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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Roman emperors"”.
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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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"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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A community of preachers: The north Italian episcopacy, 397-451
… is the emphasis on the fragmentation of the Roman world along 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 …
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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 Responses of the Roman Imperial Government to Natural Disasters 29 BCE-180 CE
… both the 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 …
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From hostage to historian: Josephus, the emperors, and the city of Rome
… fields. Until more recently, however, the Roman context in which Josephus lived as he wrote was rarely explored at length, despite the fact that it is indispensable for our knowledge and understanding of the man and the historian. Recent scholarship has, however, taken up the exploration of …
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Historical Distance and Difference in the Twelfth-Century Middle High German Kaiserchronik
… of annals the conceptual continuity of the Roman Empire as the object of narration becomes all the more clearer. The episodes are used as pegs for a wide selection of historical narratives, which are decontextualised and presented unmoored from its traditional semantic environment. Only its …
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Politics and the Past in the Age of Nerva and Trajan: The Making and Unmaking of Memories of Domitian, 96-117 CE.
… of the nature of imperial succession and the Roman principate more generally. Chapter 1 shows that the well-studied sanctions the senate passed against Domitian were just a first step of a complex process in which his memory was reshaped, through the production of new commemorative media, …
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Standing by the standards: military rank and social status in the Roman west from Augustus to Diocletian
… military and civil society in the time of the Roman Principate. It is about making sense of the tensions experienced by the soldiers and veterans of the Roman army between their lives as milites and as cives. This thesis weaves soldiers and veterans back into the wider social fabric of the …