Rome, Pontus, Thrace and the military disintegration of the world beyond the Hellenistic east / Toni Naco del Hoyo and Isaias Arrayas-Morales --Estranging the familiar-Rome's ambivalent approach to Britain / Gil Gambash -- Rome and Persia in the middle of the third century AD (230-266) / Lukas de Blois -- The emperor beyond the frontiers: a double-mirror as a 'political discourse' / Stephane Benoist -- Politics, economics, & society -- Turning the inside out : the divergent experiences of Gaul and Africa during the third century ad / Dan Hoyer -- Raiders to traders? Economics of integration among nomadic communities in North Africa / Wim Broekaert and Wouter Vanacker -- Transfer romischer Technik jenseits der Grenzen : Aneignung und Export / Gunther Schorner -- Perceptions from beyond: some observations on non-Roman assessments of the Roman Empire from the great eastern trade routes / Anne Kolb and Michael A. Speidel -- Hospitium : understanding 'ours' and 'theirs' on the Roman frontier / John Nicols -- Material culture and culture -- Palmyrenes in Transtiberim : integration in Rome and links to the eastern frontier / Blair Fowlkes-Childs -- Rival powers, rivals images : Diocletian's palace at Split in light of Sasanian palace design / Anne Hunnell Chen -- The reception of figurative art beyond the frontier: Scandinavian encounters with Roman numismatics / Nancy L. Wicker.