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Saint Severinus of Noricum Catholic.Net
Saint Severinus of Noricum Catholic.net Roman martyrology: He labored to evangelize the region of Noricum (part of. modem Austria), establishing a number of monasteries and gaving aid and comfort to the many refugees and victims of the invasion of the region by Attila and the Huns. He was known for his preaching and prophecies, Severinus died on January 5 and enshrined in the Benedictine monastery of San Severino. SHORT BIOGRAPHY A.D. 482. We know nothing of the birth or country of this saint. From the purity of his Latin, he was generally supposed to be a Roman; and his care to conceal what he was according to the world, was taken for a proof of his humility, and a presumption that he was a person of birth. He spent the first part of his life in the deserts of the East; but inflamed with an ardent zeal for the glory of God, he left his retreat to preach the gospel in the North. At first he came to Astures, now Stokeraw, situate above Vienna; but finding the people hardened in vice, he foretold the punishment God had prepared for them, and repaired to Comagenes, now Haynburg on the Danube, eight leagues westward of Vienna. It was not long ere his prophecy was verified; for Astures was laid waste, and the inhabitants destroyed by the sword of the Huns, soon after the death of Attila. Saint Severinus’s ancient host with great danger made his escape to him at Comagenes. By the accomplishment of this prophecy, and by several miracles he wrought, the name of the saint became famous. -
Paths of Western Law After Justinian M
Pace University DigitalCommons@Pace Pace Law Faculty Publications School of Law 1-1-2006 Paths of Western Law After Justinian M. Stuart Madden Pace Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty Recommended Citation Madden, M. Stuart, "Paths of Western Law After Justinian" (2006). Pace Law Faculty Publications. Paper 130. http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty/130 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law at DigitalCommons@Pace. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pace Law Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Pace. For more information, please contact [email protected]. M. Stuart add en^ Preparation of the Code of Justinian, one part of a three-part presentation of Roman law published over the three-year period from 533 -535 A.D, had not been stymied by the occupation of Rome by the Rugians and the Ostrogoths. In most ways these occupations worked no material hardship on the empire, either militarily or civilly. The occupying Goths and their Roman counterparts developed symbiotic legal and social relationships, and in several instances, the new Germanic rulers sought and received approval of their rule both from the Western Empire, seated in Constantinople, and the Pope. Rugian Odoacer and Ostrogoth Theodoric each, in fact, claimed respect for Roman law, and the latter ruler held the Roman title patricius et magister rnilitum. In sum, the Rugians and the Ostrogoths were content to absorb much of Roman law, and to work only such modifications as were propitious in the light of centuries of Gothic customary law. -
A Vida De São Severino Da Nórica: Um Texto Fundamental Para a História Do Início Do Medievo
Revista Signum, v. 21, n. 1, 2020. A VIDA DE SÃO SEVERINO DA NÓRICA: UM TEXTO FUNDAMENTAL PARA A HISTÓRIA DO INÍCIO DO MEDIEVO THE LIFE OF SAINT SEVERINUS OF NORICA: A FUNDAMENTAL TEXT FOR THE HISTORY OF THE BEGINNING OF MEDIEVAL ERA Roberto da Silva Ribeiro Claretiano Rede de Educação [email protected] Resumo: Apresentamos a tradução parcial do Abstract: We present the partial translation of Comemoratório, mais conhecido como A Vida de the Commemoratorium, better known as The São Severino (511) escrito por Eugípio Africano Life of Saint Severinus (511) written by em que são narradas as experiências dos Eugyppius Africae in which are narrated the últimos colonos romanos a se retirarem da experiences of the last Roman settlers to leave fronteira