The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire ― Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire

The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire assembles a series of papers on key themes of Roman mobility and migration, discussing i.a. the mobility of the army, of the elite, of women, and war-induced mobility and deportations.

Elio Lo Cascio is Professor of Roman history at Sapienza Universita di Roma. His main areas of research are the institutional, administrative and economic history of Rome, and Roman population history. His recent publications include Il princeps e il suo impero. Studi di storia amministrativa e finanziaria romana (2000); Crescita e declino. Studi di storia dell’economia romana (2009), and the edited volume Roma imperiale. Una metropoli antica (2010).Laurens E. Tacoma is lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University. He has written about Roman social mobility, demography, economy and labour, local elites and urbanisation. More recently, he worked in a larger research project entitled ‘Moving Romans. Migration, Labour and Urbanisation in Roman Italy’; one of its outcomes is his recent monograph Moving Romans. Migration to Rome in the Principate (Oxford 2016). New research concerns Roman political culture in Italy from the Principate to Late Antiquity.Contributors are: Stephane Benoist, Anthony R. Birley, Lukas de Blois, Margherita Carucci, Elio Lo Cascio, Werner Eck, Gil Gambash, Peter Herz, Elena Koestner, Claudia Moatti, Laurens E. Tacoma, Elena Torregaray Pagola and Greg Woolf.