La parola scritta al servizio dell'imperatore e dell'impero: l'ab epistulis e l'a libellis nel II secolo d.C

Abstract

This study fills a gap in the administrative history of the early Roman Empire by focusing on two offices of the imperial administration responsible for communication between the emperor and the provinces (i.e. ab epistulis and a libellis) and by carrying out, for the first time, an in-depth and comprehensive research combining the prosopographic method with the documents issued by these offices and handed down in papyrological and epigraphical sources.