The city in the classical and post-classical world : changing contexts of power and identity

Introduction: polis - empire - oikoumene: a world reconfigured Claudia Rapp and H. A. Drake 1. A covenant between gods and men: hiera kai hosia and the Greek polis Josine Blok 2. Hellenistic imperialism and the ideal of world unity Rolf Strootman 3. Lawyers and citizens from republic to empire: Gaius on the Twelve Tables and Antonine Rome Jill Harries 4. Laws' empire: universalism and legal practice Caroline Humfress 5. A most unusual empire: Rome in the fourth century Bryan Ward-Perkins 6. Mobility and identity between the second and the fourth century CE: the 'cosmopolitization' of the Roman Empire Claudia Moatti 7. City and citizenship as Christian metaphors in the Greek fathers Claudia Rapp 8. Church-festival-temple: reimagining civic topography in late antiquity Susanna Elm 9. Leo the Great: responses to crisis and the shaping of a Christian cosmopolis Michele Renee Salzman 10. The battle of the maps in a Christian empire Emily Albu 11. Topographies of power in late antiquity and beyond H. A. Drake Postscript: cities, citizenship, and the work of empire Clifford Ando.