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"Review of <I>The Middle East Under Rome</I>"
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU School of Theology and Seminary Faculty Publications School of Theology and Seminary 10-2006 "Review of The Middle East under Rome" Michael Patella OSB College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_pubs Part of the Asian History Commons, and the European History Commons Recommended Citation Patella, Michael. Review of The Middle East under Rome, by Maurice Sartre, Translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings with Jeannine Routier-Pucci. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, vol. 68 issue 4, (2006): 741-743. Originally published in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, https://catholicbiblical.org/publications/cbq. BOOK REVIEWS 741 archal Narrative and Mosaic Yahwism [Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992]), P. suggests that a Mosaic narrator, though shaping the text to suggest a typological connection with Joshua's conquest, may have judged the massacre by Simeon and Levi, for example, as inappropri ate in the ancestral "dispensation," making it an "antitype," of later "holy war" under Joshua. A reading in the Christian "dispensation" would reset the ethical accents of the story once more. Although Christian readers might possibly interpret Simeon and Levi's violence typologically as spiritual "violence" deployed by the church against real vio lence, they must reject the actual violence perpetrated by Simeon and Levi as an anti- model. In chap. 6, P. addresses various feminist perspectives on Genesis 34, admits its "patriarchal" perspective (though relativized by the biblical metanarrative), and allows for midrashic reconstructions of largely unvoiced perspectives of female characters (Dinah, the Hivite women); but he resists firmly any imposition of extrabiblical canons as authori tative for the story's interpretation. -
The Politics of Roman Memory in the Age of Justinian DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the D
The Politics of Roman Memory in the Age of Justinian DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Marion Woodrow Kruse, III Graduate Program in Greek and Latin The Ohio State University 2015 Dissertation Committee: Anthony Kaldellis, Advisor; Benjamin Acosta-Hughes; Nathan Rosenstein Copyright by Marion Woodrow Kruse, III 2015 ABSTRACT This dissertation explores the use of Roman historical memory from the late fifth century through the middle of the sixth century AD. The collapse of Roman government in the western Roman empire in the late fifth century inspired a crisis of identity and political messaging in the eastern Roman empire of the same period. I argue that the Romans of the eastern empire, in particular those who lived in Constantinople and worked in or around the imperial administration, responded to the challenge posed by the loss of Rome by rewriting the history of the Roman empire. The new historical narratives that arose during this period were initially concerned with Roman identity and fixated on urban space (in particular the cities of Rome and Constantinople) and Roman mythistory. By the sixth century, however, the debate over Roman history had begun to infuse all levels of Roman political discourse and became a major component of the emperor Justinian’s imperial messaging and propaganda, especially in his Novels. The imperial history proposed by the Novels was aggressivley challenged by other writers of the period, creating a clear historical and political conflict over the role and import of Roman history as a model or justification for Roman politics in the sixth century. -
BIOGRAPHY WORKBOOK for GRADES 7-12 Belisarius
BELISARIUS BIOGRAPHY WORKBOOK FOR GRADES 7-12 Belisarius BELISARIUS (505-565 C.E.) Few men have performed Emperor Justinian, was an equally greater achievements than this remarkable personage, capable of general, to whom it was given to be conceiving and accomplishing conqueror again and again over magnificent designs, yet withal of a nations hitherto invincible, and to mean, ungenerous, ungrateful arrest, during his own lifetime, the character. Justinian was responsible disintegration of the Roman Empire. for the codification (under He lived in the early part of the sixth Christianized conditions) of the old century of the Christian era, though Roman law (known as the Justinian the date of his birth is not certainly Code), so as to serve as the foundation known, and he was in the prime of life of jurisprudence to all the European about 530. Belisarius is believed to nations except the English; the have been the son of a peasant of building of the church of St. Sophia Thrace, probably of Slavonian descent, (Hagia Sophia); and the rolling back as his name, stripped of its classical for a time the flood that on all sides form, would belong to that language was overwhelming the ancient Empire and would be Beli-than, or the White of Rome, were all due to this prince. Prince. 2. Who ruled as emperor of the 1. Describe Belisarius’ father. Eastern Roman (Byzantine) ____________________________________ Empire during the life of ____________________________________ Belisarius? ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ For the last two centuries, the Apparently he began life as a Eastern and the Western Roman common soldier, and gradually rose by empires had been separated, though courage and ability. -
