Leontopolis: Kaiserstadt ohne Bischof?

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-506
Author(s):  
Philipp Pilhofer
Keyword(s):  
Source Material ◽  
Legal Text ◽  
The City

Abstract The city of Leontopolis in Isauria first appears in the sources towards the end of the 5th century, more precisely: in a legal text of the later Codex Iustinianus. In general, the surviving information is very sparse. In this essay, the source material is reviewed, in particular the mentioned law and the Martyrdom of Konon of Bidana. On this basis, a date of foundation is suggested, a new localisation of the city is established and the question of its own episcopal see is pursued.

IMPERIAL JUSTICE? THE ABSENCE OF IMAGES OF ROMAN EMPERORS IN A LEGAL ROLE

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-260
Author(s):  
Olivier Hekster
Keyword(s):  
Source Material ◽  
Religious Leadership ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
Ultimate Source ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City

Roman emperors were at the pinnacle of society. They were supreme commanders of the armies, the highest priests and the ultimate source of law and justice. These three roles were made clear to the inhabitants of the empire from the reign of Augustus onwards through a variety of media. Public ceremonies showed emperors leaving the city for campaigns, and returning in triumph, at sacrifice, or sitting in judgement. Inscriptions likewise indicated the main roles of emperors through titulature or narrative. The military and the religious leadership of emperors were also made abundantly clear through public monuments and on centrally issued coinage. Yet, throughout Roman imperial history these last two types of source material are surprisingly silent on the emperors’ legal role.

scholarly journals Pepys’s plague: How the reaction of the individual, society and the medical profession to the Great Plague of 1665 is similar to our experience of Covid-19

2020 ◽  
pp. 096777202094878
Author(s):  
Conor Mosli-Lynch ◽  
Nicholas O'Shaughnessy
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Samuel Pepys

Introduction The celebrated diarist Samuel Pepys kept a detailed diary of exceptional candour throughout the years of The Great Plague of 1665, in which he recorded his own observations as well as the reactions of society and the medical profession to this unprecedented event. In this paper we examine his diaries at the time of the plague, as well as in the proceeding years and consider how the experiences of Pepys are similar to our own experiences of the 2020 Coronavirus Epidemic. Method We examined the entire diaries of Samuel Pepys from 1664 to 1670, as well as supplementary source material, looking for all references to The Great Plague. Results and Conclusion: Though written over 350 years ago the diaries paint a very co-orientated response of society to The Plague. Accurate official statistics were available weekly, isolation was imposed and the government made provision for ‘pest houses' to be set up. Pepys is grateful to the doctors who remain in London but critical of the majority who flee the city. Pepys's own reactions, which progress from fear of contracting the disease to fear for his business interests, mirror today's reaction to The 2020 Coronavirus Epidemic.

Augustus and Lares Augusti

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet I. Flower
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Ancient Source ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the nature of Augustus' religious reform, its implementation by the princeps, and its impact in the city. It uses a combination of approaches to elucidate the variety of ancient source material and the intersections between the different pieces of surviving evidence. A consideration of Octavian/Augustus' role and image in the city before 8/7 BC serves to introduce a more detailed analysis of the moment of religious reform itself, as far as we can understand it from our slim evidence. The chapter also looks at lares augusti in their own right and in the context of their cult at the crossroads shrines, and argues that no cult of Augustus' genius was to be found at the crossroads in Rome or in the home during his lifetime.

scholarly journals Gaiman, Banks and Miéville – Hybrid Space and Genre

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
Urša Vogrinc Javoršek
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Active Force ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
General Mechanics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hybrid Space ◽  
The City

The analysis of three recent British novels: Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere (1996), Iain Banks’ Transition (2009) and China Miéville’s The City & the City (2009) strives to uncover structural parallelisms and the inherent evolution in their development, plot structuring and presentation. It is centred on the exhibited relation to the structure and general mechanics of space. The interpretations of space are based on Foucault’s heterotopias, the rhizome of Deleuze and Guattari, and Certeau’s absent space, which show how the active force of space and the complexity of the genre identity are interconnected, and how they interact with the social and political engagement of the works and their wider cultural and social context. These seminal works of the British Boom provide a rich source material for an outline of the process of interplay of genre identity and political engagement, and an overview of how this interplay affects their plot, style and the protagonists.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Veronica West-Harling
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Geographical Spread ◽  
The People ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
The City

