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The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from
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The five articles and Simon Price’s response at the core of this book were originally papers delivered in a session of t
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The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, especially under their charismatic leaders Charles V and Suleyman I, were
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During the Principate (roughly 27 BCE to 235 CE), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture
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Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient so
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Imperial Cults is a comparative study of the transformation of imperial religion and imperial authority in the early Han
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This important new book on the Yaqui people of the north Mexican state of Sonora examines the history of Yaqui-Spanish i
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Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the
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Despite the fact that the Roman Republic came to an undeniable end in 31 BC with the accession of the emperor Augustus,
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Religion in the Roman Empire goes beyond gods and goddesses to provide a detailed look at the belief system of ancient R
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