Roman Scandal
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Roman Scandal
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Author : Frank H. Wallis
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-02-03
Roman Scandal written by Frank H. Wallis and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-03 with Rome categories.
The subject of Roman scandal has been recounted at various points in all histories of Rome, but not in one unified place. Roman scandal often depended on the social class, not to mention the sex, of the perpetrator and that of the victim. As we survey the thousand year history of Rome and its western rump state stumbling into final oblivion in 476, one notes that it ran on the fuel of extreme violence and brutality, such as most modern people in the West have not had to deal with, at least since Hitler was defeated in 1945. Romans were continuously at war with foreigners, against tribes beyond the pale, and with each other in civil strife, for centuries. When the ruling elite were not plundering abroad to fuel the empire, they were plotting and killing each other in the palace, the Senate, and the Forum. In fact, they often combined the two pursuits all at once. Plunder gave them wealth and slaves, and with wealth came leisure, and in their leisure the Romans chose to entertain themselves with blood spectacles. Men and women fought to the death as gladiators in the Colosseum and hippodrome, and wild animals were killed for fun. Surely the depravity and excess that took place under the emperors proves not that success and luxury assured the empire's destruction, as Livy feared, but that the empire could function well enough to last several centuries, despite moral and political anarchy at the very top. Historian of empire, Dr. Frank H. Wallis, makes a valuable contribution to Roman studies based on the ancient authorities, including Tacitus, Suetonius, Herodian, Livy, Plutarch, Zosimus, Ammianus, Dio, Eutropius, Zonares, Josephus.
50 Roman Mistresses
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Author : Tansy Rayner Roberts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
50 Roman Mistresses written by Tansy Rayner Roberts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Mistresses categories.
The Art Of Scandal
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Author : Sean Latham
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-13
The Art Of Scandal written by Sean Latham and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Art of Scandal advances a relatively simple claim with far-reaching consequences for modernist studies: writers and readers throughout the early twentieth century revived the long-despised codes and habits of the roman á clef as a key part of that larger assault on Victorian realism we now call modernism. In the process, this resurgent genre took on a life of its own, reconfiguring the intricate relationship between literature, celebrity, and the law. Sean Latham summons cases of the novel's social notoriety--and the numerous legal scandals the form provoked--to articulate the material networks of reception and circulation through which modernism took shape, revealing a little explored popular history within its development. Producers as well as consumers used elements of the controversial roman á clef, a genre that challenges the idea of fiction as autonomous from the social and political world. In turn, this widespread practice provoked not only a generative aesthetic crisis, but also a gradually unfolding legal quandary that led Britain's highest courts to worry that fiction itself might be illegal. Modernism sat squarely, for a time, between literature and the law. With skillful close readings aided by extensive archival research, Latham illuminates the world of backbiting, gossip, litigation, and sensationalism through chapters on Oscar Wilde's trial, Joyce's Ulysses, celebrity salons, and Parisian bohemia. Original, colorful, and perceptive, The Art of Scandal both salvages the reputation of the roman á clef form and traces its curious itinerary through the early twentieth century. Seeking out the best new interdisciplinary work, this series explores the cultural bearings of literary modernism across multiple fields, geographies, symbolic forms, and media.
To Light A Roman Scandal
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Author : Marshall D. Craig
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2004-12-07
To Light A Roman Scandal written by Marshall D. Craig and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-07 with Religion categories.
This is a book of information and is dedicated to the propagation of the truth as found in God's Word, the Holy Bible, and sent forth with the hope that it will help meet the needs of the Church in these last days of great religious apostasy, and give honor and glory to our Father in heaven, and his only begotten Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ.
The Art Of Scandal
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Author : Sean Latham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Art Of Scandal written by Sean Latham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with English fiction categories.
Latham proposes that writers and readers throughout the early 20th century revived the codes and habits of the roman à clef as part of a larger assault on Victorian realism - modernism. He elaborates a concept of modernism that weaves coterie culture with the mass media, psychology with celebrity, and literature with the law.
