Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary

by Ramsay MacMullen

Book Overview

Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A.D. 50 and 450. Here, for example, the author applies statistical analysis to broad groups of people on matters ranging from justice through medicine to language. In so doing he is able to substantiate general statements about routines in ordinary people's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691036012
• ISBN13: 9780691036014
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"