Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

456 Pages·2021·9.602 MB·English

by  Cédric Brélaz, Els Rose

Civic Identity and Civic Participation
in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY
AND THE MIDDLE AGES
Volume 37
General Editor
Yitzhak Hen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Editorial Board
Angelo di Berardino, Augustinianum, Rome
Nora Berend, University of Cambridge
Leslie Brubaker, University of Birmingham
Christoph Cluse, Universität Trier
Rob Meens, Universiteit Utrecht
James Montgomery, University of Cambridge
Alan V. Murray, University of Leeds
Thomas F. X. Noble, University of Notre Dame
Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London
Previously published volumes in this series
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Civic Identity and Civic Participation
in Late Antiquity
and the Early Middle Ages
Edited by
Cédric Brélaz and Els Rose
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ISBN 978-2-503-59010-3
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DOI 10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.5.120678
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations 7
Acknowledgements 9
Abbreviations 11
Introduction
Cédric Brélaz and Els Rose 15
Part I
Local Communities, Citizenship, and Civic Participation in
the Early Roman Empire (First–Third Century ce)
Local Citizenship and Civic Participation in the Western Provinces
of the Roman Empire
Clifford Ando 39
Democracy, Citizenship(s), and ‘Patriotism’: Civic Practices and
Discourses in the Greek Cities under Roman Rule
Cédric Brélaz 65
Part II
Local Identities, Civic Government, and
Popular Participation in Late Antiquity
Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Constantinople
Anthony Kaldellis 93
Social Status and Civic Participation in Early Byzantine Cities
Avshalom Laniado 111
Informal Expressions of Popular Will in Late Roman Africa
Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira 145
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Urban Identities in Late Roman Italy
Pierfrancesco Porena 167
Cities and Civic Identities in Late Roman and Visigothic Spain
Michael Kulikowski 195
Part III
Rephrasing Citizenship
Personal Identity in the Later Roman Empire
Ralph Mathisen 215
A Relationship of Justice: Becoming the People in Late Antiquity
Peter Van Nuffelen 249
Reconfiguring Civic Identity and Civic Participation in a
Christianizing World: The Case of Sixth-Century Arles
Els Rose 271
Legalizing Ethnicity: The Remaking of Citizenship in Post-Roman
Gaul (Sixth–Seventh Centuries)
Stefan Esders and Helmut Reimitz 295
Part IV
Expressions of Civic Identity in the Early Middle Ages
Urban Populations in Early Islam: Self-Identification and Collective
Representation
Mathieu Tillier 333
Urban Culture in the Early Medieval West: The Case of the Episcopal
Towns in the German Kingdom
Marco Mostert 363
Elites and Urban Communities in Early Medieval Italy: Identities,
Political Initiatives, and Ways of (Self-) Representation
Gianmarco De Angelis 391
Citizenship and Contexts of Belonging: A Postscript
Claudia Rapp 417
Index nominum 421
Index rerum 434
List of Illustrations
Ralph Mathisen
Figure 9.1. Epitaph of Aurelius Aeliodorus, ‘Greek by nationality, citizen
of Tarsus in Cilicia, living in Seville’. Late fourth or early fifth
century, from Tarragona. 236
Table 9.1. Percentage of epitaphs using the natio, gens, or civis formulae. 240
Mathieu Tillier
Table 13.1. List of tribal and geographic nisba-s on funerary stelae
(650–835 ce). 338
Marco Mostert
Figure 14.1. Map showing the origins of episcopal towns in the German
kingdom from Late Antiquity to the eleventh century. 364
Table 14.1. Nouns for German episcopal towns. 381
Table 14.2. Adjectives for German episcopal towns. 382
Gianmarco De Angelis
Figure 15.1. Archivio Storico Diocesano di Bergamo, Pergamene dell’Archivio
Capitolare, n. 333, July 856. Particular of the eschatocol with
subscriptions and Tironian notes used by the bishop Hagano
and archpriest John. 402
Figure 15.2. Archivio Storico Diocesano di Bergamo, Pergamene dell’Archivio
Capitolare, n. 538, July 886. Particular of the eschatocol with
subscriptions and Tironian notes used by members of the
diocesan clergy and lay witnesses. 404
Figure 15.3. Archivio Storico Diocesano di Bergamo, Pergamene dell’Archivio
Capitolare, n. 1903, March 905. Particular of the eschatocol
with subscriptions and Tironian notes used by members of the
diocesan clergy and lay witnesses. 405
Figure 15.4. Archivio Storico Diocesano di Bergamo, Pergamene dell’Archivio
Capitolare, n. 96, March 909. Particular of the eschatocol with
subscriptions and Tironian notes used by members of the
diocesan clergy and lay witnesses. 406
Figure 15.5. Civitas Veronensis Depicta (Iconografia Rateriana), copy of
the eighteenth century, Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona, CXIV
(106). 409