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Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II
Explores the political importance of senators for the maintenance of imperial rule under Constantine I and his son Constantius II.
Urban Interactions
This volume is dedicated to eliciting the interactions between localities across late antique and early medieval Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Significant research has been done in recent years to explore how late "Roman" and post-"Roman" cities, towns and other localities communicated vis-à-vis larger structural phenomena, such as provinces, empires, kingdoms, institutions and so on. This research has contributed considerably to our understanding of the place of the city in its context, but tends to portray the city as a necessarily subordinate conduit within larger structures, rather than an entity in itself, or as a hermeneutical object of enquiry. Consequently, not enough research...
Connected Histories of the Roman Civil Wars (88–30 BCE)
This book offers a distinctive take on the civil wars that unfolded in the Late Roman Republic. It frames their discussion against the backdrop of the Mediterranean contexts in which they were fought, and sets out to bring to the centre of the debate the significance of provincial agency on a traumatic and complex process, which cannot be understood through an exclusive focus on Roman and Italian developments. The study of the late Republican civil wars can be productively read as an exercise of ‘connected history’, in which the fundamental interdependence of the Mediterranean world comes to the fore through a set of case studies that await to be understood through a properly integrative approach. Our project brings together an international and diverse lineup of scholars, who engage with a wide range of literary, documentary, and archaeological material, and make a collective contribution to the reframing of a problem that requires a collaborative and interdisciplinary outlook, and can yield invaluable insights to the understanding of the Roman imperial project.
Rome's Vestal Virgins
Comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date, this volume offers a brand new analysis of the Vestal Virgins’ ritual function in Roman religion. Undertaking a detailed and careful analysis of ancient literary sources, Wildfang argues that the Vestals’ virginity must be understood on a variety of different levels and provides a solution to the problem of the Vestals’ peculiar legal status in ancient Rome. Addressing the one official state priesthood open to women at Rome, this volume explores and analyzes a range of topics including: the rituals enacted by priestesses (both the public rituals performed in connection with official state rites and festivals and the private rites associated only with the order itself) the division and interface between religion, state and family structure the Vestals’ participation in rights that were outside the sphere of traditional female activity. New and insightful, this investigation of one of the most important state cults in ancient Rome is an essential addition to the bookshelves of all those interested in Roman religion, history and culture.
MICAI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2009, held in Guanajuato, Mexico, in November 2009. The 63 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on logic and reasoning, ontologies, knowledge management and knowledge-based systems, uncertainty and probabilistic reasoning, natural language processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision and image processing, robotics, planning and scheduling, fuzzy logic, neural networks, intelligent tutoring systems, bioinformatics and medical applications, hybrid intelligent systems and evolutionary algorithms.
Worshippers of the Gods
Worshippers of the Gods shows how fourth-century Latin writers rethought traditional religion during Christianity's rise. Through five interlocking studies of inscriptions, laws, senatorial papers, and Christian polemics, it traces shifting conceptions of paganism from the Tetrarchic persecution, through Constantine's reign, to the 'disestablishment' of the Roman cults in the 380s.
Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism
Focusing on concepts, practices and images associated with purity in the ancient Mediterranean, this volume contributes new aspects to the current discussion about the forming of religious traditions, from a comparative perspective that acknowldges individual developments, mutual exchanges, as well as transcultural processes.
Memoriae civitatum: arqueología y epigrafía de la ciudad romana
El Imperio romano estuvo constituido por un gran número de variopintas ciudades de las cuales han llegado a nosotros abundantes ruinas arqueológicas y textos epigráficos. El estudio de estos testimonios directos del pasado nos permite recomponer y reinterpretar memorias colectivas que han sobrevivido al paso del tiempo. Aflora de este modo la identidad de cada civitas, plasmada con frecuencia en sus monumentos conmemorativos, en estrecha vinculación con el tejido social y el paisaje urbano, además de con el desarrollo de la vida política y religiosa de la comunidad correspondiente. Esta obra pretende buscar los elementos en común y, al mismo tiempo, profundizar en las singularidades de diferentes memoriae civitatum, tras pasar por el tamiz del historiador. Con este fin se han recopilado veintidós estudios de base epigráfica y/o arqueológica, referidos a distintos casos de ciudades, en su mayoría de época altoimperial. El marco geográfico nos ubica sobre todo en las provincias romanas de Baetica, Hispania citerior y Lusitania, pero también en las de Moesia superior y Aquitania, pasando por la misma Roma.
CIUDADES ROMANAS DE LA PROVINCIA BAETICA
El proyecto Ciudades Romanas de la Bética, CORPVS VRBIVM BAETICARVM (II-III), ha tenido como objetivo fundamental la recopilación de la información arqueológica más reciente y actualizada referida las ciudades de los conventus Cordubensis y Gaditanus, así como el establecimiento de los límites de los mismos; al igual que sucedería con la primera fase del proyecto para las demarcaciones del hispalense y astigitano. Con la intención de mantener el espíritu ya iniciado, así como el desarrollo metodológico, se cuenta en esta obra con síntesis temáticas elaboradas por diferentes especialistas, de manera conjunta éstas se acompañan de una entrada para cada una de las ciudades de lo...