do Danúbio depois da invasão dos the border on Danube River after the Goths godos. Por economia de espaço, não vamos invasion. Due to lack of space, we cannot publicar o texto completo, porém escolhemos publish the full text, but we have chosen the os trechos mais relevantes para o historiador, most relevant passages for the historian, omitindo passagens de natureza mais religiosa omitting passages of a more religious nature como orações e narrações de milagres avulsos. such as prayers and narrations of individual Palavras-chave: Godos; Queda do Império miracles. Romano; São Severino da Nórica. Keywords: Goths; Fall of the Roman Empire; Saint Severinus of Noricum. 1. Apresentação O Comemoratório (no original latino Commemoratorium), mais conhecido como A Vida de São Severino é um texto datado provavelmente de 5111 por Eugípio Africano pouco depois da morte do biografado, Severino de Nórica, que aconteceu em 482 no convento onde ambos professavam. -
Paths of Western Law After Justinian
Pace University DigitalCommons@Pace Pace Law Faculty Publications School of Law January 2006 Paths of Western Law After Justinian M. Stuart Madden Pace Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty Recommended Citation Madden, M. Stuart, "Paths of Western Law After Justinian" (2006). Pace Law Faculty Publications. 130. https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty/130 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law at DigitalCommons@Pace. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pace Law Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Pace. For more information, please contact [email protected]. M. Stuart add en^ Preparation of the Code of Justinian, one part of a three-part presentation of Roman law published over the three-year period from 533 -535 A.D, had not been stymied by the occupation of Rome by the Rugians and the Ostrogoths. In most ways these occupations worked no material hardship on the empire, either militarily or civilly. The occupying Goths and their Roman counterparts developed symbiotic legal and social relationships, and in several instances, the new Germanic rulers sought and received approval of their rule both from the Western Empire, seated in Constantinople, and the Pope. Rugian Odoacer and Ostrogoth Theodoric each, in fact, claimed respect for Roman law, and the latter ruler held the Roman title patricius et magister rnilitum. In sum, the Rugians and the Ostrogoths were content to absorb much of Roman law, and to work only such modifications as were propitious in the light of centuries of Gothic customary law. -
Jordanes and the Invention of Roman-Gothic History Dissertation
Empire of Hope and Tragedy: Jordanes and the Invention of Roman-Gothic History Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Brian Swain Graduate Program in History The Ohio State University 2014 Dissertation Committee: Timothy Gregory, Co-advisor Anthony Kaldellis Kristina Sessa, Co-advisor Copyright by Brian Swain 2014 Abstract This dissertation explores the intersection of political and ethnic conflict during the emperor Justinian’s wars of reconquest through the figure and texts of Jordanes, the earliest barbarian voice to survive antiquity. Jordanes was ethnically Gothic - and yet he also claimed a Roman identity. Writing from Constantinople in 551, he penned two Latin histories on the Gothic and Roman pasts respectively. Crucially, Jordanes wrote while Goths and Romans clashed in the imperial war to reclaim the Italian homeland that had been under Gothic rule since 493. That a Roman Goth wrote about Goths while Rome was at war with Goths is significant and has no analogue in the ancient record. I argue that it was precisely this conflict which prompted Jordanes’ historical inquiry. Jordanes, though, has long been considered a mere copyist, and seldom treated as an historian with ideas of his own. And the few scholars who have treated Jordanes as an original author have dampened the significance of his Gothicness by arguing that barbarian ethnicities were evanescent and subsumed by the gravity of a Roman political identity. They hold that Jordanes was simply a Roman who can tell us only about Roman things, and supported the Roman emperor in his war against the Goths. -
