In 212 CE, the emperor Caracalla extended citizenship to nearly all free-born residents of the Roman Empire. In doing so, he transformed not only his own, but the very ideal of empire and statehood in Europe. This volume first inquires into the contexts of Caracalla's act in his own day. Rome was an ancient empire: it had traditionally ruled over populations that were conceived and governed as distinct units, a practice that was both strategic and ideological. What were the practical and political effects of a universalizing ideology in this context? Was there a reorientation of private social and legal practice in response? And what politics of exclusion came to apply, now that citizenship no longer served to distinguish persons of higher and lower status? The volume subsequently traces the history of citizenship in universalizing ideologies and legal practice from late antiquity to the codification of law in Europe in the nineteenth century. Caracalla's act was then repeatedly cited as the ideal toward which sovereign polities should strive, be they states or empires. Citizenship and law were thereby made preeminent among the universalisms of European statecraft.
Citizenship and Empire in Europe 200–1900 : The Antonine Constitution after 1800 years
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In 212 CE, the emperor Caracalla extended citizenship to nearly all free-born residents of the Roman Empire. In doing so, he transformed not only his own, but the very ideal of empire and statehood in Europe. This volume first inquires into the contexts of Caracalla's act in his own day. Rome was an ancient empire: it had traditionally ruled over populations that were conceived and governed as distinct units, a practice that was both strategic and ideological. What were the practical and political effects of a universalizing ideology in this context? Was there a reorientation of private social and legal practice in response? And what politics of exclusion came to apply, now that citizenship no longer served to distinguish persons of higher and lower status? The volume subsequently traces the history of citizenship in universalizing ideologies and legal practice from late antiquity to the codification of law in Europe in the nineteenth century. Caracalla's act was then repeatedly cited as the ideal toward which sovereign polities should strive, be they states or empires. Citizenship and law were thereby made preeminent among the universalisms of European statecraft.
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Memory and Religious Experience in the Greco-Roman World
Divination in the Ancient World : Religious Options and the Individual
Religious Associations in the Post-Classical Polis
Ruling the Greek World : Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East
The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry : From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond
Burial Rituals, Ideas of Afterlife, and the Individual in the Hellenistic World and the Roman Empire
Norm and Exercise : Christian asceticism between late antiquity and early middle ages
Signs of weakness and crisis in the Western cities of the Roman Empire (c. II–III AD)
From "Roma quadrata" to "la grande Roma dei Tarquini" : A Study of the Literary Tradition on Rome's Territorial Growth under the Kings
Cicero and Roman Religion : Eight Studies
Pervading Empire : Relationality and Diversity in the Roman Provinces