(Source: Mohr Siebeck)
Brill is publishing a new book on
administrative communication channels in the late Roman Empire.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Lukas Lemcke challenges the
conventional understanding of the Late Roman administration as a three-tiered system
by demonstrating that its hierarchy of communication was distinctly two-tiered.
In so doing, he offers a new perspective on the functional and organizational
structure of this administrative system and advances our understanding of the
vicariate by introducing a new functional dimension and by reassessing its
development during the fifth and early sixth centuries. Based on a
comprehensive collection of legal, epigraphic and other literary documents to
which the concept of »formal communication« is applied, the author explores the
forms and development of administrative communication channels that facilitated
the official exchange of information from Constantine to Justinian and thus
reveals how emperors actively sought to regulate the centripetal and centrifugal
flow of official information.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lukas Lemcke Born
1990; 2012 BA (Classical Studies) and 2013 MA (Ancient Mediterranean Cultures),
University of Waterloo, Canada; 2014–19 PhD studies in Ancient History,
University of Cologne.
The table of contents can be
found here
More info here
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