Calendar of Roman Events
Introduction Steve Worboys and I began this calendar in 1980 or 1981 when we discovered that the exact dates of many events survive from Roman antiquity, the most famous being the ides of March murder of Caesar. Flipping through a few books on Roman history revealed a handful of dates, and we believed that to fill every day of the year would certainly be impossible. From 1981 until 1989 I kept the calendar, adding dates as I ran across them. In 1989 I typed the list into the computer and we began again to plunder books and journals for dates, this time recording sources. Since then I have worked and reworked the Calendar, revising old entries and adding many, many more. The Roman Calendar The calendar was reformed twice, once by Caesar in 46 BC and later by Augustus in 8 BC. Each of these reforms is described in A. K. Michels’ book The Calendar of the Roman Republic. In an ordinary pre-Julian year, the number of days in each month was as follows: 29 January 31 May 29 September 28 February 29 June 31 October 31 March 31 Quintilis (July) 29 November 29 April 29 Sextilis (August) 29 December. The Romans did not number the days of the months consecutively. They reckoned backwards from three fixed points: The kalends, the nones, and the ides. The kalends is the first day of the month. For months with 31 days the nones fall on the 7th and the ides the 15th. For other months the nones fall on the 5th and the ides on the 13th. -
25011016 Justinian
"Our Most Pious Consort Given Us by God": Dissident Reactions to the Partnership of Justinian and Theodora, A.D. 525-548 Author(s): Charles Pazdernik Source: Classical Antiquity, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Oct., 1994), pp. 256-281 Published by: University of California Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25011016 Accessed: 12-01-2017 22:58 UTC REFERENCES Linked references are available on JSTOR for this article: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25011016?seq=1&cid=pdf-reference#references_tab_contents You may need to log in to JSTOR to access the linked references. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms University of California Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Classical Antiquity This content downloaded from 128.228.173.41 on Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:58:39 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms CHARLES PAZDERNIK "Our Most Pious Consort Given Us by God": Dissident Reactions to the Partnership of Justinian and Theodora, A.D. 525-548 T E VIVIDNESS with which the reign of Justinian I and his empress Theodora holds our imagination emerges no less from the coloring given the period in the writings of contemporary figures than from the events themselves, however momentous they were. -
The Ruin of the Roman Empire
7888888888889 u o u o u o u THE o u Ruin o u OF THE o u Roman o u o u EMPIRE o u o u o u o u jamesj . o’donnell o u o u o u o u o u o u o hjjjjjjjjjjjk This is Ann’s book contents Preface iv Overture 1 part i s theoderic’s world 1. Rome in 500: Looking Backward 47 2. The World That Might Have Been 107 part ii s justinian’s world 3. Being Justinian 177 4. Opportunities Lost 229 5. Wars Worse Than Civil 247 part iii s gregory’s world 6. Learning to Live Again 303 7. Constantinople Deflated: The Debris of Empire 342 8. The Last Consul 364 Epilogue 385 List of Roman Emperors 395 Notes 397 Further Reading 409 Credits and Permissions 411 Index 413 About the Author Other Books by James J. O’ Donnell Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher preface An American soldier posted in Anbar province during the twilight war over the remains of Saddam’s Mesopotamian kingdom might have been surprised to learn he was defending the westernmost frontiers of the an- cient Persian empire against raiders, smugglers, and worse coming from the eastern reaches of the ancient Roman empire. This painful recycling of history should make him—and us—want to know what unhealable wound, what recurrent pathology, what cause too deep for journalists and politicians to discern draws men and women to their deaths again and again in such a place. The history of Rome, as has often been true in the past, has much to teach us. -
