Le conquiste dei romani.

Wien, Oldenbourg Verlag 2001, cm.17x24, pp.271, brossura. Collana Mitteilungen Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. Ergänzungsband,39. Testo in tedesco.

Leiden, Brill 1998, cm.16x25, pp.347, 18 illustrazioni in bianco e nero fuori testo, legatura editoriale in tutta tela, con sopraccoperta, Collana The Roman Transformation of the Roman World,2. Between the fourth and the eight century, a number of 'experimental' polities had to create new forms of legitimacy and organisation to overcome a Roman world based on Empire, city and tribe. In the course of time, a new world developed that relied on Christendom, kingdom and people to pull an increased variety of local communities together. Of these three factors, the ethnic one certainly is the most elusive. This volume discusses the process of construction of ethnic identities. What did names, law, language, costume, burial rites, rhetoric, culture, royal representation or ideology mean, and to whom? This is the question that is common to the papers assembled here. Even though they span several centuries, and a geographic area from the Iberian peninsula to the Black Sea steppes, they all deal with the ways how ethnic distinction became a political factor in the post-Roman world.

Introductory Essay, Text, Translation and Historiographical Notes. Cambridge, Francis Cairns 1985, cm.14x22, pp.307, legatura editoriale con sopraccoperta. Collana ARCA. Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs,17. Testo in inglese. Prima edizione. Almost all of the very little we know of Menander comes from the preface of his History. Having studied the law, Menander did not become an advocate, preferring instead to become a 'man-about-town'. He was saved from this life of degradation by the accession of the poetry and history enthusiast Emperor Maurice, and the rewards that being a writer could now bring. Whether his History was commissioned by the Emperor is not known, but he was certainly given some high-level encouragement. Menander's portrayal of Justin is more even-handed than most, but his approval of Tiberius is much more effusive, especially with regard to his Persian policy. Overall, Menander's main interest seems to have been Roman relations with foreign peoples - Persians and Avars, particularly - and his depiction of the Persian state as being equal to Rome was prophetic, both empires disappearing less than a century after he was writing.

Trieste, Editreg 2006, cm.17x24, pp.480, alcune illustrazioni in bianco e nero, brossura con sopraccoperta figurata a colori. Collana Fonti e Studi per la Storia della Venezia Giulia. Studi,11.