Praesides, comites, duces. Tripolitania and the administration of Late Roman Africa
| Autor: | Ignazio Tantillo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Antiquité Tardive. 22:177-194 |
| ISSN: | 2295-9718 1250-7334 |
| Popis: | This paper re-examines the administrative evolution of the province of Tripolitania from its creation under the tetrarchy to the latest evidence relating to Roman rule. The case of Tripolitania is emblematic, despite its inevitable specificity; its study can be useful in order to explore, more generally, questions such as the way central government dealt with border districts in the later Roman empire, the problems of attribution of civil and military powers, the competition between the holders of such powers, and the possible interferences between the provincial authorities and the authorities operating at an interprovincial level. The author tries to make order in the scattered evidence related to Tripolitania and other north African provinces, which often has not been sufficiently explored or properly inter preted; new data obtained from a re-reading or re-assembling of some inscriptions from Sabratha and Leptis add further elements to the discussion. The evolution of Tripolitania is framed within the ... |
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