Power And Privilege In Roman Society

Author : Richard Duncan-Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1316716465

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Power and Privilege in Roman Society by Richard Duncan-Jones Pdf

"How far were appointments in the Roman Empire based on merit? Did experience matter? What difference did social rank make? This innovative study of the Principate examines the career outcomes of senators and knights by social category. Contrasting patterns emerge from a new database of senatorial careers. Although the highest appointments could reflect experience, a clear preference for the more aristocratic senators is also seen. Bias is visible even in the major army commands and in the most senior civilian posts nominally filled by ballot. In equestrian appointments, successes by the less experienced again suggest the power of social advantage. Senatorial recruitment gradually opened up to include many provincials but Italians still kept their hold on the higher social groupings. The book also considers the senatorial career more widely, while a final section examines slave careers and the phenomenon of voluntary slavery"--

Author : Richard Duncan-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107149793

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Power and Privilege in Roman Society by Richard Duncan-Jones Pdf

Explores the impact of social standing on the careers of senators and knights in the Roman Empire.

Author : Peter Garnsey
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015049478749

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Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman Empire by Peter Garnsey Pdf

Author : Janet Huskinson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0415212847

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Experiencing Rome by Janet Huskinson Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jared Secord
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271087641

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Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire by Jared Secord Pdf

Early in the third century, a small group of Greek Christians began to gain prominence and legitimacy as intellectuals in the Roman Empire. Examining the relationship that these thinkers had with the broader Roman intelligentsia, Jared Secord contends that the success of Christian intellectualism during this period had very little to do with Christianity itself. With the recognition that Christian authors were deeply engaged with the norms and realities of Roman intellectual culture, Secord examines the thought of a succession of Christian literati that includes Justin Martyr, Tatian, Julius Africanus, and Origen, comparing each to a diverse selection of his non-Christian contemporaries. Reassessing Justin’s apologetic works, Secord reveals Christian views on martyrdom to be less distinctive than previously believed. He shows that Tatian’s views on Greek culture informed his reception by Christians as a heretic. Finally, he suggests that the successes experienced by Africanus and Origen in the third century emerged as consequences not of any change in attitude toward Christianity by imperial authorities but of a larger shift in intellectual culture and imperial policies under the Severan dynasty. Original and erudite, this volume demonstrates how distorting the myopic focus on Christianity as a religion has been in previous attempts to explain the growth and success of the Christian movement. It will stimulate new research in the study of early Christianity, classical studies, and Roman history.

Author : Helen Rhee
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441238641

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Loving the Poor, Saving the Rich by Helen Rhee Pdf

The issue of wealth and poverty and its relationship to Christian faith is as ancient as the New Testament and reaches even further back to the Hebrew Scriptures. From the beginnings of the Christian movement, the issue of how to deal with riches and care for the poor formed an important aspect of Christian discipleship. This careful study shows how early Christians adopted, appropriated, and transformed the Jewish and Greco-Roman moral teachings and practices of giving and patronage. As Helen Rhee illuminates the early Christian understanding of wealth and poverty, she shows how it impacted the formation of Christian identity. She also demonstrates the ongoing relevance of early Christian thought and practice for the contemporary church.

Author : Sarah E. Rollens
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161531205

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Framing Social Criticism in the Jesus Movement by Sarah E. Rollens Pdf

Which milieu did the earliest rural Jesus movement emerge from? Sarah E. Rollens provides a sociological study of the earliest Christians in rural Palestine based on evidence in the Sayings Gospels Q. She compares this Jesus movement to other movements of social reform in similar socio-cultural contexts.

Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107032248

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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic by Harriet I. Flower Pdf

This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

Author : W. V. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107152717

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Roman Power by W. V. Harris Pdf

This book explains the growth, durability and eventual shrinkage of Roman imperial power alongside the Roman state's internal power structures.

Author : William Vernon Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1316685772

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Roman Power by William Vernon Harris Pdf

This book explains the growth, durability and eventual shrinkage of Roman imperial power alongside the Roman state's internal power structures.

Author : Ernst Eckstein
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338051011

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Quintus Claudius, Vol. I by Ernst Eckstein Pdf

Quintus Claudius, Volume I by Ernst Eckstein is about the adventures of Herodianus on the rocks of Capreae. Excerpt: "It was in Rome itself, in the sublime solemnity of the Colosseum, among the ruins of the palaces of the Caesars and crumbling pillars of the temples of the gods, that the first dreamy outlines rose before my fancy of the figures here offered to the reader's contemplation. Each visit added strength to the mysterious impulse, to conjure up from their tombs these shadows of a mighty past, and afterward, at home, where the throng of impressions sorted and grouped themselves at leisure, my impulse ripened to fulfillment."

Author : Arthur M. Wright Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532649950

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The Governor and the King by Arthur M. Wright Jr. Pdf

The Fourth Gospel is a political document. Although it has often been interpreted primarily as a "spiritual gospel," it has much to offer readers engaged in the difficult task of negotiating life lived under the dominion of empire, whether in the first or twenty-first century. This book gives careful attention to the political dimensions of the Gospel's Passion Narrative, including the arrest scene (18:1-12), the Roman show trial (18:28--19:16), and the crucifixion and burial of Jesus (19:16-40). It employs James C. Scott's model of hidden transcripts and examines the Fourth Gospel's use of irony as it seeks to understand the political dimensions of the Fourth Gospel and its relationship to the Roman Empire. In this book, Wright argues that the Passion Narrative displays part of a Johannine hidden transcript that resists, contests, and at times mimics elements of Roman imperial power. The Gospel mocks the representatives of Rome, including Pilate, the Roman soldiers, and the Jewish authorities, eroding confidence in the empire and its agents. It also subverts Roman imperial claims of dominance, authority, and power. As such, the Fourth Gospel fosters an alternative worldview and community, one centered on faith in the sovereignty of Jesus and Israel's God.

Author : Dr. Warren Carter
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426724886

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The Roman Empire and the New Testament by Dr. Warren Carter Pdf

An indispensable introduction to Roman society, culture, law, politics, religion, and daily life as they relate to the study of the New Testament.The Roman Empire formed the central context in which the New Testament was written. Anyone who wishes to understand the New Testament texts must become familiar with the political, economic, societal, cultural, and religious aspects of Roman rule. Much of the New Testament deals with enabling its readers to negotiate, in an array of different manners, this pervasive imperial context. This book will help the reader see how social structures and daily practices in the Roman world illumine so much of the content of the New Testament message. For example, to grasp what Paul was saying about food offered to idols one must understand that temples in the Roman world were not “churches,” and that they functioned as political, economic, and gastronomic centers, whose religious dealings were embedded within these other functions.Brief in presentation yet broad in scope, The Roman Empire and the New Testament: An Essential Guide will introduce students to the information and ideas essential to coming to grips with the world in which early Christianity was born.

Author : Zsuzsanna Várhelyi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0511678967

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The Religion of Senators in the Roman Empire by Zsuzsanna Várhelyi Pdf

Examines political and religious power as practised by the elite of the Roman Empire.

Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 1314 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307419767

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged) by Edward Gibbon Pdf

Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgment retains the full scope of the original, but in a breadth comparable to a novel. Casual readers now have access to the full sweep of Gibbon’s narrative, while instructors and students have a volume that can be read in a single term. This unique edition emphasizes elements ignored in all other abridgments—in particular the role of religion in the empire and the rise of Islam.