The Insignia of the Notitia Dignitatum
Author : Pamela C. Berger
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Design
ISBN :
Author : Pamela C. Berger
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Design
ISBN :
Author : Nigel Pollard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472111558
A study of interaction between the Roman army and the civilian population in Syria and Mesopotamia in the first five centuries A.D.
Author : Sabine MacCormack
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691126746
Universals and particulars : themes and persons -- Writing and the pursuit of origins -- Conquest, civil war, and political life -- The emergence of patria : cities and the law -- Works of nature and works of free will -- "The discourse of my life" : what language can do -- The Incas, Rome, and Peru -- Epilogue: Ancient texts : prophecies and predictions, causes and judgments.
Author : Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9004166637
There was no sharp break between classical and medieval map making. Contributions by thirteen scholars offer fresh insight that demonstrates continuity and adaptation over the long term. This work reflects current thinking in the history of cartography and opens new directions for the future.
Author : Elena N. Boeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107197279
Biography of the medieval Mediterranean's most cross-culturally significant sculptural monument, the tallest in the pre-modern world.
Author : Daniëlle Slootjes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 24,51 MB
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9047409345
This book presents new insights into the dynamics of the relationship between governors and provincial subjects in the Later Roman Empire, with a focus on the provincial perspective. Based on literary, legal, epigraphic and artistic materials the author deals with questions such as how provincials communicated their needs to governors, how they expressed both their favorable and critical opinions of governors’ behavior, and how they rewarded ‘good’ governors. Provincial expectations, a continuous dialogue, interdependence, reciprocity, and ceremonial routine play key roles in this study that not only leads to a better understanding of Late Roman provincial administration, but also of the successful functioning of an empire as large as that of Rome.
Author : Robert Flierman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1350019461
This study is the first up-to-date comprehensive analysis of Continental Saxon identity in antiquity and the early middle ages. Building on recent scholarship on barbarian ethnicity, this study emphasises not just the constructed and open-ended nature of Saxon identity, but also the crucial role played by texts as instruments and resources of identity-formation. This book traces this process of identity-formation over the course of eight centuries, from its earliest beginnings in Roman ethnography to its reinvention in the monasteries and bishoprics of ninth-century Saxony. Though the Saxons were mentioned as early as AD 150, they left no written evidence of their own before c. 840. Thus, for the first seven centuries, we can only look at the Saxons through the eyes of their Roman enemies, Merovingian neighbours and Carolingian conquerors. Such external perspectives do not yield objective descriptions of a people, but rather reflect an ongoing discourse on Saxon identity, in which outside authors described who they imagined, wanted or feared the Saxons to be: dangerous pirates, noble savages, bestial pagans or faithful subjects. Significantly, these outside views deeply influenced how ninth-century Saxons eventually came to think about themselves, using Roman and Frankish texts to reinvent the Saxons as a noble and Christian people.
Author : John F. Shean
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9004187332
This new study argues that the religious attitude of the Roman army was a crucial factor in the Christianization of the Roman world. Specifically, by the end of the third century, there was a significant Christian presence within the army which was ready to act in the interests of the faith. Conditions at this time were thus ripe for the coming to power of a Christian emperor: when Constantine converted to Christianity he could rely upon the enthusiastic support of his Christian soldiers. Constantine strengthened his Christian base by initiating policies which accelerated the Christianization of the army. The continuation of these policies by Christian Roman emperors eventually allowed them to use the military as a vehicle for the suppression of paganism and ‘heretical’ Christian sects.
Author : Mark Hebblewhite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1317034295
With The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235–395 Mark Hebblewhite offers the first study solely dedicated to examining the nature of the relationship between the emperor and his army in the politically and militarily volatile later Roman Empire. Bringing together a wide range of available literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence he demonstrates that emperors of the period considered the army to be the key institution they had to mollify in order to retain power and consequently employed a range of strategies to keep the troops loyal to their cause. Key to these efforts were imperial attempts to project the emperor as a worthy general (imperator) and a generous provider of military pay and benefits. Also important were the honorific and symbolic gestures each emperor made to the army in order to convince them that they and the empire could only prosper under his rule.
Author : Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN :