Prosopographical Studies On The Court Elite In The Roman Empire 4th Century A D

Author : Szymon Olszaniec
Publisher : Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9788323131434

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Prosopographical studies on the court elite in the Roman Empire (4th century A. D.) by Szymon Olszaniec Pdf

The work presented concludes author’s long interest in the palace elite of the Roman Empire in the 4th century A.D. He tries to fill the lack of modern monograph dedicated to the group of four heads of palace administration: quaestor (QSP), master of office’s (Mag. Off.), count of the sacred largesse (CSL) and count of the privy purse (CRP), who formed the emperor’s council which met in the consistory of the imperial palace, thus often being referred to ascomites consistoriani. The work uses the alphabetical order of biograms. They contain information about: names, social and regional background, career, religion, family and connections, education and professional qualifications, and collects literature concerning them. Translated by: Jacek Wełniak and Małgorzata Stachowska-Wełniak

Author : Hannah-Lena Hagemann,Stefan Heidemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110666564

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Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire by Hannah-Lena Hagemann,Stefan Heidemann Pdf

Die Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients erscheinen als Supplement der Zeitschrift Der Islam, gegründet 1910 von Carl Heinrich Becker, einem der Väter der modernen Islamwissenschaft. Ganz im Sinne Beckers ist das Ziel der Studien die Erforschung der vergangenen Gesellschaften des Vorderen Orients, ihrer Glaubenssysteme und der zugrundeliegenden sozialen und ökonomischen Verhältnisse, von der Iberischen Halbinsel bis nach Zentralasien, von den ukrainischen Steppen zum Hochland des Jemen. Über die grundlegende philologische Arbeit an der literarischen Überlieferung hinaus nutzen die Studien die archivalischen, sowie materiellen und archäologischen Überlieferungen als Quelle für die gesamte Bandbreite der historisch arbeitenden Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.

Author : Caillan Davenport,Meaghan McEvoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192688811

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The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity by Caillan Davenport,Meaghan McEvoy Pdf

The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity examines the Roman imperial court as a social and political institution in both the Principate and Late Antiquity. By analysing these two periods, which are usually treated separately in studies of the Roman court, it considers continuities, changes, and connections in the six hundred years between the reigns of Augustus and Justinian. Thirteen case studies are presented. Some take a thematic approach, analysing specific aspects such as the appointment of jurists, the role of guard units, or stories told about the court, over several centuries. Others concentrate on specific periods, individuals, or office holders, like the role of women and generals in the fifth century AD, while paying attention to their wider historical significance. The volume concludes with a chapter placing the evolution of the Roman imperial court in comparative perspective using insights from scholarship on other Eurasian monarchical courts. It shows that the long-term transformation of the Roman imperial court did not follow a straightforward and linear course, but came about as the result of negotiation, experimentation, and adaptation.

Author : Jan Willem Drijvers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780197600702

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The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian (363-364) by Jan Willem Drijvers Pdf

"This book is the first modern scholarly monograph on the emperor Jovian (363-364). It offers a new assessment of his reign and argues that Jovian's reign was of more importance than assumed by most (ancient and modern) historians. This study argues that Jovian restored the Roman empire after the failed reign of Julian by returning to the policies of Constantius II and Constantine the Great. Jovian's general strategies were directed to get the Roman empire on its feet again militarily, administratively and religiously after the failed reign of his predecessor Julian (361-363) as well as to establish more peaceful relations with the Sasanid empire. For an emperor who ruled only eight months Jovian had an unexpected and surprising afterlife. The rarely studied and largely unknown Syriac Julian Romance offers a surprising and different perspective on person and reign of Jovian. In the Romance Jovian is presented as the ideal Christian emperor and a new Constantine. But the Romance is also an important source for Roman-Persian relations and the positioning of Syriac Christianity in the late antique world of Christendom"--

Author : Johannes Hahn,Volker Menze
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520972957

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The Wandering Holy Man by Johannes Hahn,Volker Menze Pdf

Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism and violent anti-Jewish campaigns across the Holy Land. Although Barsauma was a powerful and revered figure in the Eastern church, modern scholarship has widely dismissed him as a thug of peripheral interest. Until now, only the most salacious bits of the Life of Barsauma—a fascinating collection of miracles that Barsauma undertook across the Near East—had been translated. This pioneering study includes the first full translation of the Life and a series of studies by scholars employing a range of methods to illuminate the text from different angles and contexts. This is the authoritative source on this influential figure in the history of the church and his life, travels, and relations with other religious groups.

Author : Muriel Moser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481014

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Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II by Muriel Moser Pdf

Explores the political importance of senators for the maintenance of imperial rule under Constantine I and his son Constantius II.

Author : H. C. Teitler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190626501

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The Last Pagan Emperor by H. C. Teitler Pdf

The Roman emperor Julian (361-363) was raised as a Christian, but soon after apostatized, and, during his short reign, attempted to revive paganism. This provoked the anger of the Christians, who raised accusations against him as a persecutor. In The Last Pagan Emperor, these claims are carefully investigated.

Author : Chris de Wet,Wendy Mayer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004390041

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Revisioning John Chrysostom by Chris de Wet,Wendy Mayer Pdf

In Revisioning John Chrysostom, Chris de Wet and Wendy Mayer harness a new wave of scholarship on the life and works of John Chrysostom (c. 350-407 CE), which applies new theoretical lenses and reconsiders his debt to classical paideia.

