Consensus Concordia And The Formation Of Roman Imperial Ideology

Author : John Alexander Lobur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135867522

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Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology by John Alexander Lobur Pdf

This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to ‘legitimate’ and ‘traditional’ forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these notions become explicated and reconfigured by the upper and mostly non-political classes of Italy and Rome. The chronic turmoil experienced in the late republic shaped the values and program of the imperial system; it molded the comprehensive and authoritative accounts of Roman tradition and history in a way that allowed the system to appear both traditional and historical. This book also examines how shifts in rhetorical and historiographical practices facilitated the spreading and assimilation of shared ideas that allowed the empire to cohere.

Author : John Alexander Lobur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135867539

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Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology by John Alexander Lobur Pdf

This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to ‘legitimate’ and ‘traditional’ forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these notions become explicated and reconfigured by the upper and mostly non-political classes of Italy and Rome. The chronic turmoil experienced in the late republic shaped the values and program of the imperial system; it molded the comprehensive and authoritative accounts of Roman tradition and history in a way that allowed the system to appear both traditional and historical. This book also examines how shifts in rhetorical and historiographical practices facilitated the spreading and assimilation of shared ideas that allowed the empire to cohere.

Author : Clifford Ando
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520280168

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Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire by Clifford Ando Pdf

The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever-fashionable question, Why did the Roman empire fall? Rather, he asks, Why did the empire last so long? Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified. This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando investigates the mechanisms that sustained this conversation, explores its contribution to the legitimation of Roman power, and reveals as its product the provincial absorption of the forms and content of Roman political and legal discourse. Throughout, his sophisticated and subtle reading is informed by current thinking on social formation by theorists such as Max Weber, Jürgen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu.

Author : Celene Lillie
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506414379

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The Rape of Eve by Celene Lillie Pdf

Sex, violence, power, and redemption. In recent decades, scholars of New Testament and early Christian traditions have given new attention to the relationships between gender and imperial power in the Roman world. In this surprising work, Celene Lillie examines core passages from three Gnostic texts from Nag Hammadi, On the Origin of the World, The Reality of the Rulers, and the Secret Revelation of John, in which Eve is portrayed as having been humiliated by the cosmic powers, yet experiencing restoration. Lillie compares that pattern with Gnostic savior motifs concerning Jesus and Seth, then sets it in the broader context of Roman cosmogonic myths at play in imperial ideology. The Nag Hammadi texts, she argues, offer us a window into symbolic forms of Christian resistance to imperial ideology. This groundbreaking study highlights the importance of the Nag Hammadi writings for our fuller appreciation of the currents of Christian response to the Roman Empire and the culture of rape pervasive within it.

Author : Nicholas Aroney,Professor of Constitutional Law Nicholas Aroney,Emeritus Professor of Law Ian Leigh,Ian Leigh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : 9780197587256

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Christianity and Constitutionalism by Nicholas Aroney,Professor of Constitutional Law Nicholas Aroney,Emeritus Professor of Law Ian Leigh,Ian Leigh Pdf

The first volume of its kind, Christianity and Constitutionalism explores the contribution of Christianity to constitutional law and constitutionalism as viewed from the perspectives of history, law, and theology. The authors examine a wide range of key figures, including Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Moses, Martin Luther, and Roger Williams, offering innovative and thoughtful analyses of the relationship between religious thought and constitutional law. Part I features contributions from historians and is focused on the historical influence of Christianity on constitutionalism, recounting how the relationship between the Christian faith and fundamental ideas about law, justice, and government has evolved from era to era. Part II offers the analyses of constitutional lawyers, focusing on the normative implications of Christianity for particular themes or topics in constitutional law. The chapters in this section orbit around several central doctrines and principles of this field--including sovereignty, the rule of law, democracy, the separation of powers, human rights, conscience, and federalism--evaluating them from a range of Christian perspectives. Part III rounds out the study with theologians focused on particular Christian doctrines, exploring their constructive and sometimes critical implications for constitutionalism. As a whole, Christianity and Constitutionalism breaks new ground by offering wide-ranging, interdisciplinary contributions to the study of the relationship between the Christian religion and constitutional law.

