ABSTRACT
This volume explores the transformation of public space and administrative activities in republican and imperial Rome through an interdisciplinary examination of the topography of power.
Throughout the Roman world building projects created spaces for different civic purposes, such as hosting assemblies, holding senate meetings, the administration of justice, housing the public treasury, and the management of the city through different magistracies, offices, and even archives. These administrative spaces – both open and closed – characterised Roman life throughout the Republic and High Empire until the administrative and judicial transformations of the fourth century CE. This volume explores urban development and the dynamics of administrative expansion, linking them with some of the most recent archaeological discoveries. In doing so, it examines several facets of the transformation of Roman administration over this period, considering new approaches to and theories on the uses of public space and incorporating new work in Roman studies that focuses on the spatial needs of human users, rather than architectural style and design.
This fascinating collection of essays is of interest to students and scholars working on Roman space and urbanism, Roman governance, and the running of the Roman Empire more broadly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|66 pages
Theory and Methodology
chapter 2|36 pages
The Administrative Topography of Rome
part II|69 pages
The Space of the Magistrate and Politics
part III|86 pages
The Space of the Institutions
chapter 7|27 pages
The Rise and Consolidation of a Bureaucratic System
chapter 8|21 pages
Scholae and Collegia
chapter 9|19 pages
Civic Archives and Roman Rule
part IV|64 pages
Displaying Authority Over the Public Space and Religious Space
part V|6 pages
Coda