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The colonization policies of Ancient Rome followed a range of legal arrangements concerning property distribution and state formation, documented in fragmented textual and epigraphic sources. When antiquarian scholars rediscovered and scrutinized these sources in the Renaissance, theiranalysis of the Roman colonial model formed the intellectual background for modern visions of empire. What does it mean to exercise power at and over distance?This book foregrounds the pioneering contribution to this debate of the great Italian Renaissance scholar Carlo Sigonio (1522/3-84). His comprehensive legal interpretation of Roman society and Roman colonization, which for more than two centuries remained the leading account of Roman history, hasbeen of immense (but long disregarded) significance for the modern understanding of Roman colonial practices and of the legal organization and implications of empire.Bringing together experts on Roman history, the history of classical scholarship, and the
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