Bizans İmparatorluğu Zamanında Amida (Diyarbakır) (IV.-VII
ISSN: 1309 4173 (Online) 1309 - 4688 (Print) Volume 7 Issue 2, Special Issue on Byzantine, p. 77-97, March 2015 Bizans İmparatorluğu Zamanında Amida (Diyarbakır) (IV.-VII. Yüzyıl) Amida during the Reign of the Byzantine Empire (4-7th Centuries CE) Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ahmet KÜTÜK Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi - Mardin Öz: Bu makalede, erken Bizans döneminde Bizans ve Sasani İmparatorlukları arasında sürdürülen sınır savaşları ve Sasanilerin Amida’ya karşı gerçekleştirdikleri 359 ve 503 yılı kuşatmaları incelenerek, İmparatorluğu’nun doğuda takip ettiği sınır politikasının genel esasları tespit edilmektedir. Bizans ve Sasani İmparatorlukları arasındaki mücadelelerde, Mezopotamya’da Nisibis (Nusaybin), Anastasiopolis (Dara), Singara (Sincar), daha kuzeyde Silvan (Meyyafarikin), Theodesiopolis (Erzurum) gibi şehirlerin doğrudan sınır hattında olması hasebiyle imparatorluk için birinci dereceden önem arz ettikleri görülmektedir. Amida (Diyarbakır), Tella (Viranşehir), Resu’l Ayn (Ceylanpınar), Callinicum (Rakka) gibi yerleşim yerleri ise daha geride ikinci dereceden savunma hattı olmuşlardır. Sasani ordularının zaman zaman birinci hattı aşarak ikinci hattın en önemli şehri olan Amida’ya kadar gelmesi imparatorluk için bir alarm durumu olarak JHS telakki edilmiş, sınırda katı önlemler alınmıştır. Roma kaynaklarında 4. yüzyılın ikinci yarısından 7. yüzyılın ortalarına kadar ki dönemde Amida vesilesiyle zikredilen olaylar, bu şehrin özellikle 363’ten sonraki dönemde askeri ve idari açıdan daha stratejik bir konum kazandığını H i s t o r y göstermektedir. S t u d i e s Anahtar Kelimeler: Doğu Roma İmparatorluğu, Bizans, Amida, Sasaniler, II. Şapur, I. Kavad Volume 7 Issue 2 Abstract: This article examines in general the border wars between the Byzantine and the Sasanid Special empires in the early Byzantine period and in particular the Sasanid siege of Amida in 359 and 503. -
The Discourse of Herrschaft As the Practice of Herrschaft in the Fifth Century 1 Patrick J
The Discourse of Herrschaft as the Practice of Herrschaft in the Fifth Century 1 Patrick J. Geary* This essay examines the spectrum of political action and dominance from Constantinople to the frontiers of Noricum and Gaul at the end of the fifth century by comparing the lives of Zeno the Isurian, Theoderic the Great, Severinus of Noricum and Genovefa of Paris. Keywords: Herrschaft, ethnicity, Zeno, Theoderic, Severinus, Genovefa Max Weber famously defined Herrschaft as »die Möglichkeit, den eigenen Willen dem Ver- halten anderer aufzuzwingen,« and further distinguished on the one hand »die Herrschaft kraft Interessenkonstellation,« and on the other »die Herrschaft kraft Autorität.«2 One way to compare the nature of power from the center of the late Roman Empire to its periphery in the last half of the fifth century is to take Weber’s two »ideal types« of Herrschaft as a point of departure, even if, as he recognized, boundaries between the two are fluid. They are, after all, only models, but as George Box famously observed, »essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.«3 Moreover, the discourses within which the practice of Herrschaft is presented and grounded is anything but transparent: tropes and genres both provide a way into understanding the exercise of power but can also obscure, for cultural reasons, this exercise. Europe in the fifth century experiences a spectrum of formal and informal modes of Herrschaft, from long-established imperial authority to ad-hoc moments of what seem to correspond to Weberian charismatic Herrschaft. Weber’s models are wrong when conside- ring Herrschaft in its myriad manifestations in the fifth century, but they are indeed useful. -
