Rethinking Roman History
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Rethinking Roman History
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Author : J. P. Toner
language : en
Publisher: The Oleander Press
Release Date : 2002
Rethinking Roman History written by J. P. Toner and has been published by The Oleander Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
What is the study of Roman history all about? What are its aims? What is its place within the discipline of Classics? These and many other questions are asked by Jerry Toner who has seen many changes in the field of Roman history since he first emerged from Cambridge as a budding Roman historian. This short book looks at the transformations that have taken place in research methodology and in the nature of the discipline in recent times. One for the undergraduate.
Rethinking Roman Alliance
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Author : Bill Gladhill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-31
Rethinking Roman Alliance written by Bill Gladhill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-31 with History categories.
Explores the vital links between social order and cosmology by examining the concept of foedus in Roman religion and literature.
Rethinking The Roman City
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Author : Dunia Filippi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-03-30
Rethinking The Roman City written by Dunia Filippi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-30 with History categories.
The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship between physical and social networks of meaning. This volume explores this in relation to approaches and methodologies in the study of urban space in Roman Italy. As a consequence of these new imperatives, sociological studies on ancient Roman cities are flourishing, demonstrating a new set of approaches that have developed separately from "traditional" historical and topographical analyses. Rethinking the Roman City represents a convergence of these different approaches to propose a new interpretive model, looking at the Roman city and one of its key elements: the forum. After an introductory discussion of methodological issues, internationally-know specialists consider three key sites of the Roman world – Rome, Ostia and Pompeii. Chapters focus on physical space and/or the use of those spaces to inter-relate these different approaches. The focus then moves to the Forum Romanum, considering the possible analytical trajectories available (historical, topographical, literary, comparative and sociological), and the diversity of possible perspectives within each of these, moving towards an innovative understanding of the role of the forum within the Roman city. This volume will be of great value to scholars of ancient cities across the Roman world, well as historians of urban society and development throughout the ancient world.
Theodosius Ii
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Author : Christopher Kelly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Theodosius Ii written by Christopher Kelly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Rome categories.
A fresh look at the vitality and integrity of the eastern Roman Empire under its longest reigning emperor.
Theodosius Ii
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Author : Christopher Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-08
Theodosius Ii written by Christopher Kelly and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-08 with History categories.
Theodosius II (AD 408–450) was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Ever since Edward Gibbon, he has been dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual. Yet Theodosius ruled an empire which retained its integrity while the West was broken up by barbarian invasions. This book explores Theodosius' challenges and successes. Ten essays by leading scholars of late antiquity provide important new insights into the court at Constantinople, the literary and cultural vitality of the reign, and the presentation of imperial piety and power. Much attention has been directed towards the changes promoted by Constantine at the beginning of the fourth century; much less to their crystallisation under Theodosius II. This volume explores the working out of new conceptions of the Roman Empire - its history, its rulers and its God. A substantial introduction offers a new framework for thinking afresh about the long transition from the classical world to Byzantium.
Belief And Cult
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Author : Jacob L. Mackey
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-02
Belief And Cult written by Jacob L. Mackey and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-02 with History categories.
A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn’t absent from—but rather was at the heart of—Roman religion Belief and Cult argues that belief isn’t uniquely Christian but was central to ancient Roman religion. Drawing on cognitive theory, Jacob Mackey shows that despite having nothing to do with salvation or faith, belief underlay every aspect of Roman religious practices—emotions, individual and collective cult action, ritual norms, social reality, and social power. In doing so, he also offers a thorough argument for the importance of belief to other non-Christian religions. At the individual level, the book argues, belief played an indispensable role in the genesis of cult action and religious emotion. However, belief also had a collective dimension. The cognitive theory of Shared Intentionality shows how beliefs may be shared among individuals, accounting for the existence of written, unwritten, or even unspoken ritual norms. Shared beliefs permitted the choreography of collective cult action and gave cult acts their social meanings. The book also elucidates the role of shared belief in creating and maintaining Roman social reality. Shared belief allowed the Romans to endow agents, actions, and artifacts with socio-religious status and power. In a deep sense, no man could count as an augur and no act of animal slaughter as a successful offering to the gods, unless Romans collectively shared appropriate beliefs about these things. Closely examining augury, prayer, the religious enculturation of children, and the Romans’ own theories of cognition and cult, Belief and Cult promises to revolutionize the understanding of Roman religion by demonstrating that none of its features makes sense without Roman belief.
Rethinking Revolutions Through Ancient Greece
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Author : Simon Goldhill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-09-28
Rethinking Revolutions Through Ancient Greece written by Simon Goldhill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-28 with History categories.
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Rome And The Colonial City
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Author : Sofia Greaves
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Rome And The Colonial City written by Sofia Greaves and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.
Cicero S Law
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Author : Paul J. du Plessis
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-30
Cicero S Law written by Paul J. du Plessis and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-30 with Law categories.
This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic - a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic.
Rethinking Constantine
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Author : Edward L Smither
language : en
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Release Date : 2014-08-28
Rethinking Constantine written by Edward L Smither and has been published by James Clarke & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-28 with History categories.
Constantine's life - his career, faith and relationship to the church - raises questions for Christians and for historians that cannot be ignored. Scholars continue to be intrigued with Constantine the man, the influence he wielded over the church and the paradigm that he introduced for church-state relations. Seventeen hundred years after Constantine's victory at Milvian Bridge, Rethinking Constantine reinvigorates the conversation and examines the historical sources that inform our picture ofConstantine, the theological developments that occurred in the wake of his rise to power and the aspects of Constantine's legacy that have shaped church history. Rethinking Constantine reassesses our picture of Constantine through careful historicalenquiry within the scope of the early Christian period.