Michael Maaß: The Conqueror’s Gift. Roman Ethnography and the End of Antiquity (reviewed by Michael Whitby)

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Document type
Review (monograph)
Journal
Plekos. Elektronische Zeitschrift für Rezensionen und Berichte zur Erforschung der Spätantike
Pages
535-549
Author (Review)
Language(s) (review)
English
Language(s) (reviewed text)
English
Authors
Title
The Conqueror’s Gift
Subtitle
Roman Ethnography and the End of Antiquity
Year of publication
2025
Place of publication
Princeton
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
XV, 432
ISBN
978-0-691-25902-4
Subject classification
Ancient History
Time classification
1st - 5th century AD
Regional classification
Roman Empire
Subject heading
Spätanike
Ethnologie
Herrschaft
Polybius
Tacitus, Cornelius
Original source URL
https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2025/r-maas.pdf
recensio-Date
Apr 09, 2026
recensio-ID
5b62ba317d7042edada3d9f06c5d4948

Whitby, Michael: review of: Michael Maaß, The Conqueror’s Gift. Roman Ethnography and the End of Antiquity, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025, in: Plekos. Elektronische Zeitschrift für Rezensionen und Berichte zur Erforschung der Spätantike, 27 (2025), p. 535-549

URL
https://www.propylaeum.de/recensio-antiquitatis/rezensionen/zeitschriften/plekos/27-2025/the-conquerors-gift-1
First published
https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2025/r-maas.pdf

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