Numismatic and Metrological Parallels for the Iconography of Early Byzantine Marriage Jewelry
Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship History of Art 2010 Numismatic and Metrological Parallels for the Iconography of Early Byzantine Marriage Jewelry. The Question of the Crowned Bride Alicia Walker Bryn Mawr College, [email protected] Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/hart_pubs Custom Citation Alicia Walker, "Numismatic and Metrological Parallels for the Iconography of Early Byzantine Marriage Jewelry. The Question of the Crowned Bride," Travaux et Mémoires 16 (2010): 1-14. This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College. http://repository.brynmawr.edu/hart_pubs/58 For more information, please contact [email protected]. COLLEGE DE FRANCE - CNRS CENTRE DE RECHERCHE D'HISTOIRE ET CIVILISATION DE BYZANCE ORIENT ET MEDITERRANEE (UMR 8167) - BYZANCE COLLEGE DE FRANCE - INSTITUT D'ETUDES BYZANTINES TRAVAUXET MEMOlRES TRAVAUX ET MEMOlRES Fondes par Paul LEMERLE Continues par Gilbert DAGRON 16 Comite de redaction : Jean-Claude CHEYNET, Vincent DEROCHE, Denis FEISSEL, Bernard FLUSIN, Constantin ZUCKERMAN MELANGES Secretariat de redaction, relecture et composition: Emmanuelle CAPET Avec Ie concours de Delphine LAURITZEN CECILE MORRISSON Ouvrage pub/ie avec fe concours de fa fondation Ebersoft du College de France et de l'universite Paris-Sorbonne ©Association des Amis du Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance - 2010 Association des Amis du Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance ISBN 978-2-916716-28-2 52, rue du Cardinal-Lemoine - 75005 Paris ISSN 0577-1471 2010 NUMISMATIC AND METROLOGICAL PARALLELS FOR THE ICONOGRAPHY OF EARLY BnANTINE MARRIAGE JEWELRY THE QUESTION OF THE CROWNED BRIDE' by Alicia WALKER Within the material culture ofearly Byzantium, a corpus ofjewelry-including rings, pendants, and belts-depicts marriage iconography, which usually consists ofa man and woman flanking a cross or figure ofChrist. -
The Developmentof Early Imperial Dress from the Tetrachs to The
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Birmingham Research Archive, E-theses Repository University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. The Development of Early Imperial Dress from the Tetrarchs to the Herakleian Dynasty General Introduction The emperor, as head of state, was the most important and powerful individual in the land; his official portraits and to a lesser extent those of the empress were depicted throughout the realm. His image occurred most frequently on small items issued by government officials such as coins, market weights, seals, imperial standards, medallions displayed beside new consuls, and even on the inkwells of public officials. As a sign of their loyalty, his portrait sometimes appeared on the patches sown on his supporters’ garments, embossed on their shields and armour or even embellishing their jewelry. Among more expensive forms of art, the emperor’s portrait appeared in illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, and wall paintings such as murals and donor portraits. Several types of statues bore his likeness, including those worshiped as part of the imperial cult, examples erected by public 1 officials, and individual or family groupings placed in buildings, gardens and even harbours at the emperor’s personal expense. -
The Crucial Development of Heavy Cavalry Under Herakleios and His Usage of Steppe Nomad Tactics Mark-Anthony Karantabias
The Crucial Development of Heavy Cavalry under Herakleios and His Usage of Steppe Nomad Tactics Mark-Anthony Karantabias The last war between the Eastern Romans and the Sassanids was likely the most important of Late Antiquity, exhausting both sides economically and militarily, decimating the population, and lay- ing waste the land. In Heraclius: Emperor of Byzantium, Walter Kaegi, concludes that the Romaioi1 under Herakleios (575-641) defeated the Sassanian forces with techniques from the section “Dealing with the Persians”2 in the Strategikon, a hand book for field commanders authored by the emperor Maurice (reigned 582-602). Although no direct challenge has been made to this claim, Trombley and Greatrex,3 while inclided to agree with Kaegi’s main thesis, find fault in Kaegi’s interpretation of the source material. The development of the katafraktos stands out as a determining factor in the course of the battles during Herakleios’ colossal counter-attack. Its reforms led to its superiority over its Persian counterpart, the clibonarios. Adoptions of steppe nomad equipment crystallized the Romaioi unit. Stratos4 and Bivar5 make this point, but do not expand their argument in order to explain the victory of the emperor over the Sassanian Empire. The turning point in its improvement seems to have taken 1 The Eastern Romans called themselves by this name. It is the Hellenized version of Romans, the Byzantine label attributed to the surviving East Roman Empire is artificial and is a creation of modern historians. Thus, it is more appropriate to label them by the original version or the Anglicized version of it. -
