La République romaine face aux crises, tome 2

Resiliarein Latin refers to the action of "jumping back" but also  of "rebounding", and, therefore, of "resisting". This very property seems to characterize both the time of the Second Punic War and the Civil Wars of the end of the Republic. These two "events" have been unanimously considered as traumatic moments, affected by deep structural upheavals. And yet, according to the sources, the institutions and the actors of the Roman Republic would have found, in these times of horror and devastation, the necessary resources to maintain the res publica and even to regenerate it. 

In order to revisit these two apparently destructive episodes a five-year research program (2019-2023) was conceived within the ANHIMA laboratory and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne : this book presents these results. With the aim of integrating the new approaches that have emerged since the publication of Arnold Toynbee's Hannibal's Legacy and Ronald Syme's The Roman Revolution, the purpose has been to (re)question these two conflicts and their impacts.

The war against Hannibal as well as the conflicts between imperatores constitute two privileged fields of exploration for the detection of innovations and permanences, resilience and recompositions of all kinds. The cross-analyses of some forty specialists from various thematic and regional backgrounds have made possible, in the course of five annual workshops, to reconsider the term "crisis" by exploring the mechanisms of safeguarding and adaptation that these "fluid political conjunctures" were able to produce.

While the first volume focused on the mutations and reconfigurations at work in the military and political spheres, this work explores the socio-economic ruptures and experiments, the effervescence and exacerbations of identity, culture and religion during these two tormented periods.