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Banishment in the Later Roman Empire, 284-476 CE EDU008000 make the book easy toThis book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment in the final era of a unified Roman Empire, 284 476 CE. Author Daniel Washburn argues that exile was both a penalty and a symbol. It applied to those who committed a misstep or crossed the wrong person; it also stood as a marker of affliction or failure. Like other punishments, it articulated and cemented the power asymmetry between the punisher and the punished. Distinctively, it