Supplementum Epigraphicum GraecumArmy. Military recruitment from the Eastern Roman provinces.

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Roman Provinces

Property in Land in Roman Provinces

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgy Kantor
Keyword(s):  
Local Property ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Technical Literature ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
Roman Provinces ◽  
Legal Regimes ◽  
The Right ◽  
Property Regimes

Roman concept of dominium has been fundamental in the formation of concepts of ownership in European legal tradition. It is, however, often considered outside the context of Roman imperial rule and of the multiplicity of legal regimes governing property relations in Roman provinces outside Italy. This chapter starts from the classic passage in the Institutes of Gaius, claiming that the right of dominium did not exist in provincial land, where it belonged to the Roman state. Gaius’ statement is often dismissed in modern historical scholarship as a ‘conveyancer’s fantasy’ (A.H.M. Jones). It is argued here that, on the contrary, this passage and other similar statements in Roman juristic literature and technical literature on land-measurement, show an important facet of Roman ideas of ownership as a socially contingent right, dependent on civic status of the owner, status of the territory within the empire, and Roman recognition of local property regimes.

Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces

2005 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Context ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Systematic Treatment ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Roman Provinces ◽  
The Subject

Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systematic treatment of, the subject. Sixteen leading international scholars have sought to address this need by producing this authoritative collection of essays, which ranges over the whole Roman world from Britain to Egypt, from 200 BC to AD 300. The subject is approached through surveys of the broad geographical and chronological structure of the evidence, through chapters which focus on ways of expressing identity, and through regional studies which place the numismatic evidence in local context.

Ianus Augustus, Caput Viae (Mengíbar, Spain): An interprovincial monumental border in Roman Hispania

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Juan Pedro Bellón Ruiz ◽  
Miguel Ángel Lechuga Chica ◽  
María Isabel Moreno Padilla ◽  
Mario Gutiérrez-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Roman Provinces ◽  
Ancient Geography

Abstract Recent research undertaken as part of the Iliturgi Project has located the remains of an Early Imperial building complex linked to the Via Augusta. They include the foundations of an arch and a monumental platform whose size and characteristics allow it to be identified as the Ianus Augustus, a monumental complex near the River Baetis that marked the limit between the Roman provinces of Baetica and Tarraconensis. Its location makes it a reference point for our knowledge of the ancient geography of Hispania and for understanding Roman interprovincial frontiers. Geophysical prospections in its surroundings have also revealed the possible remains of a bridge across the river.

Collective Military Resistance and Popular Power: Views from the Late Republic (90–31 BC)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-255
Author(s):  
Dominic Machado
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Roman Army ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Collective Resistance ◽  
The Status ◽  
Action Taking ◽  
Popular Power

AbstractThis article attempts to read the phenomenon of collective resistance in the Roman army of the Late Republic as political action. Taking my inspiration from post-colonial theories of popular power, I contend that we should not understand acts of collective resistance in military settings as simple events activated by a singular cause, but rather as expressions of individual and collective grievances with the status quo. Indeed, the variant practices of military recruitment in the Late Republic, and the exploitative nature of Rome’s imperial rule put oppressed groups – Italians, provincials, and former slaves – in constant contact with the state apparatus. Thus, military service offered an essential space for political action in the first century BC. These findings help us to better understand how popular power could be realized beyond traditional institutional settings in this period.

DEATH AND THE MODERN EMPIRE: THE 1918–19 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IN INDIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 181-200
Author(s):  
David Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
Influenza Epidemic ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
Private Correspondence ◽  
Political Unrest ◽  
Food Shortages ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Great War

ABSTRACTIn India the 1918–19 influenza pandemic cost at least twelve million lives, more than in any other country; it caused widespread suffering and disrupted the economy and infrastructure. Yet, despite this, and in contrast to the growing literature on recovering the ‘forgotten’ pandemic in other countries, remarkably little was recorded about the epidemic in India at the time or has appeared in the subsequent historiography. An absence of visual evidence is indicative of a more general paucity of contemporary material and first-hand testimony. In seeking to explain this absence, it is argued that, while India was exposed to influenza as a global event and to the effects of its involvement in the Great War, the influenza episode needs to be more fully understood in terms of local conditions. The impact of the disease was overshadowed by the prior encounter with bubonic plague, by military recruitment and the war, and by food shortages and price rises that pushed India to the brink of famine. Subsumed within a dominant narrative of political unrest and economic discontent, the epidemic found scant expression in official documentation, public debate and/or even private correspondence.

The ecclesiastical reorganisation of space and authority in late antique gaul: Zosimus' letter Multa contra (JK 334 = J3 740)

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Geoffrey D. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conflict ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Hierarchical Relationship ◽  
Roman Provinces ◽  
Provincial Capital ◽  
New City ◽  
Episcopal Authority

On 29 September 417 'Zosimus', bishop of Rome, wrote 'Epistula' 5 ('Multa contra' - JK 334 = J3 740) to the bishops of the Gallic provinces of Viennensis and Narbonensis Secunda. It followed a synod that had been held in Rome on 22 September to consider alleged violations by Proculus of Marseille of the hierarchical relationship between the churches of southern Gaul and the authority of metropolitan bishops over the other churches of their provinces. Episcopal authority was geographically defined and circumscribed by Roman provincial boundaries, with the bishop of a provincial capital having some authority over the other bishops of the province. What was to happen, though, when those boundaries changed or a new city within a province became capital? In a series of four letters (the others being 'Epistulae' 4 ['Cum aduersus' - JK 331 = J3 737], 6 ['Mirati admodum' - JK 332 = J3 738], and 7 [Quid de 'Proculi' - JK 333 = J3 739) written immediately after the synod, of which this letter is the last, Zosimus supported the claims of Patroclus, bishop of Arles, to be not only the metropolitan of Viennensis but, surprisingly, the sole metropolitan over several Roman provinces. This paper examines how authority within the late antique church was dependent upon spatial organisational arrangements and how temporal arguments could be advanced when such spatial arrangements did not suit the personal plans of some ambitious bishops. It further considers the religious conflict that arose over disputed areas of authority and the mechanism by which attempts were made at its resolution and how Zosimus' action contributed ultimately to a developing concept of papal primacy.

scholarly journals Recherches sur la résurgence du vocabulaire sémitique dans le langage religieux des provinces romaines d'Afrique : le cas du terme moctor

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 171-176
Author(s):  
Lotfi Naddari ◽  
Mohamed Riadh Hamrouni
Keyword(s):  
Religious Language ◽  
African Cities ◽  
Roman Provinces

AbstractAmong the members of a religious college revealed by a monumental Latin inscription recently discovered in the medina of Sousse (Hadrumetum, Proconsular Africa), there is a member in charge of moctor. This is in fact an unprecedented function among the clergy of the temples of the Roman-African cities. It seems to have been formed from the Semitic consonantal skeleton KTR or QTR, which we find in KTRT (incense) and QTRT (perfume) words. Thus, it is quite possible that moctor is a nominal Semitic form of the root KTR / QTR prefixed with M to designate in the Phoenicio-Punic etymology the ‘offering to incense’. This evidence of a function of Semitic origin in a Latin inscription is not unusual when one understands the privileged place occupied by incense in rituals of Punic and Oriental cults. Similarly, the presence of this function is not surprising in a city with a significant Phoenician-Punic foundation and heritage. If this comparison is plausible, we will have here additional evidence of the resurgence of the religious vocabulary of Semitic origin among the religious language of the Roman provinces of Africa.

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