Bridging Center and Periphery

Administrative Communication from Constantine to Justinian

by Lukas Lemcke

Book cover: Bridging Center and Periphery

Extent: 354 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Law

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(March 2020)

ISBN: 9783161589447

9.09 x 6.06 inches

Price: $99.00

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Lukas Lemcke challenges the conventional understanding of the Late Roman administration as a three-tiered system by demonstrating that its hierarchy of communication was distinctly two-tiered. In so doing, he offers a new perspective on the functional and organizational structure of this administrative system and advances our understanding of the vicariate by introducing a new functional dimension and by reassessing its development during the fifth and early sixth centuries. Based on a comprehensive collection of legal, epigraphic and other literary documents to which the concept of “formal communication” is applied, the author explores the forms and development of administrative communication channels that facilitated the official exchange of information from Constantine to Justinian and thus reveals how emperors actively sought to regulate the centripetal and centrifugal flow of official information.

Born 1990; 2012 BA (Classical Studies) and 2013 MA (Ancient Mediterranean Cultures), University of Waterloo, Canada; 2014-19 PhD studies in Ancient History, University of Cologne.

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