Geoffrey Greatrex the EARLY YEARS of JUSTIN
ELECTRUM * Vol. 12 KrakOw 2007 Geoffrey Greatrex THE EARLY YEARS OF JUSTIN I’S REIGN IN THE SOURCES (1) The ‘conspiracy’ of Amantius, July 518 In the night of 8—9 July 518 the aged emperor Anastasius died during a violent storm. On the following day, 9 July, the magister ofJiciorum Celer gathered together the other high palace officials to deliberate and choose another emperor. After some dispute, as the De Ceremonils relates, Justin proved to be the oniy candidate upon whom all could agree and he was duly elected and crowned. Just one week later the patriarch John was obliged by an excited Constantinopolitan crowd to hold a service in honour of the Fathers of Chalcedon. At the end of the service, those in attendance started to cry out condemnations of those who opposed the council, among whom they named Amantius, the praeposrtus sacri cubicuti, 2 On the said to be th new Tzumas, i.e. an influential eunuch opposed to Chalcedon. following day, or at the latest by 18 July, Amantius was dead, executed along with several his 3 Most sources claim that Amantius had been attempting to secure the of associates. throne for his domesticus Theocritus and that it was for this reason that he and his followers4 were killed, and this is what is generally accepted in detailed treatments of Justin’s reign. A closer examination of the sources, however, throws up certain problems and suggests that Details in Vasiliev 1950: 68—73, and De Cerernoniis, vol. 1, ed. J. Reiske (Bonn, 1829) 1.93. Malalas, Chronographia, 17.1, places the start of Justin’s reign on 9 July, whereas Cyril of Scythopolis, Vita Sabae, ed. -
The Case of Michael Glykas' Letter Collection and Biblos Chronike In
DOI 10.1515/bz-2020-0036 BZ 2020; 113(3): 837–852 Eirini-Sophia Kiapidou Writing lettersand chronography in parallel: the case of Michael Glykas’ letter collection and Biblos Chronike in the 12th century Abstract: This paper focuses on the 12th-century Byzantine scholarMichael Gly- kas and the two main pillars of his multifarious literaryproduction, Biblos Chronike and Letters, thoroughly exploring for the first time the nature of their interconnection. In additiontothe primary goal, i.e. clarifying as far as possible the conditions in which these twoworks were written, taking into account their intertextuality,itextends the discussion to the mixture of features in texts of dif- ferent literarygenre, written in parallel, by the same author,basedonthe same material. By presentingthe evidence drawnfrom the case of Michael Glykas, the paper attemptstostress the need to abandon the strictlyapplied taxonomical logic in approaching Byzantine Literature, as it ultimatelyprevents us from con- stitute the full mark of each author in the history of Byzantine culture. Adresse: Dr.Eirini-Sophia Kiapidou, UniversityofPatras, Department of Philology,Univesity Campus,26504Rio Achaia, Greece;[email protected] Accordingtothe traditionalmethod of approaching Byzantine Literature,asap- plied – under the influenceofclassical philology – in the fundamental works of Karl Krumbacher,¹ Herbert Hunger² and Hans-Georg Beck³ and indeedrepro- Ι wish to thankProfessor StratisPapaioannou as wellasthe two anonymous readersfor making valuable suggestions on earlier versions of thispaper.All remaining mistakes, of course,are mine. K. Krumbacher,Geschichteder byzantinischen Litteratur vonJustinian bis zum Ende des os- trömischen Reiches (–). München . H. Hunger, Die hochsprachliche profane Literatur der Byzantiner. Handbuch der Altertumwis- senschaft ..,I–II. München . H.-G. -
Roanoke County Police Department Outstanding Warrants List As of 08
Roanoke County Police Department Outstanding Warrants List as of 09/20/2021 Press the Ctrl, F keys to search by Last Name with Adobe Acrobat Reader's search feature or just scroll through the document. Name Sex Age Warrant Charge A Acros Lopez, Julio CeserMale 30 Felony By Prisoner Adams, Benjamin EarlMale 32 Fail To Appear On Misdemeanor Charge Adams, Jacqueline AFemale 37 Contributing To The Delinquency Of A Minor Adams, Jacqueline AFemale 37 False Report Of Crime To Police Aker, Ruthie Age Of Children Required To Attend School Albright, Katherine ElizabethFemale 30 Order Of Protection (Final) Aliff, James MaxwellMale 31 Revocation Of Suspension Of Sentence/Probation Alouf, Hollie HarrisFemale 49 Zoning Violation Al-Tamimi, Yassin KamelMale 21 Reckless Driving - General Amos, Tommie LeeMale 50 Order Of Protection (Final) Anderson, Chris AaronMale 30 Violation Of Stalking Protective Order Anderson, Rodney WestonMale 59 Contempt Of Court: Misbehavior In Court Andrew, Richard DavidMale 33 Possess, Transport Firearms, Ammunitions, Explosives By Convicted Felons Andrew, Richard DavidMale 33 Destruction Of Property, Monument <$1000 W/Int Andrew, Richard DavidMale 33 Credit Card Theft - From Building Andrew, Richard DavidMale 33 Assault & Battery -Family Member Andrew, Richard DavidMale 33 Petit Larceny: Building <$1000 Andrew, Richard DavidMale 33 Simple - Assault By Strangulation Argueta, Enso NoelMale 34 Fail To Appear On Misdemeanor Charge Armstrong, Sandra KayFemale 58 Fail To Appear On Misdemeanor Charge Arrington, Crystina JasmineFemale -