A Roman Scandal
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Author : Susanne Kircher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
A Roman Scandal written by Susanne Kircher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Rome (Italy) categories.
A Scandalous History Of The Roman Emperors
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Author : Anthony Blond
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 1994
A Scandalous History Of The Roman Emperors written by Anthony Blond and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Rome's five most illustrious emperors march boldly through the pages of this eye-opening account of the successors to Julius Caesar. Besides chronicling their marriages, adulteries, conspiracies, murders, nasty habits, and refined tastes, this volume illuminates the social and political life of Rome in the first century A.D.
The Montesi Scandal
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Author : Karen Pinkus
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2003-05
The Montesi Scandal written by Karen Pinkus and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05 with History categories.
Early on a windy morning in April 1953, the body of a young woman washed up on a beach outside of Rome. Her name was Wilma Montesi, and, as the papers reported, she had left her home in the city center a day earlier, alone. The police called her death an accidental drowning. But the public was not convinced. In the cafés around the Via Veneto, people began to speak-of the son of a powerful politician, lavish parties, movie stars, orgies, drugs. How this news item of everyday life exploded into one of the greatest scandals of a modern democracy is the story Karen Pinkus tells in The Montesi Scandal. Wilma's death brought to the surface every simmering element of Italian culture: bitter aspiring actresses, corrupt politicians, nervous Jesuits in sunglasses, jaded princes. Italians of all types lined up to testify-in court or to journalists of varying legitimacy-about the death of the middle-class carpenter's daughter, in the process creating a media frenzy and the modern culture of celebrity. Witnesses sold their stories to the tabloids, only to retract them. They posed for pictures, pretending to shun the spotlight. And they in turn became celebrities in their own right. Pinkus takes us through the alleys and entryways of Rome in the 1950s, linking Wilma's death to the beginnings of the dolce vita, now synonymous with modern Roman life. Pinkus follows the first paparazzi on their scooters as they shoot the protagonists and gives us an insider's view of the stories and trials that came to surround this lonely figure that washed up on the shores of Ostia. Full of the magnificent paparazzi photos of the protagonists in the drama and film stills from the era's landmark movies, The Montesi Scandal joins true crime with "high" culture in an original form, one true to both the period and the cinematic conception of life it created. More than a meditation of the intricate ties among movies, paparazzo photography, and Italian culture, The Montesi Scandal narrates Wilma's story and its characters as the notes for an unrealized film, but one that, as the reader discovers, seems impossible to produce.
Scandal
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Author : Angela Senander
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Scandal written by Angela Senander and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Religion categories.
The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize - winning coverage of clergy sexual abuse of minors in 2002 led to what few would hesitate to call the most significant scandal in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. In contrast, Catholics themselves disagree about whether the voting records of some Catholic politicians or the particular policies and practices of Catholic institutions might be called scandalous. Such questions often both reflect and intensify divisions within the Catholic community. Whether understood as negative public relations or as an action, attitude, law, or institution influencing another to sin, scandal affects the Catholic Church's proclamation of the good news of God's saving love. This makes theological reflection about scandal an essential aspect of being Catholic today. Failure to engage in this reflection risks truncating the tradition and obscuring the Good News. This book invites this reflection in order to understand differences in perception and judgment, make appropriate courses of action more clear, and enable Catholics to participate more effectively and authentically as a faith community in public life.
Scandal
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Author : Alison Dagnes
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-12-05
Scandal written by Alison Dagnes and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-05 with Political Science categories.
There are many types of political scandals: sex, corruption, and election scandals are but a few. Political scandals are public events that have tremendous consequence on citizenry and can undermine democratic institutions-when we pay attention to scandal, we risk ignoring weightier matters. This volume brings together an array of academics to explore the impact of political scandals. What makes this book different from others is the wide spectrum of perspectives brought together to help analyze a single subject.