Myles Lavan - Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE

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Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE

Edited by Myles Lavan and Clifford Ando

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lavan, Myles, 1977-editor. | Ando, Clifford, 1969-editor.

Title: Roman and local citizenship in the long second century CE / edited

by Myles Lavan and Clifford Ando.

Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021. | Series: Oxford

studies in early empire series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021027753 (print) | LCCN 2021027754 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780197573884 (hardback) | ISBN 9780197573907 (epub) |

Subjects: LCSH: CitizenshipRome. | Roman provincesAdministration. |

Constitutio Antoniniana. | RomeHistoryAntonines, 96-192.

Classification: LCC JC85.C5 R66 2021 (print) | LCC JC85.C5 (ebook) | DDC

323.60937/09015dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021027753

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021027754

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197573884.001.0001

Clifford Ando and Myles Lavan

Ari Z. Bryen

Lisa Pilar Eberle

Myles Lavan

Rose MacLean

Aitor Blanco-Prez

Anna Dolganov

Georgy Kantor

Cdric Brlaz

Clifford Ando

This volume brings together a number of scholars who had independently been wrestling with various problems relating to the significance and function of Roman citizenship in the imperial period. Funding from a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant made it possible to organize a pair of workshops in 2017 and 2018 to compare notes and identify some areas where we could make progress together. This collective re-evaluation of the significance of Roman citizenship in the long century is the fruit of those discussions. We are very grateful to the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust for their support, as well as to the Division of Humanities of the University of Chicago. We would also like to thank several other colleagues who joined us for one or both of the two workshops: Kim Czajkowski, Paul Du Plessis, Gabrielle Frija, Jill Harries, Saskia Roselaar, and especially Kostas Buraselis, who was unable to submit a paper to the final volume but whose fundamental work on Roman citizenship in the imperial period has been an important influence on all our work. Finally, we express our gratitude to Stefan Vranka at OUP; Sam Kumar at Newgen KnowledgeWorks, who oversaw the production process; and especially Wendy Keebler, who performed the copyediting with exceptional sensitivity, accuracy, and care.

Clifford Ando is David B. and Clara E. Stern Distinguished Service Professor; Professor of Classics, History, and in the College, University of Chicago.

Aitor Blanco-Prez is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Navarra.

Cdric Brlaz is Chair Professor of Ancient History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Ari Z. Bryen is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University and Associate Professor (by courtesy) in the Vanderbilt Law School.

Anna Dolganov is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna.

Lisa Pilar Eberle is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tbingen.

Georgy Kantor is Official Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at St Johns College, Oxford.

Myles Lavan is Reader in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews.

Rose MacLean is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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