Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Social History ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Population Movement ◽  
Paradigm Case ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
History Of

It has been said that the study of names is a ‘paradigm case of the convergence of disciplines, where the history of language meets social history’. This volume illustrates that truth in relation to a privileged area of investigation, ancient Anatolia: the evidence from ancient Anatolia has exceptional chronological depth, reaching back to the second millennium BC; under the Roman empire it acquires exceptional density; and it has a complexity which reflects the arrival of many waves of immigrants (Persians, Greeks, Thracians, Galatians, Jews, Romans) in a region that was already culturally diverse. Names are often the only clue to the origins and history of a particular community. At a collective level, striking shifts in time within one community from one naming tradition to another most commonly attest cultural influence, occasionally actual population movement. But the interaction between different groups is such that it is often unsafe to infer an individual’s ethnic origin from name alone. Anatolian evidence also richly illustrates the psychology of naming, whether the Ionian taste for seemingly derogatory names deriving from the nursery, the fascination with luxury reflected in names such as Sardonyx and Nard, or the growing adoption by Greek civic elites of ‘second names’. Published exactly fifty years after Louis Robert’s Noms indigènes dans l’Asie Mineure gréco-romaine, this volume builds on and goes beyond that classic work, while remaining true to its guiding principle that ‘tout dépend des régions et des époques’.

Judeans in Sippar and Susa during the First Century of the Babylonian Exile: Assimilation and Perseverance under Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Rule

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yigal Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Achaemenid Empire ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

AbstractThe present study discusses the attestations of persons of Judean origin in Neo-Babylonian cuneiform tablets (of the period between 550 and 490 bce) as possible evidence of some aspects of the social history of the community of Judeans exiled to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar II. Although the number of such attestations is very small, it is nonetheless possible to single out two groups which display different patterns of personal name giving across generations. In one instance, a group of merchants in the city of Sippar (belonging mostly to a single family) uses, in part, distinctly Judean personal names in the first generation of the exile, but abandons them completely in favor of Babylonian theophoric names in the next generation. In another instance, a group of individuals active mostly in Susa and probably belonging to the families of royal officials (as suggested by names and patronymics of the type of Beamtennamen – names expressing a pious wish for the well-being of the king) displays the use of Yahwistic personal names even though the fathers of those individuals bore Babylonian theophoric names. It is suggested that the persistence of Yahwistic – hence distinctly Judean – names among royal officials or their direct offspring, even after the previous generation bore Babylonian names, reflects a considerable measure of tolerance toward ethnically foreign elements in the royal administration (the relevant examples date from the period after the establishment of the Achaemenid empire). In contrast, the progressing adoption of Babylonian names among the Judean merchants in Sippar in the first half of the sixth century bce seems likely to reflect assimilation into the native Babylonian society, fostered by the necessity to pursue commercial dealings with the Ebabbar temple of Šamaš and the social circles centered around the temple, which consisted of conservatively minded upper strata of the native Babylonian society. Editions of the cuneiform tablets discussed in the present study are provided in the Appendix.

Vitae et Miracula Sancti Christoduli Patmensis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis D. Polemis ◽  
Theodora Antonopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Fourth Crusade ◽  
Monastic Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
First Time ◽  
Critical Aspects

The Greek dossier on St. Christodoulos, founder of the monastery of Patmos (1088), consists of four texts, three vitae and a narrative of a miracle, all written within roughly two centuries after the saint’s death by brethren of his monastic community. They are not only important for the reconstruction of the course of life of one of the most famous Byzantine saints, but they are also a unique source for the political and social history of Byzantium and the Eastern Mediterranean from the late 11th to the 13th century. Despite their great importance, these texts have remained almost unknown until today because they are contained in a 19th century edition that is hardly accessible any more and was intended exclusively for the monks and visitors of the John Prodromos Monastery. The new critical edition, which is accompanied by a critical and exhaustive apparatus of sources as well as an index of personal names and of all passages of previous authors quoted or referred to in the texts, will be appreciated by historians and literary scholars alike. Historians will now have at their disposal an important source for the history of the Comnenian period and beyond, while scholars interested in Byzantine literature will have the opportunity to examine in depth four important and rather complex documents, which offer three different visions of the phenomenon of sanctity in Byzantium at the eve of the Fourth Crusade. The introduction discusses several literary, historical and text-critical aspects of the dossier. Extensive summaries in English make these texts available to a wider audience for the first time.

