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Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES Volume 37 General Editor Yitzhak Hen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Editorial Board Angelo di Berardino, Augustinianum, Rome Nora Berend, University of Cambridge Leslie Brubaker, University of Birmingham Christoph Cluse, Universität Trier Rob Meens, Universiteit Utrecht James Montgomery, University of Cambridge Alan V. Murray, University of Leeds Thomas F. X. Noble, University of Notre Dame Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of this book. Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Edited by Cédric Brélaz and Els Rose F British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library © 2021, Brepols Publishers n. v., Turnhout, Belgium. This is an open access publication made available under a cc by-nc-nd 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, for commercial purposes, without the prior permission of the publisher, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. D/2021/0095/114 ISBN 978-2-503-59010-3 eISBN 978-2-503-59011-0 DOI 10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.5.120678 ISSN 1378-8779 eISSN 2294-8511 Printed in the EU on acid-free paper. Table of Contents List of Illustrations 7 Acknowledgements 9 Abbreviations 11 Introduction Cédric Brélaz and Els Rose 15 Part I Local Communities, Citizenship, and Civic Participation in the Early Roman Empire (First–Third Century ce) Local Citizenship and Civic Participation in the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire Clifford Ando 39 Democracy, Citizenship(s), and ‘Patriotism’: Civic Practices and Discourses in the Greek Cities under Roman Rule Cédric Brélaz 65 Part II Local Identities, Civic Government, and Popular Participation in Late Antiquity Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Constantinople Anthony Kaldellis 93 Social Status and Civic Participation in Early Byzantine Cities Avshalom Laniado 111 Informal Expressions of Popular Will in Late Roman Africa Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira 145 6 table of contents Urban Identities in Late Roman Italy Pierfrancesco Porena 167 Cities and Civic Identities in Late Roman and Visigothic Spain Michael Kulikowski 195 Part III Rephrasing Citizenship Personal Identity in the Later Roman Empire Ralph Mathisen 215 A Relationship of Justice: Becoming the People in Late Antiquity Peter Van Nuffelen 249 Reconfiguring Civic Identity and Civic Participation in a Christianizing World: The Case of Sixth-Century Arles Els Rose 271 Legalizing Ethnicity: The Remaking of Citizenship in Post-Roman Gaul (Sixth–Seventh Centuries) Stefan Esders and Helmut Reimitz 295 Part IV Expressions of Civic Identity in the Early Middle Ages Urban Populations in Early Islam: Self-Identification and Collective Representation Mathieu Tillier 333 Urban Culture in the Early Medieval West: The Case of the Episcopal Towns in the German Kingdom Marco Mostert 363 Elites and Urban Communities in Early Medieval Italy: Identities, Political Initiatives, and Ways of (Self-) Representation Gianmarco De Angelis 391 Citizenship and Contexts of Belonging: A Postscript Claudia Rapp 417 Index nominum 421 Index rerum 434 List of Illustrations Ralph Mathisen Figure 9.1. Epitaph of Aurelius Aeliodorus, ‘Greek by nationality, citizen of Tarsus in Cilicia, living in Seville’. Late fourth or early fifth century, from Tarragona. 236 Table 9.1. Percentage of epitaphs using the natio, gens, or civis formulae. 240 Mathieu Tillier Table 13.1. List of tribal and geographic nisba-s on funerary stelae (650–835 ce). 338 Marco Mostert Figure 14.1. Map showing the origins of episcopal towns in the German kingdom from Late Antiquity to the eleventh century. 364 Table 14.1. Nouns for German episcopal towns. 381 Table 14.2. Adjectives for German episcopal towns. 382 Gianmarco De Angelis Figure 15.1. Archivio Storico Diocesano di Bergamo, Pergamene dell’Archivio Capitolare, n. 333, July 856. Particular of the eschatocol with subscriptions and Tironian notes used by the bishop Hagano and archpriest John. 402 Figure 15.2. Archivio Storico Diocesano di Bergamo, Pergamene dell’Archivio Capitolare, n. 538, July 886. Particular of the eschatocol with subscriptions and Tironian notes used by members of the diocesan clergy and lay witnesses. 404 Figure 15.3. Archivio Storico Diocesano di Bergamo, Pergamene dell’Archivio Capitolare, n. 1903, March 905. Particular of the eschatocol with subscriptions and Tironian notes used by members of the diocesan clergy and lay witnesses. 405 Figure 15.4. Archivio Storico Diocesano di Bergamo, Pergamene dell’Archivio Capitolare, n. 96, March 909. Particular of the eschatocol with subscriptions and Tironian notes used by members of the diocesan clergy and lay witnesses. 406 Figure 15.5. Civitas Veronensis Depicta (Iconografia Rateriana), copy of the eighteenth century, Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona, CXIV (106). 409
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