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  • 1 - Introduction

  • Edited by Seth Bernard, University of Toronto, Lisa Marie Mignone, New York University, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Making the Middle Republic
    Published online:
    20 April 2023
    Print publication:
    27 April 2023, pp 1-16

  • Summary

    This introductory chapter presents the book’s themes and contents, taking up the topic of how we define the Roman Middle Republican period. While the periodization to which “Middle” Republic pertains is wholly modern, the essays in this book argue for a discrete unit of historical inquiry. Our “Middle Republican” period was transformative for the societies of Rome and Italy, while its full dynamism is best captured through an expansive and capacious approach embodied by this collection of chapters.

Making the Middle Republic
  • New Approaches to Rome and Italy, c.400-200 BCE
  • Edited by Seth Bernard, Lisa Marie Mignone, Dan-el Padilla Peralta
  • Published online:
    20 April 2023
    Print publication:
    27 April 2023
  • During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Rural landscapes and urban spaces throughout Latium saw intensified use amidst novel principles of land management, animal husbandry, and architectural design. This book offers fresh perspectives on these transformations by embracing a wide range of approaches to Middle Republican history. Chapters take up topics and methods ranging from fiscal sociology, bioarchaeology, comparative slaveries, field survey, art and architectural history, numismatics, elite mobility, and beyond. An emphasis is placed on how developments in this period reshaped not only Rome, but also other Latin and Italian societies in complex and often multilinear ways. The volume promotes the Middle Republic as a period whose full dynamism is best appreciated at the intersection of diverse lines of inquiry.