Lecture: Competing Citizenships in the Roman Empire

Prof. Cédric Brélaz (University of Fribourg) will give a lecture titled Competing Citizenships in the Roman Empire: communis patria vs local patris. It is a general assumption in scholarship that Roman citizenship would have been largely widespread through the provinces already before the Constitutio Antoniniana was issued in 212 CE and that its significance would have consequently…