Fresh Light on Roman Bureaucracy an Inaugural Lecture, Delivered Before the University of Oxford, on March II (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Henry Stuart Jones

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0267635656 ISBN 13: 9780267635658

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how a key ancient document reveals the workings of Roman Egypt’s bureaucracy and its influence on public life.

The book presents an inaugural lecture that examines a newly studied ancient text and what it tells us about government, law, and worship in the Roman world. It blends philology with history to show how administrative rules shaped daily life, taxation, and temple finance across Egypt and the empire.

Readers will see how scholars revise long-held views, using inscriptions, papyri, and carefully dated sources to reinterpret official titles, duties, and penalties. The discussion moves from civil administration to the church, revealing where fiscal concerns and religious practice intersected in imperial policy.

• How the Gnomon and other documents illuminate the roles of fiscal officials and temple administrations
• Ways in which ancient legal language and nomenclature reveal administrative practices
• Examples of penalties, registries, and regulations that governed tax, property, and worship
• How modern scholarship reinterprets classical texts to revise earlier conclusions

Ideal for readers interested in ancient history, Roman bureaucracy, and Egyptology, this edition offers a focused study of governance in a pivotal period.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0267635656
• ISBN 13: 9780267635658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48