renatus was a Roman of high rank who collected and synthesized from ancient manuscripts and regulations the military customs and wisdom that made ancient Rome …

At the frontiers of the Roman Empire, military settlements had a profound influence on local crafting traditions. Legions were not just fighting units - they contained a large …

This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Western terminology still plays a normative role in the …

This book focuses on the problem of succession of the imperial power under the Julio-Claudian dynasty. In the first part of the work, the author analyses the succession policy of …

This book presents the first interdisciplinary discussion by leading international historians of the important methodological tool known as prosopography - the collection of all …

The Greeks and, especially, the Romans are famous for the heroic engineering of their aqueducts, tunnels and roads. They also measured the circumference of the earth and the …

A newly updated edition of this classic, hugely influential account of how the Romans defended their vast empire.At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire …

A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day. Prohibition in Turkey investigates …

Theater, spectacle, and performance played significant roles in the political and social structure of the Roman Empire, which was diverse in population and language. A wide and …

This work discusses the decline of Greek religion and the christianization of town and countryside in the eastern Roman Empire between the death of Julian the Apostate and the laws …