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161544501

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Maidens, Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity by Jan N. Bremmer Pdf

In this work, Jan N. Bremmer aims to bring together the worlds of early Christianity and those of ancient history and classical literature - worlds that still all too rarely interlock. Contextualising the life and literature of the early Christians in their Greco-Roman environment, he focusses on four areas. A first section looks at more general aspects of early Christianity: the name of the Christians, their religious and social capital, prophecy and the place of widows and upper-class women in the Christian movement. Second, the chronology and place of composition of the early apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and Pseudo-Clementines are newly determined by paying close attention to their doctrinal contents, but also, innovatively, to their onomastics and social vocabulary. The author also analyses the frequent use of magic in the Acts and explains the prominence of women by comparing the Acts to the Greek novel. Third, an investigation into the theme of the tours of hell suggests a new chronological order, shows that the Christian tours were indebted to both Greek and Jewish models, and illustrates that in the course of time the genre dropped a large part of its Jewish heritage. The fourth and final section concentrates on the most famous and intriguing report of an ancient martyrdom: the Passion of Perpetua. It pays special attention to the motivation and visions of Perpetua, which are analyzed not by taking recourse to modern theories such as psychoanalysis, but by looking to the world in which Perpetua lived, both Christian and pagan. It is only by seeing the early Christians in their ancient world that we might begin to understand them and their emerging communities. (Publisher's description).

Author : Jitse H. F. Dijkstra,Christian R. Raschle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108494908

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Religious Violence in the Ancient World by Jitse H. F. Dijkstra,Christian R. Raschle Pdf

A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.

Author : Rada Varga,Viorica Rusu-Bolindeț
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317086147

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Official Power and Local Elites in the Roman Provinces by Rada Varga,Viorica Rusu-Bolindeț Pdf

Presenting a new and revealing overview of the ruling classes of the Roman Empire, this volume explores aspects of the relations between the official state structures of Rome and local provincial elites. The central objective of the volume is to present as complex a picture as possible of the provincial leaderships and their many and varied responses to the official state structures. The perspectives from which issues are approached by the contributors are as multiple as the realities of the Roman world: from historical and epigraphic studies to research of philological and linguistic interpretations, and from architectural analyses to direct interpretations of the material culture. While some local potentates took pride in their relationship with Rome and their use of Latin, exhibiting their allegiances publicly as well as privately, others preferred to keep this display solely for public manifestation. These complex and complementary pieces of research provide an in-depth image of the power mechanisms within the Roman state. The chronological span of the volume is from Rome’s Republican conquest of Greece to the changing world of the fourth and fifth centuries AD, when a new ecclesiastical elite began to emerge.

Author : Strootman Rolf Strootman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
ISBN : 9780748691289

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Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires by Strootman Rolf Strootman Pdf

Rolf Strootman brings together various aspects of court culture in the Macedonian empires of the post-Achaemenid Near East. During the Hellenistic Period (c. 330-30 BCE), Alexander the Great and his successors reshaped their Persian and Greco-Macedonian legacies to create a new kind of rulership that was neither 'western' nor 'eastern' and would profoundly influence the later development of court culture and monarchy in both the Roman West and Iranian East.Drawing on the socio-political models of Norbert Elias and Charles Tilly, After the Achaemenids shows how the Hellenistic dynastic courts were instrumental in the integration of local elites in the empires, and the (re)distribution of power, wealth, and status. It analyses the competition among courtiers for royal favour and the, not always successful, attempts of the Hellenistic rulers to use these struggles to their own advantage.It demonstrates the interrelationships of the three competing 'Hellenistic' empires of the Seleukids, Antigonids and Ptolemies, casts new light on the phenomenon of Hellenistic Kingship by approaching it from the angle of the court and covers topics such as palace architecture, royal women, court ceremonial, and coronation ritual.

Author : A. J. S. Spawforth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139505024

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Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution by A. J. S. Spawforth Pdf

This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy. Against a background of Roman debates about Greek culture and Roman decadence, Augustus promoted the ideal of a Roman debt to a 'classical' Greece rooted in Europe and morally opposed to a stereotyped Asia. In Greece the regime signalled its admiration for Athens, Sparta, Olympia and Plataea as symbols of these past Greek glories. Cued by the Augustan monarchy, provincial Greek notables expressed their Roman orientation by competitive cultural work (revival of ritual; restoration of buildings) aimed at further emphasising Greece's 'classical' legacy. Reprised by Hadrian, the Augustan construction of 'classical' Greece helped to promote the archaism typifying Greek culture under the principate.

Author : Christopher Bendle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 3515136142

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The Office of 'Magister Militum' in the 4th Century CE by Christopher Bendle Pdf

This monograph presents a novel investigation of the magistri militum, the highest-ranking officers within the late Roman army. It posits that between 340 and 395 CE, specific magistri seized opportune moments, notably during the political voids following emperors' deaths, to reshape the character of their office and expand its pivotal role in the military-political sphere. This transformation played a decisive role in the eventual dissolution of the Western Roman Empire. Furthermore, the study employs the prosopographical method to reevaluate previous scholarship regarding the proportion of barbarian and Roman generals. Notably, the research posits that the balance between Roman and non-Roman officers was far more equitably distributed than hitherto conjectured. Additionally, prosopography is used to reconstruct the fourth-century cursus honorum. Finally, this work utilizes the analytical framework of social network analysis, predicated upon the application of mathematical equations and formulae to elucidate the intricate dynamics of positive and negative relationships. The findings of this study furnish valuable insights and prospects for further research.

Author : John Robert Martindale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107119316

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The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire by John Robert Martindale Pdf