Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

List of Illustrations 7
Acknowledgements 9
Abbreviations 11
Introduction / Cédric Brélaz and Els Rose 15
Part I. Local Communities, Citizenship, and Civic Participation in the Early Roman Empire (First–Third Century CE)
Local Citizenship and Civic Participation in the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire / Clifford Ando 39
Democracy, Citizenship(s), and \'Patriotism\': Civic Practices and Discourses in the Greek Cities under Roman Rule / Cédric Brélaz 65
Part II. Local Identities, Civic Government, and Popular Participation in Late Antiquity
Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Constantinople / Anthony Kaldellis 93
Social Status and Civic Participation in Early Byzantine Cities / Avshalom Laniado 111
Informal Expressions of Popular Will in Late Roman Africa / Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira 145
Urban Identities in Late Roman Italy / Pierfrancesco Porena 167
Cities and Civic Identities in Late Roman and Visigothic Spain / Michael Kulikowski 195
Part III. Rephrasing Citizenship
Personal Identity in the Later Roman Empire / Ralph Mathisen 215
A Relationship of Justice: Becoming the People in Late Antiquity / Peter Van Nuffelen 249
Reconfiguring Civic Identity and Civic Participation in a Christianizing World: The Case of Sixth-Century Arles / Els Rose 271
Legalizing Ethnicity: The Remaking of Citizenship in Post-Roman Gaul (Sixth–Seventh Centuries) / Stefan Esders and Helmut Reimitz 295
Part IV. Expressions of Civic Identity in the Early Middle Ages
Urban Populations in Early Islam: Self-Identification and Collective Representation / Mathieu Tillier 333
Urban Culture in the Early Medieval West: The Case of the Episcopal Towns in the German Kingdom / Marco Mostert 363
Elites and Urban Communities in Early Medieval Italy: Identities, Political Initiatives, and Ways of (Self-) Representation / Gianmarco De Angelis 391
Citizenship and Contexts of Belonging: A Postscript / Claudia Rapp 417
Index nominum 421
Index rerum 434