Author : Hannah Cornwell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192528131

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Pax and the Politics of Peace by Hannah Cornwell Pdf

Perhaps in defiance of expectations, Roman peace (pax) was a difficult concept that resisted any straightforward definition: not merely denoting the absence or aftermath of war, it consisted of many layers and associations and formed part of a much greater discourse on the nature of power and how Rome saw her place in the world. During the period from 50 BC to AD 75 - covering the collapse of the Republic, the subsequent civil wars, and the dawn of the Principate-the traditional meaning and language of peace came under extreme pressure as pax was co-opted to serve different strands of political discourse. This volume argues for its fundamental centrality in understanding the changing dynamics of the state and the creation of a new political system in the Roman Empire, moving from the debates over the content of the concept in the dying Republic to discussion of its deployment in the legitimization of the Augustan regime, first through the creation of an authorized version controlled by the princeps and then the ultimate crystallization of the pax augusta as the first wholly imperial concept of peace. Examining the nuances in the various meanings, applications, and contexts of Roman discourse on peace allows us valuable insight into the ways in which the dynamics of power were understood and how these were contingent on the political structures of the day. However it also demonstrates that although the idea of peace came to dominate imperial Rome's self-representation, such discourse was nevertheless only part of a wider discussion on the way in which the Empire conceptualized itself.

Author : Caillan Davenport,Shushma Malik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192869265

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Representing Rome's Emperors by Caillan Davenport,Shushma Malik Pdf

Representing Rome's Emperors brings together an international team of experts to examine the literary and artistic representations of Roman emperors across more than two thousand years of history, breaking down traditional disciplinary boundaries that have separated the study of emperors in antiquity from their representation in later periods.

Author : Kaius Tuori
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198744450

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The Emperor of Law by Kaius Tuori Pdf

In the days of the Roman Empire, the emperor was considered not only the ruler of the state, but also its supreme legal authority, fulfilling the multiple roles of supreme court, legislator, and administrator. The Emperor of Law explores how the emperor came to assume the mantle of a judge, beginning with Augustus, the first emperor, and spanning the years leading up to Caracalla and the Severan dynasty. While earlier studies have attempted to explain this change either through legislation or behavior, this volume undertakes a novel analysis of the gradual expansion and elaboration of the emperor's adjudication and jurisdiction: by analyzing the process through historical narratives, it argues that the emergence of imperial adjudication was a discourse that involved not only the emperors, but also petitioners who sought their rulings, lawyers who aided them, the senatorial elite, and the Roman historians and commentators who described it. Stories of emperors settling lawsuits and demonstrating their power through law, including those depicting mad emperors engaging in violent repressions, played an important part in creating a shared conviction that the emperor was indeed the supreme judge alongside the empirical shift in the legal and political dynamic. Imperial adjudication reflected equally the growth of imperial power during the Principate and the centrality of the emperor in public life, and constitutional legitimation was thus created through the examples of previous actions--examples that historical authors did much to shape. Aimed at readers of classics, Roman law, and ancient history, The Emperor of Law offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the much debated problem of the advent of imperial supremacy in law that illuminates the importance of narrative studies to the field of legal history.

Author : Daniel R. Woolf,Andrew Feldherr,Grant Hardy,Ian Hesketh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199218158

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The Oxford History of Historical Writing by Daniel R. Woolf,Andrew Feldherr,Grant Hardy,Ian Hesketh Pdf

A chronological scholarly survey of the history of historical writing in five volumes. Each volume covers a particular period of time, from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.

