A Political and Cultural History of the Ancient World from Prehistoric Times to the Dissolution of the Roman Empire in the West

1950 ◽  
Vol 43 (14) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Mason Hammond ◽  
C. E. Van Sickle
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
The West ◽  
Material World ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture and fashion. Many of our current attitudes to the world of things are shaped by ideas forged in classical antiquity. We now understand that we do not merely do things to objects, they do things to us. Reinterpreting objects in Greece and Rome casts new light on our understanding of ourselves and turns the ancient world upside down. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.

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.

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
New Materials ◽  
The West ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions – from plastics to the digital to biotechnology – have created unprecedented scales of disruption, shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of the object. If the 20th Century demonstrated that humans can be treated like things whilst things can become ever more human, where will the 21st Century take us? The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.

Urban Formalism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Faflik
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
The West ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Street Protest ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Form ◽  
The City

Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to “read” a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York and Paris, were learning to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings, city peoples increasingly looked to the experiential patterns, or forms, from their everyday lives in an attempt to translate urban experience into something they could more easily comprehend. Urban Formalism interrogates both the risks and rewards of an interpretive practice that depended on the mutual relation between urbanism and formalism, at a moment when the subjective experience of the city had reached unprecedented levels of complexity. What did it mean to read a city sidewalk as if it were a literary form, like a poem? On what basis might the material form of a burning block of buildings be received as a pleasurable spectacle? How closely aligned were the ideology and choreography of the political form of a revolutionary street protest? And what were the implications of conceiving of the city’s exciting dynamism in the static visual form of a photographic composition? These are the questions that Urban Formalism asks and begins to answer, with the aim of proposing a revisionist semantics of the city. This book not only provides an original cultural history of forms. It posits a new form of urban history, comprised of the representative rituals of interpretation that have helped give meaningful shape to metropolitan life.

Mercury's Wings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. A. Talbert ◽  
Fred S. Naiden
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Near East ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
The West ◽  
Broad View ◽  
Communications Network ◽  
Religious Communication ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Transmission Of Information ◽  
Second Millennium Bce

Mercury’s Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World is the first volume of essays on ancient communications. The authors, who include Classicists, art historians, Assyriologists, and Egyptologists, take the broad view of communications as a vehicle, not just for the transmission of information, but also for the conduct of religion, commerce, and culture. Encompassed within this scope are varied purposes of communication such as propaganda and celebration, as well as profit and administration. Each chapter deals with either a communications network, a means or type of communication, or the special features of religious communication or communication in and among large empires. The spatial, temporal, and cultural boundaries of this volume take in the Near East as well as Greece and Rome, and cover a period of some 2,000 years, beginning in the second millennium BCE and ending with the spread of Christianity during the last centuries of the Roman Empire in the West. In all, about one quarter of the chapters deal with the Near East, one quarter with Greece, one quarter with Greece and Rome together, and one quarter with the Roman Empire and its Persian and Indian rivals.

scholarly journals Diogenes of Oenoanda on Cyrenaic Hedonism

2002 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 159-174
Author(s):  
David Sedley
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Substantial Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Exciting Time

One of the reasons why the past three decades have been an exciting time for historians of Epicureanism has been the revival of work on the Herculaneum papyri – very much a team effort. But another equally good reason has been provided by a remarkable solo act, Martin Ferguson Smith's pioneering work on the second-century AD Epicurean inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda – the largest of all Greek inscriptions to survive from the ancient world, a key text in the history of Epicurean philosophy, and an extraordinary snapshot of the (literally) monumental scale on which philosophical evangelism could be practised in the Roman empire.Smith has, almost single-handed, discovered and edited well over 100 new fragments of the inscription. This enabled him in 1993 to publish his comprehensive edition of the augmented inscription. But that was not the end of his labours. Returning to the site of Oenoanda, he has unearthed a substantial body of new ‘new fragments’, and has hopes of uncovering more in future seasons. A recent batch was published in a 1998 article. In this paper I want to consider just one of them, New Fragment 128, which fills a hole in the existing fr. 33 of Smith's edition. Thanks to this discovery, Smith has been able to supply the line-ends of the missing col. IV, and likewise to join the previously lost line-beginnings of col. V to the already surviving line-ends of that column. In addition, he has been able to make very convincing improvements to his previous readings of column III.

Book Review: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue suisse d'histoire/Rivista storica svizzera 56, 1 (2006), special issue Verkehrsgeschichte, Train Tracks: Work, Play and Politics on the Railway, The Bridges of Medieval England: Transport and Society, 400–1800, Social Dimensions of Sustainable Transport: Transatlantic Perspectives, Storia dei trasporti in Italia, Konzentration und Krise der deutschen Schiffahrt. Maritime Wirtschaft und Politik im Kaiserreich, in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus, Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure, Le Saint-Laurent et les Grands Lacs au temps de la vapeur 1850–1950, Carriers and Coachmasters: Trade and Travel before the Turnpikes, The Dangers of Bus Reregulation, Das Verkehrssystem als Modernisierungsfaktor. Straßen, Post, Fuhrwesen und Reisen nach Triest und Fiume vom Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zum Eisenbahnzeitalter, Cars and Culture: The Life Story of a Technology, Der holprige Siegeszug des Automobils 1895–1930. Zur Motorisierung des Straßenverkehrs in Frankreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz, Motorphobia: Antiautomobiler Protest in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik, The West Highland Railway: Plans, Politics and People, Handel und Verkehr im 20. Jahrhundert (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, Ships' Fastenings: From Sewn Boat to Steamship, Von der Preussag zur TUI. Wege und Wandlungen eines Unternehmens 1923–2003, St Christoph am Arlberg. Die Geschichte von Hospiz und Taverne, Kapelle und Bruderschaft, von Brücken, Wegen und Wasserstraßen, Säumern, Wirten und anderen Menschen an einem Alpenpaß. Ende des 14. bis Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts, Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations, Freizeit und Vergnügen vom 14. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, Von der Chaussee zur Schiene. Militär und Eisenbahnen in Preußen 1833 bis 1866

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-158
Author(s):  
Gijs Mom ◽  
Ian Carter ◽  
Stephan Epstein ◽  
John Whitelegg ◽  
Valentina Fava ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The West ◽  
Weimarer Republik ◽  
History Of ◽  
Train Tracks

scholarly journals The Venetians and the Venetian Quarter in Constantinople to the close of the Twelfth Century

1920 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horatio F. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Free State ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Eastern Empire

The foundation and development of the Venetian Quarter in Constantinople, and the history of the early trading relations between Venice and the Roman Empire are intimately connected with and illustrate the movement by which the Republic gradually passed from actual, through merely nominal, vassalage to actual and formal independence. That movement constitutes an essential part of early Venetian history, the growth of the Republic as a free State between the Empire of the East and the Empire of the West, both weak at sea and in need of a fleet which Venice alone was able to supply, and shows us the Republic skilfully steering her course between Saracens, Normans, Greeks and Germans towards her goal, naval supremacy in the Adriatic and the Levant.It is not the object of this paper to dwell on the larger movement, but rather to examine the relations between Venice and the Eastern Empire with special reference to the Venetian Quarter in Constantinople. Those relations were governed by the Chrysobulls, or Golden Bulls, whereby the Emperors made gradually extending concessions to the seamen and merchants of their vassal State.

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