Representatives of Roman Rule
Author : Joshua P. Yoder
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Joshua P. Yoder
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : J.A. O. Larsen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520319885
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Author : Joshua Yoder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110366037
Luke-Acts contains a wealth of material that is relevant to politics, and the relationship between Jesus and his followers and the Roman Empire becomes an issue at a number of points. The author's fundamental attitude toward Rome is hard to discern, however. The complexity of Luke's task as both a creative writer and a mediator of received tradition, and perhaps as well the author's own ambivalence, have left conflicting evidence in the narrative. Scholarly treatments of the issue have tended to survey in a relatively short scope a great amount of material with different degrees of relevance to the question and representing different proportions of authorial contribution and traditional material. This book attempts to make a contribution to the discussion by narrowing the focus to Luke's depiction of the Roman provincial governors in his narrative, interpreted in terms of his Greco-Roman literary context. Luke's portraits of Roman governors can be seen to invoke expectations and concerns that were common in the literary context. By these standards Luke's portrait of these Roman authority figures is relatively critical, and demonstrates his preoccupation with Rome's judgment of the Christians more than a desire to commend Roman rule.
Author : Inge Mennen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004203591
This book deals with changing power and status relations between AD 193 and 284, when the Empire came under tremendous pressure, and presents new insights into the diachronic development of imperial administration and socio-political hierarchies between the second and fourth centuries.
Author : Edward J. Watts
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0465093825
Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars -- and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.
Author : Jakob Aall Ottesen Larsen
Publisher :
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Greece
ISBN :
Author : Henrik Mouritsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1107031885
A very readable introduction exploring much-contested issues and debates, and providing an original synthesis of this important topic.
Author : Jakob A. Larsen
Publisher :
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1976
Category :
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Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0674967402
Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian theocracy bore little resemblance to Rome. Here, in a revolutionary model of Byzantine politics and society, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that from the fifth to the twelfth centuries CE the Eastern Roman Empire was essentially a republic, with power exercised on behalf of the people and sometimes by them too. The Byzantine Republic recovers for the historical record a less autocratic, more populist Byzantium whose Greek-speaking citizens considered themselves as fully Roman as their Latin-speaking “ancestors.” Kaldellis shows that the idea of Byzantium as a rigid imperial theocracy is a misleading construct of Western historians since the Enlightenment. With court proclamations often draped in Christian rhetoric, the notion of divine kingship emerged as a way to disguise the inherent vulnerability of each regime. The legitimacy of the emperors was not predicated on an absolute right to the throne but on the popularity of individual emperors, whose grip on power was tenuous despite the stability of the imperial institution itself. Kaldellis examines the overlooked Byzantine concept of the polity, along with the complex relationship of emperors to the law and the ways they bolstered their popular acceptance and avoided challenges. The rebellions that periodically rocked the empire were not aberrations, he shows, but an essential part of the functioning of the republican monarchy.
Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1107032245
This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.