The Many Faces of “the People” in the Ancient World

Beck, H. P.; Vankeerberghen, Griet

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“… 58 Rome and China: e.g. Kiser and Cai 2003, primarily concerned with Qin China but with much of interest for Roman historians; Rosenstein 2010 and other essays in Scheidel 2010; Scheidel 2015; Beck and Vankeerberghen 2021. Conflict and unification in the Indian subcontinent, culminating in the Mauryan ascendancy: Sarao 2014; for the reign of Ashoka, Lahiri 2015; more economically, Sherwin-White and Kuhrt 1993: 91–103.…”

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Middle Republican Connectivities

Peralta

Bernard

2022

J. Rom. Stud.

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This paper outlines a new framework for the historical study of Rome and Italy during the middle republican period. We argue that traditional approaches centred upon social struggles at home and battles abroad, res domi militiaeque, do not sufficiently capture the dynamism of Roman society during the early stages of imperial expansion. Recent scholarship has been rightly critical of the appropriateness of applying concepts of Hellenisation to the period, as Rome's interactions with Magna Graecia and the Greek East in the fourth and third centuries look very different than they would in subsequent centuries. Moving in a new direction, we sketch the contours of an approach that foregrounds the many connectivities (temporal, geographical, methodological, historical) apparent from the interdisciplinary study of middle republican Rome and Italy. The result encourages a new mode of historical inquiry into the development of middle republican Rome and Italy, one which sees Rome already in this moment as both expansively interconnected with and actively involved in wider Mediterranean and Eurasian history.

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Middle Republican Connectivities

Peralta

Bernard

2022

J. Rom. Stud.

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Sovereignty Across Generations

Ferrara

2023

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Every cohort of voters may dream of being ‘the people’, under the sway of serial visions of sovereignty; or it may understand itself more modestly, as co-author of a constitutional project in a cross-generational sequence rooted in the past and extending into the future. This book articulates a theory of democratic sovereignty and constituent power grounded in John Rawls’s political liberalism. His political philosophy and implicit constitutional theory offer an unsurpassed normative, yet non-foundationalist, account of the justness and legitimacy of political and legal orders. Neither exegetic nor abstractly analytic, this book assumes that ‘political liberalism’ is broader than in Rawls’s Political Liberalism of 1993. In answering the question ‘How is it possible for there to exist over time a just and stable society of free and equal citizens, who remain profoundly divided by reasonable religious, philosophical, and moral doctrines?’, the paradigm implicit in Political Liberalism enables us to address facets of that question that the context of the time induced Rawls to sideline. In response to populist threats to democracy, still latent in the early 1990s, this book focuses on a hitherto neglected phrase within Rawls’s question: ‘over time’. That inconspicuous phrase signals the urgency of clarifying the proper relation of ‘the people’, as transgenerational author of the constitution, to its pro-tempore living segment in its capacity as electorate (a constituted power among other constituted powers) and as co-author of the constitution. An elucidation of that relation brings ‘constituent power’ into the picture and unfolds in seven steps that form the conceptual backbone of this book.

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2023

Sovereignty Across Generations

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The Many Faces of “the People” in the Ancient World

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