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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Late Roman Empire"”.
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Marginalized Voices and Nontraditional Pathways in Higher Education in the Late Roman Empire
… pathways of higher education in the late Roman Empire and diversifies our notion of who was part of “the” educated elite in ancient higher education. I focus on upper-class learners who did not have access to the family’s wealth or faced difficulty with pursuing the discussed …
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Blinking Icons: Letters to Saint Augustine
… realities of contemporary America and the late Roman Empire.</p> <p>Central to Augustine’s legacy is the Cartesian mind/body split’, explored from the perspective of a contemporary menopausal woman suffering mysterious pain. Alternate fictional narratives of Augustine’s mother and his …
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An Assessment of the Notitia Dignitatum as a Historical Source for the Late Roman Bureaucracy
… hierarchy, both civil and military, of the later Roman empire. However, due to numerous difficulties associated with the text, few large-scale studies have looked at this document as a whole. The aim of this thesis, therefore, is to provide a comprehensive examination of the Notitia …
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The contribution of warlordism to the disintegration of the western Roman army (c. AD 395-480)
… changing nature of the leadership of the western Roman army in the fifth century through the concept of ‘warlordism’. I carried this out by analyzing those cases of insubordination and military unrest in the officer class of the western Roman army, which can be shown to be linked to the slow …
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The Kingdom of the Gepids during late antiquity power, territory, and identity in a forgotten successor kingdom
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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What’s in a face? Reframing the expressive portraiture of third century Roman emperors
… the 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 …
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Serving the Patris in the Roman Empire: Civic Patriotism in Basil of Caesarea, the Emperor Julian, and Gregory Nazianzus
… study of civic patriotism in the fourth-century Roman Empire in the East. Civic patriotism is often viewed as dead or irrelevant in late Antiquity. This thesis argues that civic patriotic language remained a powerful force, being endorsed, adapted and contested by a variety of elite thinkers, …