Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire
Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire
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罗马帝国的帝国意识形态和地方忠诚度
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2000
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C. Ando
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罗马帝国仍然是独一无二的。虽然罗马宣称要统治世界，但事实并非如此。相反，它的独特性源于它所创造的文化，以及它所激发的从泰恩河到幼发拉底河的整个地区的忠诚。此外，帝国创造了这种文化，其官僚机构比典型的20世纪末研究型大学要小。在探讨这个问题时，克利福德·安藤并没有问那个一直流行的问题：罗马帝国为什么灭亡？相反，他问，为什么帝国能持续这么久？《罗马帝国的帝国意识形态和地方忠诚》一书认为，罗马帝国的长寿并不取决于罗马的军事力量，而是取决于人们逐渐意识到罗马统治是正当的。这一共识本身就是中央政府与其偏远地区之间复杂对话的产物。安藤调查了维持这种对话的机制，探讨了它对罗马权力合法化的贡献，并揭示了它的产物是对罗马政治和法律话语形式和内容的地方性吸收。贯穿始终，他的复杂而微妙的阅读受到马克斯·韦伯、尤尔根·哈贝马斯和皮埃尔·布迪厄等理论家对社会形态的当前思考的影响。
The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever-fashionable question, Why did the Roman empire fall? Rather, he asks, Why did the empire last so long? "Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire" argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified. This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando investigates the mechanisms that sustained this conversation, explores its contribution to the legitimation of Roman power, and reveals as its product the provincial absorption of the forms and content of Roman political and legal discourse. Throughout, his sophisticated and subtle reading is informed by current thinking on social formation by theorists such as Max Weber, Jurgen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu.