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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Emperors"”.
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From hostage to historian: Josephus, the emperors, and the city of Rome
… between Josephus and each of the Flavian emperors-Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian-individually, this study seeks to explore the nature of these relationships more comprehensively than has been done in the past. This aim of comprehensiveness is achieved in part by beginning not with …
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The Relations of Ambrose and the Emperors as Evidenced in his Letters
There are three possible theories on the relations between Church and State. Of course, there are modified versions, or combinations of these theories, but the basic theories are these three. One theory advances the State as the end of man’s activity and the ruler over the Church. The second, less …
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The huge delusion: a study of the young emperors and Roman historians
… deal with these issues, I have chosen six young emperors (Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Commodus, Caracalla, and Elagabalus) and attempted to consider the association of youth, authority, and madness by a thorough examination of ideology and events. To that end, I have treated alternative …
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Sex in Suetonius: Sexual Material as a Characterisation Device for Tyrannical Emperors
… While Suetonius’ detailed descriptions of the emperors’ sex lives have long entertained readers, scholars usually dismiss them as scarcely credible gossip. However, these passages do warrant serious study. The thesis approaches Suetonius’ Caesares from a literary standpoint and argues that …
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What’s in a face? Reframing the expressive portraiture of third century Roman emperors
… expressive portraiture of third-century Roman emperors through the lens of memory—both cultural and cognitive. Traditionally interpreted as visualizations of military severity, personal cruelty, or psychological instability, these emotive images—marked by furrowed brows, tensed musculature, and …
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State aristocracy : resident senators and absent emperors in Late-Antique Rome, c. 320-400
… Firstly, Rome ceased to be the residence of emperors. From the last visit of the emperor Constantine in 326 until the end of the century, there were only two imperial visits to Rome. Secondly, a series of ceremonial, institutional and fiscal recalibrations magnified the visibility and …
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Proměna císařského portrétu ve 3. a 4. století
This thesis deals with portraiture of roman emperors on their statues and coins during the 3rd and 4th century. It begins with accession of military emperors and ends by Constantinian dynasty. The thesis tries to describe the changes in roman imperial portrait and determine its clearer roadmap. …
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The criminal prosecution of heresy in the Theodosian code
… currently offered by legal historians for the emperors' prosecution of sectarianism, which states that religious dissidence represented a manifestation of social and political discontent in an era when such discontent could not be expressed through more appropriate avenues, and that the …
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The Responses of the Roman Imperial Government to Natural Disasters 29 BCE-180 CE
… process of disaster aid delineating how Roman emperors were petitioned for assistance, the forms disaster relief took, and the political motives individual emperors had for dispensing disaster aid. Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the topic. Chapter 2 outlines the scope of the study …
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Invisible Actors: The Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia (1855--1913)
… and the Tulama of Shawa during the reigns of Emperors Tewodros II (r.1855-68), Yohannes IV (1872-1888) and Menilek II (1889-1913). The Oromo entered the political arena in the highlands of Ethiopia in the aftermath of Ahmed Gran's 16th century invasion, and this work aims to trace not only …
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"The Nuremberg Chronicle and Its Readers: The Reception of Hartmann Schedel's ""Liber Cronicarum"""
… material, and its depiction of the Holy Roman emperors. While reading is an individual and ephemeral act, marginalia allow the recovery of certain aspects of early modern reading and an assessment of the reception of the Liber cronicarum.
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The role and character of the praetorian guard and the praetorian prefecture until the accession of Vespasian
… the Praetorians undertook at the behest of their emperors but also an examination into the motivations of the guardsmen themselves. Moreover, any study of the Praetorian Guard would be less than complete without an account of the development of the Praetorian prefecture. (Now unrestricted)
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The Second Roman Revolution: A Study in Religious Policy from 250-325 C.E.
… enemies. Because of this downturn, several emperors attempted to consolidate more control over several areas, including economics, the military, bureaucracy, and religion. While these episodes in political and social change are regarded among scholars a watershed moment in history, most …
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World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 700-900
… of Hagia Sophia and the Anemodoulion, erected by emperors in Constantinople. Its apparent lack of progeny is related to a jealous “economy of knowledge” that developed from social antagonisms between centralizing emperors and elites determined to maintain independent sources of power.</p> …
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A community of preachers: The north Italian episcopacy, 397-451
… regional lines as the authority of the Roman emperors was weakened, particularly in the west. The second is the emergence of the bishop as the key cultural and political figure in the cities of the later empire. The fact that the western Roman emperors spent most of their time in northern …
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From Empire to Nation: The Politics of Language in Manchuria (1890-1911)
… sources, this thesis argues that the Qing emperors devised a multilingual regime to recreate the imperial polyglot reality and to rule a purposefully diverse but unifying empire. From the seventeenth century, the Qing emperors maintained the special Manchu-Mongol relations by adopting …
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Rethinking the Third Century CE: Contemporary Historiography and Political Narrative
… at the expense of the Senate, after the Severan emperors made it clear that their hold on power rested on military support. The soldiers would grow bolder in asserting their position, eventually coming to overthrow emperors at will. I present a broad reassessment of the evidence for a historical …
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Function and Architecture of the Principal Residences of the Tetrarchy: An Assessment of Their Capitalness
… of the tetrarchy, literally “the rule of four emperors”, was initiated by Emperor Diocletian in 294 A.D. and lasted till 305 A.D. In this period, Diocletian and Galerius ruled the east of the empire, and Maximian and Constantius Chlorus the west. The third century was a time when the …
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