Pervading Empire addresses the issue of diversity within the Roman Empire and promotes
interpretations that go beyond general and often abstract theoretical framings. The baseline of
the volume is the notion that reality is created by the endless and multi-directional relations
of different human and inhuman actors and that the sorts and modes of correlations create
specific phenomena. The volume offers a variety of theoretically and methodologically
well-informed geographical chronological and thematic case studies written by established and
emerging specialists in the field of Roman Studies on a range of different research questions
such as the integration in the Roman world inter-cultural perceptions (mis)communications
transfers and exchanges transformations of social structures and landscape patterns of
consumption and related identities and the dynamics in the sphere of religion among others.
Thereby Pervading Empire demonstrates the complex and fluctuating nature of the Roman world
and emphasizes the fertility of such approaches within Roman Studies.
