Chapter 47 The uses of citizenship in the post-Roman West

• Main Author: Martínez Jiménez, Javier (auth)
• Other Authors: Flierman, Robert (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
• Subjects: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Roman citizenship, Greek citizenship, Citizenship in the Ancient Near East, Roman Empire, Hellenistic world, Ancient Mediterranean world, Belonging, Non-citizenship, Citizenship, Politics, Society
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It has been a recurrent shortcoming in the historiography of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages to dismiss the importance of citizenship after Caracalla's edict, but especially after the fall of Rome. This tendency comes from the implicit assumption that citizenship in this period referre...