Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt

The Rise and Fall of the Roman world (abbreviated ANRW ) is a comprehensive scientific book series that deals with the Roman Empire.

History of the work

The number in 1972 was founded originally as a Festschrift for the 75th birthday of the Ancient Historian Joseph Vogt. However, the work over time grew into a collective work of encyclopedic proportions. The series was initially Edited by Hildegard Temporini alone (Part I & II), and later by her together with Wolfgang Haase (Part II), the sole responsibility of issuing the series since the death Temporinis. It appears in the Berliner Verlag Walter de Gruyter, but will for some time - the last volume was published in 1998 - discontinued, since the publishing it in its present form at the time does not want to continue.

Content

The ANRW is an international joint venture of the ancient and historical sciences. The task is to deal with all important aspects of the ancient Roman world, and their continuing influence and afterlife in medieval and modern times in the current state of research in individual contributions. The history of the reception and impact of Roman antiquity to the present day is an important part of the work. However, almost all areas of Roman antiquity and many allied disciplines are handled: Political history, cultural history, law, religion, language and literature, philosophy, science, technology and art.

Construction

The series is designed as a multi -part work. The Series I (Part 1 1972/73 ) deals in 4 volumes with the Roman Republic, Series II ( published since 1974) with the Roman Empire, Series III with the late antiquity ( in planning) and Series IV is finally with index volumes the work decide. Each part consists of several volumes, which in turn often part of several volumes.

Each row consists of six sub-areas:

The individual (partial) volumes have manual character. The articles are now over 1000 skilled scientists (especially in the fields of Ancient, Medieval and Modern History, Byzantine Studies, Slavic Studies, Classical, Medieval Latin, Roman and Oriental Philology, Classical, Oriental and Christian archeology and art history, jurisprudence, religious studies and theology, especially Church History and Patristics contributed ). Languages ​​are German, English, French and Italian.