The Imperial Administrative System in the Ninth Century, with a Revised Text
THE BRITISH ACADEMY SUPPLEMENTAL PAPERS I The Imperial Administrative System in the Ninth Century t With a Revised Text of The Kletorologion of Philotheos J. B. Bury Fellow of the Academy London Published for the British Academy By Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Amen Corner, E.G. Price Ten Shillings and Sixpence net THE BRITISH ACADEMY SUPPLEMENTAL PAPERS I The Imperial Administrative System in the Ninth Century With a Revised Text of The Kletorologion of Philotheos By J. B. Bury Fellow of the Academy London Published for the British Academy By Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Amen Corner, E.G. 1911 SUMMARY OF CONTENTS PAGE BIBLIOGRAPHY .......... 3 A. PRELIMINARY .......... 7 (1) Sources for institutional history. text of Philotheos. (2) The (3) The contents and sources of the Kletorologion. The Taktikon Uspenski. (4) Scope of the following investigation. General comparison of the Constaiitinian with the later Byzantine system. Sta 20 B. DIGNITIES (at /?/oa/3etW di'at) ...... Sia 36 C. OFFICES (at \6yov dtat) ....... I. crrpar^yot. II. So/ACOTlKOl. III. Kptrai. IV. V. VI. VII. dtat D. DIGNITIES AND OFFICES OF THE EUNUCHS . .120 I. d^tat Sta ^paj8etW. II. d^tat Sta \6yov. TEXT OF THE KLKTOROLOGION OF PHILOTHEOS . 131 Ml 226210 BIBLIOGRAPHY SOURCES. Saec. V. [Not. Dig.] Notitia Dignitatum, ed/Seeck, 1876. [C. Th.] Codex Theodosianus, ed Mommsen, 1905. Novettae Theodosii II, &c., ed. Meyer, 1905. [C. I.] Codex lustinianus (see below). Saec. VI. [C. I.] Codex lustinianus, ed. Kruger, 1884. lustiniani Novettae, ed. Zacharia von Lingenthal, 1881. lustini II, Tiberii II, Mauricii Novettae, in Zacharia v. Lingenthal, Ins Graeco-Romanum , Pars III, 1857. -
The Gateway to the Middle Ages.Pdf
940.1 D83g2 v.l 62-06827 Duckett The gateway to the Middle Ages Italy KANSAS CITY, MO PUBLIC LIBRAE MAlOCTZS )j(fljNOV061993 THE GATEWAY TO THE MIDDLE AGES ITALY The Gateway to the Middle Ages ITALY by Eleanor Shipley Duckett ANN ARBOR PAPERBACKS THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS FIRST EDITION AS AN ANN ARBOR PAPERBACK 1961 COPYRIGHT BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 1938 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY IN TORONTO, CANADA, BY AMBASSADOR BOOKS LIMITED MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO MARY ELLEN CHASE AND OUR CAMBRIDGE FAMILY CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND 1934-1936 ABBREVIATIONS PL Patrologia Latina PG Patrologia Graeca M.G.H Monumenta Germaniae Historica M.H.B Monumenta Historica Britannica R.LS RerumltalicarumScriptores (Muratori) Script, rer. Merov. Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum Script, rer. Lang. Scriptores Rerum Langobardicarum C.S.H.B. Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae C.S.E.L Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum P.L.M Poetae Latini Minores P.W Real-Encyclopadie, ed. Pauly-Wissowa C.M.H Cambridge Medieval History H.S.C.P Harvard Studies in Classical Philology C.P Classical Philology Schanz .... Schanz-Hosius-Kriiger : Geschichte der romischen Literatur, IV, 2, 1920 Manitius . M. Manitius : Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters, I, 1911 Bardenhewer . O. Bardenhewer: Geschichte der alt- kirchlichen Literatur, V, 1932 PREFACE THE GATEWAY TO THE MIDDLE AGES is made up of three parts. This one deals with Italy in the sixth century. This with the of seat of "gateway" opened passing Italy, government of the Western part of the Roman Empire, into rude barbarian hands, when Ravenna and Rome, chief cities of this Roman Empire in the West, fell in 476 to the invader Odovacar and his Germanic hordes; when, in his turn, Odovacar was forced, some seventeen years later, to yield to another barbarian conqueror, who seized his throne at Ravenna, overran his kingdom, killed him by his own hand, and thus became lord of Italy and its people.