Author : Ellen O'Gorman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350095502

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Tacitus’ History of Politically Effective Speech by Ellen O'Gorman Pdf

This study examines how Tacitus' representation of speech determines the roles of speakers within the political sphere, and explores the possibility of politically effective speech in the principate. It argues against the traditional scholarly view that Tacitus refuses to offer a positive view of senatorial power in the principate: while senators did experience limitations and changes to what they could achieve in public life, they could aim to create a dimension of political power and efficacy through speeches intended to create and sustain relations which would in turn determine the roles played by both senators or an emperor. Ellen O'Gorman traces Tacitus' own charting of these modes of speech, from flattery and aggression to advice, praise, and censure, and explores how different modes of speech in his histories should be evaluated: not according to how they conform to pre-existing political stances, but as they engender different political worlds in the present and future. The volume goes beyond literary analysis of the texts to create a new framework for studying this essential period in ancient Roman history, much in the same way that Tacitus himself recasts the political authority and presence of senatorial speakers as narrative and historical analysis.

Author : Ingo Gildenhard,Ulrich Gotter,Wolfgang Havener,Louise Hodgson
Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780956838186

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Augustus and the destruction of history by Ingo Gildenhard,Ulrich Gotter,Wolfgang Havener,Louise Hodgson Pdf

Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here analyse how different authors and agents (individual and collective) developed specific conceptions of history and articulated them in a wide variety of textual and visual media to position themselves within the emergent (and evolving) new Augustan normal. The chapters consider both hegemonic and subaltern endeavours to reconfigure Roman memoria and pay special attention to power and polemics, chaos, crisis and contingency – not least to challenge some long-standing habits of thought about Augustus and his principate and its representation in historiographical discourse, ancient and modern. Some of the most iconic texts and monuments from ancient Rome receive fresh discussion here, including the Forum Romanum and the Forum of Augustus, Virgil’s Aeneid and the Fasti Capitolini.

Author : Panayiotis Christoforou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009362498

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Imagining the Roman Emperor by Panayiotis Christoforou Pdf

Explores how Roman emperors were perceived by their subjects in the first two centuries after Augustus.

Author : John Alexander Lobur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015058863377

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Consensus and Concordia in the Formation of the Roman Principate and Their Resonance in Early Imperial Prose by John Alexander Lobur Pdf

Author : Mario Baghos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527567375

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From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium by Mario Baghos Pdf

This book combines concepts from the history of religions with Byzantine studies in its assessments of kings, symbols, and cities in a diachronic and cross-cultural analysis. The work attests, firstly, that the symbolic art and architecture of ancient cities—commissioned by their monarchs expressing their relationship with their gods—show us that religiosity was inherent to such enterprises. It also demonstrates that what transpired from the first cities in history to Byzantine Christendom is the gradual replacement of the pagan ruler cult—which was inherent to city-building in antiquity—with the ruler becoming subordinate to Christ; exemplified by representations of the latter as the ‘Master of All’ (Pantokrator). Beginning in Mesopotamia, the book continues with an analysis of city-building by rulers in Egypt, Greece, and Rome, before addressing Judaism (specifically, the city of Jerusalem) and Christianity as shifting the emphasis away from pagan-gods and rulers to monotheistic perceptions of God as elevated above worldly kings. It concludes with an assessment of Christian Rome and Constantinople as typifying the evolution from the ancient and classical world to Christendom.

Author : Pina Polo, Francisco
Publisher : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9788413400969

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The triumviral period: civil war, political crisis and socioeconomic transformations by Pina Polo, Francisco Pdf

Nothing from the subsequent Augustan age can be fully explained without understanding the previous Triumviral period (43-31 BC). In this book, twenty experts from nine different countries and nineteen universities examine the Triumviral age not merely as a phase of transition to the Principate but as a proper period with its own dynamics and issues, which were a consequence of the previous years. The volume aims to address a series of underlying structural problems that emerged in that time, such as the legal nature of power attributed to the Triumvirs; changes and continuity in Republican institutions, both in Rome and the provinces of the Empire; the development of the very concept of civil war; the strategies of political communication and propaganda in order to win over public opinion; economic consequences for Rome and Italy, whether caused by the damage from constant wars or, alternatively, resulting from the proscriptions and confiscations carried out by the Triumvirs; and the transformation of Roman-Italian society. All these studies provide a complete, fresh and innovative picture of a key period that signaled the end of the Roman Republic.