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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"city of rome"”.
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From hostage to historian: Josephus, the emperors, and the city of Rome
The voluminous works of the Judaean historian Flavius Josephus have been and continue to be of tremendous importance for our understanding of the worlds in which he lived. For centuries his works have been thoroughly investigated by scholars in diverse fields. Until more recently, however, the …
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'A City of Brick': Visual Rhetoric in the Roman Principate
The first of these case studies, found in Chapter Two, examines the most complete visual representation of this myth in state art on the Ara Pacts Augustae, Altar of Augustan Peace, and how traditional rhetorical techniques are at work on the altar. Chapter Three focuses on the political myth as …
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The forum and the city: rethinking centrality in Rome and Pompeii (3rd century B.C. - 2nd century A.D.)
This thesis details the development of fora in Rome and Pompeii in order that our understanding of these spaces as 'centres' accounts for their changing relationship with the city, between the third century B.C. and the second century A.D. It is a diachronic study of spatial practice and the …
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The Dissemination and Reception of the Ordines Romani in the Carolingian Church, c.750-900
The ordines romani are products of a ninth-century attempt to correct liturgy across Europe. Hitherto, scholarship has almost exclusively focused on them as sources for the practices of the city of Rome, narrowly defined, disregarding how they were received creatively and reinterpreted in a set of …
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While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination
Images of urban conflagration had a powerful hold on the ancient Roman literary imagination. This phenomenon represents a unique confluence between literary tradition and urban reality: Greco-Roman literature offers a wide array of poetic, philosophical and historiographic reflections of cities …
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Language and the politics of Roman identity
… involved in being Roman. It focuses on evidence of multilingualism: Roman identity was defined through opposition and interaction, and it is at points of contact that these debates are cast into relief. It looks predominantly at evidence of Greek-Latin bilingualism, but also considers evidence of …
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Musical Notation and Liturgical Books in Late Carolingian Nonantola
The musical notation of the northern Italian Benedictine abbey of St Sylvester in Nonantola has hitherto been neglected by most scholarship on early music scripts, mainly because of the paucity of surviving music manuscripts and their limited geographical diffusion. A new study was needed in order …
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Rome, before the State: Architecture and Persuasion in the Early Modern City
Rome, before the State is a historical exploration of the role architecture has played in constructing affective relations of power. It is an attempt to trace the transformation of the city of Rome against the background of shifting state–church relations between the mid-fifteenth and …
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Curating history: Roman approaches to the material past, c. 100 BC - AD 200
… BC to the second century AD. Using a combination of texts, objects, and images, I explore themes relevant to the modern fields of heritage studies and museology and push their histories back to the ancient world. After examining how one might define what we mean by ‘the past’ and its relationship …