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Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists in Roman law from some thirty European and North American universities. The eighth volume focuses on the impact of the Roman Empire on religious behaviour, with a special focus on the dynamics of ritual. The volume is divided into three sections: ritualising the empire, performing civic community in the empire and performing religion in the empire.

Frontiers in the Roman World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

Frontiers in the Roman World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-05-10
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on different ways in which Rome created, changed and influenced (perceptions of) frontiers.

The Impact of Imperial Rome on Religions, Ritual and Religious Life in the Roman Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

The Impact of Imperial Rome on Religions, Ritual and Religious Life in the Roman Empire

The fifth volume Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 200 BC-AD 476) focuses on the impact of imperial Rome on religion, treating connections between Roman expansion and religion; the imperial impact on local cults; priests, priestesses and bishops and the divinity of Roman Emperors.

Living On The Edge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 588

Living On The Edge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-26
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

This book addresses common doubts and concerns Christians have concerning God and the Bible, including: claims from the 'New Atheism'; disputes over Bible archaeology; questions about the historical accuracy of the Bible; questions about the original texts of the Old and New Testament; questions about what the Bible really teaches concerning topics such as baptism, heaven and hell, satan and demons; questions about the value and relevance of the Bible's moral and ethical teachings.

Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 466

Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-05-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Contents: I. INSTRUMENTS OF IMPERIAL RULE. ECK, W.: Lateinisch, Griechisch, Germanisch ...? Wie sprach Rom met seinen Untertanen? TALBERT, R.: Rome’s provinces as framework for world-view. KOKKINIA, C.: Ruling, inducing, arguing: how to govern (and survive) a Greek province. SLOOTJES, D.: The governor as benefactor in Late Antiquity. LIGT, L. DE: Direct taxation in western Asia Minor under the early Empire. II. CONQUEST AND ITS EFFECTS BIRLEY, A.: Britain 71-105: advance and retrenchment. ROSSUM, J.A.. VAN: The end of the Batavian auxiliaries as ‘national’ units. COULSTON, J.C.N.: Military identity and personal self-identity in the Roman army. BRUUN, C.: The legend of Decebalus. III. R...

Crises and the Roman Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

Crises and the Roman Empire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh workshop of the international thematic network Impact of Empire, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact that crises had on the development and functioning of the Roman Empire from the Republic to Late Imperial times.

Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire

The title of this volume is 'Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire'. The papers contained in this volume focus on all three of these themes, within the context of the impact of the Roman empire upon the regions it dominated. The papers contained in the first part of the volume concentrate on appointment policies, career structures and the impact of military presence and recuitment, esp. in border provinces, in the period of the Principate (27 B.C. - A.D. 284). In the second part of the volume the reader will find papers on Roman jurists, administrators, and bureaucrats and articles about administrative procedures, the administration of justice, rescripts and the influence of learned juridical treatises in various regions of the Roman empire. The last section of the volume presents contributions on the impact of the Roman imperial administration and appointment policies on communal rights and politics, the composition of local councils, local administrative structures, Romanisation, and social mobility of regional and local notables in various provinces of the Roman Empire.

The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-11-28
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire assembles a series of papers on key themes of Roman mobility and migration, discussing i.a. the mobility of the army, of the elite, of women, and war-induced mobility and deportations.

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2017 Workshops
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2017 Workshops

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-01-28
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International International Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking (EI2N ), Fact Based Modeling ( FBM), Industry Case Studies Program ( ICSP ), International Workshop on Methods, Evaluation, Tools and Applications for the Creation and Consumption of Structured Data for the e-Society (Meta4eS), OnTheMove Academy (OTMA 2017), and ODBASE posters 2017, held as part of OTM 2017 in October 2017 in Rhodes, Greece. The 25 full papers presented together with 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The workshops covers data systems and Web semantics, distributed objects, Web services, databases, information systems, enterprise work flow and collaboration, ubiquity, interoperability, mobility, grid and high-performance computing.