Cognomina, Supernomina and CIL x 1729

Antichthon ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.R.C. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Social History ◽  
Primary Material ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Much of the primary material for the social history of the early Roman empire is inscriptional and an uncomfortably high proportion of this material consists of just names. Names of persons are what we have in abundance and the study of nomenclature at all levels of society is bound to be a most important key to the interpretation of that society.

scholarly journals Do not worry in Kinywang’anga: Reading Matthew 6:25–34 in a Tanzanian village

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakari Häkkinen
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Social History ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
Harsh Conditions

One of the presumptions of this article is that most of the people in the nascent ‘Christian’ communities were ordinary people struggling with questions of living under harsh conditions in a country that was occupied by an enemy force. Another presumption is that the history of these ordinary people from antiquity needs to be heard. The article aimed, with the help of archaeology, cultural anthropology, social history of antiquity, literature of the time as well as other disciplines, to create a social context of Jesus and his disciples. The article approached the Gospels in the New Testament from the poor, the majority of people living in the 1st century Roman Empire. It gives a brief analysis of one of the poverty texts, namely Matthew 6:25–34. By means of interviews, stories of villagers in Tanzania, as well as their interpretations of the Gospel texts, have been documented. The people of Kinywang’anga serve as a test case for reading the ‘do not worry’ exhortation in the Matthean passage.

scholarly journals The training of the teacher in the 21th century: an approach with the history of medieval education

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (100) ◽  
pp. 706-722
Author(s):  
Terezinha Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Long Duration ◽  
Medieval Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
Education In Brazil

Abstract Our purpose is to deal with teacher education in Brazil, with the history and history of education as our guiding principle, based on texts by Thomas Aquinas. For us, in the process of teacher training, the professionals involved must be clear that teaching and learning occur when these characters are aware of the need to understand the intellectual “essence” of man. Therefore, we recover the Dominican master to make explicit that knowledge becomes effective when there is an understanding that men are, par excellence, social beings. Based on these principles, we will examine data about teaching in Brazil, relying on the reflections of the medieval master to show the relevance to a country whose people have knowledge acquired by and in history. In theoretical terms, our arguments follow the principles of social history, with special attention to the idea of long duration.

International Religious Networks: Methodism and Popular Protestantism, c. 1750 – c. 1850

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 143-164
Author(s):  
David Hempton
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
New England ◽  
Social History ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Religious Networks ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

The benefits of using an international lens to understand both the complexity and the essence of religious movements have been well demonstrated in a number of important recent studies. In fact it has become quite unusual to write about early modern puritanism and Protestantism without taking at least a transatlantic, if not a global, perspective. Philip Benedict’s important book, Christ’s Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism (2002) has shown that only by looking at Calvinism as an international movement taking root in France, the Netherlands, the British Isles, the Holy Roman Empire, eastern Europe and New England can one properly identify the distinctive aspects of Calvinist piety and begin to answer bigger questions about Calvinism’s alleged contribution to the emergence of modern liberal democracy. He shows, for example, that while no post-Reformation confession had a monopoly of resistance to unsatisfactory rulers, Calvinists, because of their deep hostility to idolatrous forms of worship and unscriptural church institutions, were generally speaking more unwilling than others to compromise with or submit to religious and political institutions antithetical to their interests. Similarly, although Benedict is sceptical about the supposed connections between Calvinism and capitalism and Calvinism and democracy, he does show that Calvinism was a midwife of modernity through its routinization of time, its promotion of literacy, and its emphasis on the individual conscience.

scholarly journals Remarks on Foreignness in Eighteenth-Century German Cookbooks

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 44-59
Author(s):  
David Do Paço
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social History ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
History Of

This article analyses how food, recipes, and techniques and manners introduced as foreign were integrated in eighteenth-century German cookbooks. Doing so it intends to transfer a methodology recently developed in social history to history of food in order to get a better understanding of how eighteenth-century European societies defined foreignness. It claims that cookbooks should be considered as topographies of the table and presents the Holy Roman Empire as a particularly rich field of study for history of circulation in the early modern world. 

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