Cora Dietl u. Titus Knäpper (Hgg.): Rules and Violence – Regeln und Gewalt. On the Cultural History of Collective Violence from Late Antiquity to the Confessional Age – Zur Kulturgeschichte der kollektiven Gewalt von der Spätantike bis zum konfessionellen Zeitalter

2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bartel
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Collective Violence ◽  
History Of

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ildar Garipzanov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Periods

The concluding chapter highlights how the cultural history of graphic signs of authority in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages encapsulated the profound transformation of political culture in the Mediterranean and Europe from approximately the fourth to ninth centuries. It also reflects on the transcendent sources of authority in these historical periods, and the role of graphic signs in highlighting this connection. Finally, it warns that, despite the apparent dominant role of the sign of the cross and cruciform graphic devices in providing access to transcendent protection and support in ninth-century Western Europe, some people could still employ alternative graphic signs deriving from older occult traditions in their recourse to transcendent powers.

Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Machado
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Elite ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

This book analyses the physical, social, and cultural history of Rome in late antiquity. Between AD 270 and 535, the former capital of the Roman empire experienced a series of dramatic transformations in its size, appearance, political standing, and identity, as emperors moved to other cities and the Christian church slowly became its dominating institution. Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome provides a new picture of these developments, focusing on the extraordinary role played by members of the traditional elite, the senatorial aristocracy, in the redefinition of the city, its institutions, and spaces. During this period, Roman senators and their families became increasingly involved in the management of the city and its population, in building works, and in the performance of secular and religious ceremonies and rituals. As this study shows, for approximately three hundred years the houses of the Roman elite competed with imperial palaces and churches in shaping the political map and the social life of the city. Making use of modern theories of urban space, the book considers a vast array of archaeological, literary, and epigraphic documents to show how the former centre of the Mediterranean world was progressively redefined and controlled by its own elite.

The Letter Collection of Libanius of Antioch

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lieve Van Hoof
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Original Order ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Literary Composition ◽  
Letter Collection

Libanius’s letter collection is the largest to survive from antiquity, and indeed it is one of the most important sources on the socio-cultural history of late antiquity. Nevertheless, it has been only partially translated and selectively studied; this chapter, by contrast, focuses on the collection as a whole. First, it analyzes the three most important manuscripts, which shows 300 roughly identical letters in varying order. Second, it examines the collection’s design and its effects on interpretation. Finally, it dives into the question of editorial origins: did Libanius or some posthumous admirer compile the collection? Thus this chapter will show that reading Libanius’ letters in their original order—not in the chronological order first proposed by Otto Seeck and adopted by most editors and translators—not only enriches our understanding of the individual letters, but also shows the value of the letter collection as a unified literary composition.

scholarly journals DECONSTRUCTING THE SYMBOLIC CITY: JEROME AS GUIDE TO LATE ANTIQUE ROME

2012 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 125-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Grig
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
History Of ◽  
Saint Jerome ◽  
The City ◽  
Main Attraction

This article considers the writings of Saint Jerome as a source for writing a cultural history of the city of Rome in late antiquity. Jerome is of course, in many respects, an unreliable witness but his lively and often conflicted accounts of the city do none the less provide significant insights into the city during an age of transition. He provides a few snippets for the scholar of topography, but these do not constitute the main attraction. Jerome's city of Rome appears above all as a textual palimpsest: variously painted in Vergilian colours as Troy and frequently compared with the biblical cities of Babylon, Bethlehem and Jerusalem. In the final analysis, it is argued, Jerome's Rome is surprisingly unstable, indeed a ‘soft city’.

A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Roman World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
Essential Resource ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
Traditional Approaches

This volume balances traditional approaches towards education with the new history of education that tackles the topic from a much broader scope. The chapters integrate evidence from the Greek and the Roman world, next to Christian evidence from late antiquity. An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education, A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.

Musikalische Diagramme zwischen Spätantike und Karolingerzeit

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-293
Author(s):  
Matteo Nanni
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Martianus Capella ◽  
Working Out

AbstractDuring the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, different strategies of visualizing music were adopted. In this article the history and the development of music-related diagrams is put into the larger context of a cultural history of visualization. The philosophical discussion on notational iconicity and diagrammatology, known as ‘Schriftbildlichkeit’, supplies a theoretical background for the description of the music diagrams offered here. The basic question is how visuality and musical graphic (diagrams and notation) interact focusing on a specific visual logic related to musical issues. After a short introduction to Sybille Krämer‘s concept of diagram and after working out some main characteristic of medieval diagrams, a selection of music related diagrams is depicted. The sources presented range from ancient Greek and Latin descriptions of musical diagrams (Aristoxenus of Tarentum, Phaenias of Eresus, Bakchios and Vitruvius) to the wing diagrams of Aristides Quintilianus and Martianus Capella, the structural graphics by Boethius and concludes with the notational diagrams in the Carolingian music treatises (Musica and Scolica Enchiriadis).

A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
The One

‘Home’ is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus’ epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the domestic sphere in late antiquity. We can recognise the idea even if there is no word for it that quite corresponds to our own: the Greek oikos and the Latin domus mean both house and family, the essential components of home. To attempt a history of ‘the home’ in antiquity means bringing together two separate, if closely related, fields of study. On the one hand, study of the family, both in the legal frameworks that define it as institution and the literary representations of it in daily life; on the other, archaeological study of the domestic setting, within which such relationships are played out. Ranging across a period of over a millennium, this collection looks at the home as a force of integration: of the worlds of family and of the outsider in hospitality; of the worlds of leisure and work; of the worlds of public and private life; of the world of practical structures and furnishings and the world of religion.

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