The introductory chapter sets out the chronological span and the geographical spread of the book, the questions asked, and the methodology followed. It examines the source material and their cross-referencing with those of both visual and material culture, finishing with a summary of the historiography. The structure of the book is set out as a form of theatrical performance. The Introduction and Chapter 1, the context and the questioning of the sources, provide the overture; Chapters 2 and 3 focus on the people, the actors on the stage; Chapter 4 focuses on how they are involved in the life of the city through props: places of power, manifestations, and instruments through which they are exercised. Chapter 5 follows for the action or plot of the play: how those who control public space exercise it to reflect and promote consensus or to manifest discontent and rebellion

scholarly journals Wartime Housing and Boarding

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-116
Author(s):  
Jennifer Dunkerson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Source Material ◽  
World War ◽  
Housing Shortage ◽  
Tax Assessment ◽  
The City

In this study of boarding during World War II, new primary source material is used to reveal a tendency for necessary boarding arrangements in overcrowded, industrial, urban areas. The names, occupations and marital status of boarders were included in the tax assessment rolls for the city of Hamilton in the years spanning 1939 to 1951. Based on contemporary housing studies and more recent analyses of housing and boarding in our industrial past, a correlation may be found between the existence of boarders in a specific area of Hamilton and the nationwide trends of housing shortage, family formation, and wartime production.

Storehouse of Stimulants: Opium in the Market of al-Mukhâ at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: Statements by Dutch Eyewitnesses

Itinerario ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.G. Brouwer
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Port City ◽  
Travel Guide ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

Around the Yemeni port city of al-Mukhâ hangs the intoxicating smell of coffee. Almost no publication can be pointed out, from popularising travel guide to elaborate research report, in which mocha is not considered the export item par excellence, or rather the icon of the city. Only during the Montpellier conference on coffee, held in October 1997, was it concluded, in a contribution devoted to the emergence of the town in the early seventeenth century, that al-Mukhâ had been neither exclusively or mainly a coffee port, nor the sole one, or even the most important one. Mocha, in fact, “was not at all synonymous with al-Mukhâ”. In subsequent years, it could be demonstrated on the basis of abundant source material that spices, textiles, minerals, porcelains and aromatics were sold in the Mukhâwi market as well.

scholarly journals Analysis of Vibration Field Parameters of the City by the Correlation-Regression Method

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55
Author(s):  
A. N. Vikhot ◽  
◽  
V. A. Lutoev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Mathematical Expectation ◽  
Regression Method ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Correlation Ratio ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Vibration Field ◽  
Calculations Distribution ◽  
The City ◽  
Method Of Correlation

Analysis of the parameters of the vibration field of the city was carried out on the example of the area of Syktyvkar. The vibroseismic monitoring data were used as a source material. We obtained the estimates of the mathematical expectation, variances and standard deviations, checked the normal distribution of random variables. The values of the correlation coefficient and correlation ratio were determined applying the method of correlation-regression analysis and carrying out the necessary calculations. Distribution diagrams were also constructed and approximating functions and estimated equations were obtained. This approach can be used to predict the parameters of the vibration field on the city territory and made it possible to give recommendations on its application as selection rationale of construction sites and environmental survey in the field of man-induced impact.

The City in the Rearview Mirror

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Slobin
Keyword(s):  
Source Material ◽  
Marge Piercy ◽  
Rearview Mirror ◽  
The City

This chapter mines the retrospective, reflective work of writers and artists who grew up in Detroit and have looked back at how the city shaped their work, particularly in terms of music. Quotes from poems and writings show how the book and its author’s stake in memory as history and source material is shared by a number of creative Detroiters. Featured artists include Philip Levine, Mike Kelley, Marge Piercy, and Crystal Williams. Philip Levine Mike Kelley

scholarly journals In Visioning the City: Urban History Techniques Through Historical Photographs

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
David Mattison
Keyword(s):  
Urban History ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Source Material ◽  
The Past ◽  
External Evidence ◽  
Transmission Of Information ◽  
Historical Photographs ◽  
The City

The past is always present in photographs. Unique visual statements and readily reproducible photographs assist in reconstructing the past through the transmission of information by sight. One of the more important, yet often neglected, areas of scholarship is the documentary photograph taken for or representing a certain place or event in history. Provided its context and accuracy are determined and verified through external evidence, the photograph is primary source material whose judicious use by historians can relay information not available through other kinds of records.

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