Introduction: Connecting Courts

Caillan Davenport; Meaghan McEvoy

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Introduction: Connecting Courts

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This introductory chapter by the editors provides a methodological foundation for the volume as a whole. It first considers the definition of a court and Roman perceptions of the court using ancient literary sources and modern historical and sociological scholarship. It then reviews scholarly investigations of the Roman imperial court as an institution in the Principate and Late Antiquity across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chapter concludes by considering the three major themes of the volume—ritual and spatial dynamics; individual and community at court; and the politics of access—and places the individual chapters in their historical and scholarly contexts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity
Editors	Caillan Davenport, Meaghan McEvoy
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	1-38
Number of pages	38
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191955686
ISBN (Print)	9780192865236
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865236.003.0001
Publication status	Published - 2023

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