This volume is the fruit of the collaboration between two French and international research teams: one at Paris, under the UMR 8210 ANHIMA of the French National Research Center (CNRS), co-directed by Clara Berrendonner and Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni (EMIRE program), the other at Clermont-Ferrand, under the University Blaise Pascal History Center "Space and Cultures" (CHEC), coordinated by Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni and Laurent Lamoine (under the program "Local Powers Since Antiquity). Municipal Praxis in the Roman West presents the work of three years of research (2008-2010) on the functioning of local towns in the western early Roman Empire, with points of comparison with the Greek world and in medieval Europe. This study presents the results of the 2009 meeting of the EMIRE program, dedicated to the importance of literary sources in the understanding of local administration in Clermont-Ferrand (2008-2010) dedicated to the relations between local powers and sanctuaries and the place of the written word in municipal practices.
