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The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of 'empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mutschler, Fritz-Heiner, Mittag, Achim, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Temas:
202 B.C. - 476 A.D.
History, Ancient > Historiography > Congresses.
Imperialism > Historiography > Congresses.
Histoire ancienne > Historiographie > Congrès.
Impérialisme > Historiographie > Congrès.
HISTORY.
History, Ancient > Historiography
Imperialism > Historiography
Reichsidee
China > History > Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D. > Congresses.
Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. > Congresses.
Chine > Histoire > 202 av. J.-C.-220 (Dynastie des Han) > Congrès.
Rome > Histoire > 30 av. J.-C.-476 (Empire) > Congrès.
China
Rome (Empire)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. The birth of the imperial order. A. The idea of 'empire' : its genesis before and its unfolding after the emergence of the empire. City and empire / Albrecht Dihle
  • Interlude : kingship and empire / Zhu Weizheng
  • The rhetoric of 'empire' in the classical era in China / Michael Nylan
  • B. Historiography and the emerging empire. Imagining the empire? Concepts of 'primeval unity' in pre-imperial historiographic tradition / Yuri Pines
  • The emergence of empire : Rome and the surrounding world in historical narratives from the late third century BC to the early first century AD / Huang Yang and Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
  • pt. II. The firmly established empire. A. Imperial grandeur and historiography à la grande. The problem of 'imperial historiography' in Rome / Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
  • Forging legacy : the pact between empire and historiography in ancient China / Achim Mittag
  • B. The spatial dimension of the unified world : imperial geography and cartographical representations. Diagram (tu) and text (wen) : mapping the Chinese world / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer
  • Text and image : mapping the Roman World / Katherine Clarke
  • C. Self-image and the formation of imperial rhetorics. Announcements from the mountains : the stele inscriptions of the Qin First Emperor / Martin Kern
  • The Res Gestae Divi Augusti and the Roman Empire / Christian Witschel
  • D. The power of images : imperial order and imperial aura as represented in art and architecture. Image and empire : the shaping of Augustan Rome / Rolf Michael Schneider
  • Imperial aura and the image of the other in Han art / Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens
  • pt. III. The waning of the imperial order. A. History-writing in the face of crisis. The impact of the empire's crises on historiography and historical thinking in late antiquity / Hans Armin Gärtner and Ye Min
  • Empire on the brink : Chinese historiography in the post-Han period / Achim Mittag and Ye Min
  • B. When the imperial order disintegrates : rethinking the 'empire' under religious auspices. New tendencies, religious and philosophical, in the Roman Empire of the third to early fifth centuries / Gerard O'Daly
  • New tendencies, religious and philosophical, in the Chinese world of the third through sixth centuries / Thomas Jansen.

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