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"Studies the continuities and discontinuities in the functioning of civic bodies in the late and post-Roman world. During the Ancient Greek and Roman eras, participation in political communities at the local level, and assertion of belonging to these communities, were among the fundamental principles and values on which societies would rely. For that reason, citizenship and democracy are generally considered as concepts typical of the political experience of Classical Antiquity. These concepts of citizenship and democracy are often seen as inconsistent with the political, social, and ideological context of the late and post-Roman world. As a result, scholarship has largely overlooked participation in local political communities when it comes to the period between the disintegration of the Classical model of local citizenship in the later Roman Empire and the emergence of "pre-communal" entities in Northern Italy from the ninth century onwards. By reassessing the period c. 300-1000 CE through the concepts of civic identity and civic participation, this volume will reassess both the impact of Classical heritage with regard to civic identities in the political experiences of the late

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Author

Cédric Brélaz; Els Rose

Publisher

Brepols Publishers

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9782503590103

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Ancient History, Humanities