Policing the Roman Empire
Subtitle: soldiers, administration, and public order
By: Christopher J. Fuhrmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780199737840
Subjects: Politics and government; Police; Social control; Roman Magistrates; Social conditions; Soldiers; History; Roman provinces
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-293) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Roman emperors from Augustus to Julian; title: Maps of the Roman Empire; title: "Arrest me, for I have run away": fugitive slave hunting in the Roman Empire; title: "Like a thief in the night": self-help, magisterial authority, and civilian policing; title: "I brought peace to the provinces": Augustus and the rhetoric of imperial peace; title: "To squelch the discord of the rabble": military policing in Rome and Italy under Augustus' successors; title: "Let there be no violence contrary to my wish": emperors and provincial order; title: "Keep your province pacified and quiet": provincial governors, public order, and policing; title: "Military stations throughout all provinces": detached-service soldier-police; title: Appendix: Differentiating stationarii from beneficiarii consulares and other detached-service soldiers.