Christianity, the Capitoline Hill, and the End of Antiquity

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190492274.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jason Moralee

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Sixth Century ◽

Social Worlds ◽

Early Medieval ◽

Small Church ◽

The Social ◽

Christian Worship ◽

The Hill

Chapter 3 continues to explore the social worlds of the Capitoline Hill by focusing on the Christian cultures of the streets around the Capitoline Hill and the ways in which this iconic place was valued locally from the last half of the sixth century to the middle of the eighth. By the middle of the sixth century, legends began to circulate in Byzantium that made the Capitoline Hill the location of oracles presaging the birth of the savior and the apocalypse. As in other locales in Rome, it was at this time that a small church was established on the Capitoline Hill in an urban environment in which public spaces were beginning to be used for Christian worship. Even as the hill was becoming a distinctly early medieval neighborhood, this location, with its church at its heart, was always associated with memories of the Roman Empire’s long-lost glory.

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Living and Working on the Capitoline Hill

10.1093/oso/9780190492274.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jason Moralee

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Sixth Century ◽

Third Century ◽

Late Antique ◽

The Third ◽

Literary Sources ◽

The Social ◽

High Degree ◽

The Hill

Chapter 2 surveys the evidence for the maintenance of the Capitoline Hill’s temples, statues, festivals, and administrative uses into the sixth century. While imperial rites celebrated at the Capitol faded in significance by the end of the third century, the hill was at the heart of the social and administrative worlds of late antique Rome. The chapter thus turns to the ways in which the hill was embedded in multiple late Roman neighborhoods and used for administrative purposes. Even as Rome’s urban environment was undergoing serious transformations in the use of public spaces, archaeology, epigraphy, and literary sources demonstrate that the Capitoline Hill was surrounded by neighborhoods displaying a high degree of sociability and commerce throughout this period.

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Public spaces as a factor of the quality of the urban environment (on the example of the city of Irkutsk)

10.24108/preprints-3112014 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Нина Полякова

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Social Inclusion ◽

Urban Society ◽

Public Spaces ◽

City Management ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

Historical Heritage ◽

The City

The article describes the relevance of the study of public spaces as an important element of the quality of the urban environment. Successfully functioning public spaces are called upon to solve a number of urban problems, including the social isolation of citizens caused by urbanization processes. The characteristic of public spaces of a particular city is based on an assessment of a set of attributes and related criteria developed by placemaking specialists. It is proved that this complex should reflect not only the general requirements for public spaces, but also the features of the city: the diversity of the socio-ethnic structure of the population, cultural and historical heritage, and the specificity of the existing urban environment. The characteristics of the four most visited public spaces of the provincial Siberian city of Irkutsk are fulfilled: the Kirov square; historical and memorial complex "Jerusalem Mountain "; Municipal Park "Yunost Island"; shopping and entertainment complex "130th quarter". The results showed that the public spaces of the city perform a number of functions with varying degrees of success: best recreational and entertaining, partially creative and the function of storing the “collective memory” of the city. At the same time, the city does not have public spaces that fully meet the objectives of the development of urban society; this applies to both historical and newly created. Their main drawback is the inconsistency with the modern challenge for Irkutsk, namely, the solution to the problem of social inclusion of new citizens. Some measures have been proposed for City management to purposefully strengthen the elements of public spaces that implement the function of involving residents, especially migrants, in the public life of the city.

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THE HIMYARITE KINGDOM ON THE EVE OF AND AFTER THE ETHIOPIAN DOMINANCE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY A.D. IN THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. ARETHAS AND HIS COMPANIONS AND IN THE ACTS OF ST. GREGENTIUS

Journal for Semitics ◽

10.25159/1013-8471/3475 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 678-700

Author(s):

V Christides

Keyword(s):

Social Structure ◽

Red Sea ◽

Present Author ◽

Sixth Century ◽

South Arabia ◽

The Social ◽

Preliminary Study

Based on two important hagiographical works written in Greek, the Martyrdom of St. Arethas and his companions and the Acts of St. Gregentius, the aim of this paper is to continue my preliminary study of the countries around the Red Sea in pre-Islamic times, especially in the sixth century A.D. The most valuable information in the Martyrdom concerns the hazardous voyage of the Ethiopian army from the main port of Adulis across the Red Sea to South Arabia (ca 525 A.D.). This work illuminates aspects of that expedition which do not appear in such detail in any other source. In addition, it describes the ports of the Red Sea in the sixth century, i.e., Klysma, Bereniki, Adulis, etc., corroborating the finds of archaeology and epigraphy. Concerning the controversial Acts of St. Gregentius, the present author has tried to discuss only some vital information reflecting the social structure of South Arabia during its Ethiopian occupation until the Persian conquest of it (ca 525 A.D. â€“ ca 570 A.D.), and attempted to trace the origin of just one law (the treatment of animals) among those supposedly imposed on the Himyarites by the so-called archbishop Gregentius.

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Инфраструктурные перегрузки как дисбаланс городской среды// Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences 5(14), 2019/ RELF Group & OEAPS Inc.(Open European Academy of Public Sciences); Chief Editor Vitaly Yakovlev- Berlin, Germany. 26.09.2019: OEAPS Inc., 2019. - PP. 37-43.

10.31219/osf.io/t3ub2 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Татьяна Андреевна Водчиц

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Chief Editor ◽

Natural Sciences ◽

Social Infrastructure ◽

European Academy ◽

The Social ◽

Global Problems ◽

The City

В предложенной статье поднята на рассмотрение общераспространённая проблематика напряженного состояния социальной инфраструктуры города на примере Москвы. Также берется к рассмотрению тот факт, что растущая инфраструктура – одна из глобальных проблем мегаполиса. Выявлены основные причины формирования дисбаланса городской среды. Предложен ряд способов возможного решения данной задачи.In the proposed article, the widespread problems of the tense state of the social infrastructure of the city are raised for consideration. Also taken into consideration is the fact that the growing infrastructure is one of the global problems of the metropolis. The main causes of the imbalance of the urban environment are revealed. A number of possible solutions to this problem are proposed.

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Jamie Kreiner, The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. xii, 329.

Mediaevistik ◽

10.3726/med012018_370 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 370-372

Author(s):

Bernard S. Bachrach

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Accurate Information ◽

Early Medieval ◽

Narrative Texts ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Plain Text ◽

The Social

In 1988 Walter Goffart demonstrated conclusively that the authors of early medieval narrative texts had to be taken seriously as people of intellectual substance capable of sustaining sophisticated arguments. Their works, Goffart warns us, were not to be treated, as previously had been the case, as mere naive receptecals of fact and fantasy to be plundered by historians in search of accurate information. In the wake of Goffart’s work, it has become a cliché that text must be treated as text before it is treated as evidence if, in fact, it ever is to be used for the latter purpose. In the generation that has passed since Goffart’s paradigm has taken hold it is rare to find anyone who will read early medieval narrative works, such as those of Gregory of Tours (d. 594), as plain text.

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‘Getting back to normality seems as big of a step as going into lockdown’: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with early to middle stage dementia

Age and Ageing ◽

10.1093/ageing/afab012 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Catherine V Talbot ◽

Pam Briggs

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

Cognitive Stimulation ◽

Social Worlds ◽

Middle Stage ◽

People With Dementia ◽

The Social ◽

Function Loss ◽

The Government ◽

Person With Dementia ◽

The Impact

Abstract People with dementia can experience shrinkage of their social worlds, leading to a loss of independence, control and reduced well-being. We used ‘the shrinking world’ theory to examine how the COVID 19 pandemic has impacted the lives of people with early to middle stage dementia and what longer-term impacts may result. Interviews were conducted with 19 people with dementia and a thematic analysis generated five themes: the forgotten person with dementia, confusion over government guidance, deterioration of cognitive function, loss of meaning and social isolation, safety of the lockdown bubble. The findings suggest that the pandemic has accelerated the ‘shrinking world’ effect and created tension in how people with dementia perceive the outside world. Participants felt safe and secure in lockdown but also missed the social interaction, cognitive stimulation and meaningful activities that took place outdoors. As time in lockdown continued, these individuals experienced a loss of confidence and were anxious about their ability to re-engage in the everyday practises that allow them to participate in society. We recommend ways in which the government, communities and organisations might counteract some of the harms posed by this shrinking world.

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Understanding policing demand and deployment through the lens of the city and with the application of big data

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098020981007 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 004209802098100

Author(s):

Mark Ellison ◽

Jon Bannister ◽

Won Do Lee ◽

Muhammad Salman Haleem

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Urban Environment ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Multilevel Model ◽

Open Data ◽

Front Line ◽

Criminological Research ◽

The Social ◽

Generalised Method Of Moments ◽

The City

The effective, efficient and equitable policing of urban areas rests on an appreciation of the qualities and scale of, as well as the factors shaping, demand. It also requires an appreciation of the factors shaping the resources deployed in their address. To this end, this article probes the extent to which policing demand (crime, anti-social behaviour, public safety and welfare) and deployment (front-line resource) are similarly conditioned by the social and physical urban environment, and by incident complexity. The prospect of exploring policing demand, deployment and their interplay is opened through the utilisation of big data and artificial intelligence and their integration with administrative and open data sources in a generalised method of moments (GMM) multilevel model. The research finds that policing demand and deployment hold varying and time-sensitive association with features of the urban environment. Moreover, we find that the complexities embedded in policing demands serve to shape both the cumulative and marginal resources expended in their address. Beyond their substantive policy relevance, these findings serve to open new avenues for urban criminological research centred on the consideration of the interplay between policing demand and deployment.

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Power, Agency, Relationality and Welfare Practice

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279415000318 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 687-705 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

RACHAEL DOBSON

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Practice Research ◽

Social Worlds ◽

Social Phenomena ◽

Working Through ◽

Starting Point ◽

The Social ◽

The Individual ◽

The Relationship

AbstractThis article argues that constructions of social phenomena in social policy and welfare scholarship think about the subjects and objects of welfare practice in essentialising ways, with negativistic effects for practitioners working in ‘regulatory’ contexts such as housing and homelessness practice. It builds into debates about power, agency, social policy and welfare by bringing psychosocial and feminist theorisations of relationality to practice research. It claims that relational approaches provide a starting point for the analysis of empirical practice data, by working through the relationship between the individual and the social via an ontological unpicking and revisioning of practitioners' social worlds.

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