The Geopolitics on the Silk Road
109 The Geopolitics on the Silk Road: Resurveying the Relationship of the Western Türks with Byzantium through Their Diplomatic Communications Li Qiang, Stefanos Kordosis* The geopolitics pertaining to the Silk Road network in the period from the 6th to the 7th cen- tury (the final, albeit important, period of Late Antiquity) was intertwined with highly strate- gic dimensions.1 The frequent arrival of hoards of nomadic peoples from inner Eurasia at the borders of the existing sedentary empires and their encounters and interactions formed the complicated political ecology of the period. These empires attempted to take advantage of the newly shaped situation arising after such great movements strategically, each in their own interest. How did they achieve their goals and what problems were they confronted with? In this paper, I will focus on the relations the Western Türks had with Byzantium and use it as an example in order to resurvey these complicated geopolitics. In the first part, attention will be given to the collection of Byzantine literature concerning the Western Türks. Then, on the basis of the sources, the four main exchanges of delegations between the Western Türks and Byzantium will be discussed, in which the important status of the 563 embassy – as it was the first Türk delegation sent to Byzantium – will be emphasized. The possible motives behind the dispatch of the delegations and the repercussions they had will be presented. Finally, through reviewing the diplomatic communication between the Western Türks and Byzantium, attention will be turned to the general picture of geopolitics along the Silk Road, claiming that the great empire of the West – similar to today’s superpowers – by means of their resources (mainly diplomacy) manipulated the geopolitics on the Silk Road, especially the nomadic people pursuing their own survival and interests, who were only treated as piec- es on a chessboard for keeping the balance with the rest of the superpowers. -
A Contemporary View of Ancient Factions: a Reappraisal
A Contemporary View of Ancient Factions: A Reappraisal by Anthony Lawrence Villa Bryk A thesis presented for the B.A. degree with Honors in The Department of Classical Studies University of Michigan Spring 2012 i “Ab educatore, ne in circo spectator Prasianus aut Venetianus neve parmularius aut scutarius fierem, ut labores sustinerem, paucis indigerem, ipse operi manus admoverem, rerum alienarum non essem curiosus nec facile delationem admitterem.” “From my governor, to be neither of the green nor of the blue party at the games in the Circus, nor a partizan either of the Parmularius or the Scutarius at the gladiators' fights; from him too I learned endurance of labour, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready to listen to slander.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 1.5 © Anthony Lawrence Villa Bryk 2012 ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost, I would like to thank my thesis advisor, Professor David S. Potter for his wisdom, guidance, and patience. Professor Potter spent a great deal of time with me on this thesis and was truly committed to helping me succeed. I could not have written this analysis without his generous mentoring, and I am deeply grateful to him. I would also like to thank Professor Netta Berlin for her cheerful guidance throughout this entire thesis process. Particularly, I found her careful editing of my first chapter immensely helpful. Also, Professor Sara Ahbel-Rappe’s Pagans and Christians seminar was essential to my foundational understanding of this subject. I also thank her for being a second reader on this paper and for suggesting valuable revisions. -
The Gender of Money: Byzantine Empresses on Coins (324–802)’ Gender & History, Vol.12 No
Gender & History ISSN 0953–5233 Leslie Brubaker and Helen Tobler, ‘The Gender of Money: Byzantine Empresses on Coins (324–802)’ Gender & History, Vol.12 No. 3 November 2000, pp. 572–594. The Gender of Money: Byzantine Empresses on Coins (324–802) Leslie Brubaker and Helen Tobler Coins played different roles in the ancient and medieval worlds from those that they play in the economy today. In the late antique and early Byzantine world – that is, roughly between 300 and 800 – there were in a sense two currencies: gold coins and base metal (copper) coins. Both were minted and distributed by the state, but the gold solidi (in Latin) or nomismata (in Greek), introduced in 309, were by the end of the fifth century in practice used above all for the payment of tax and for major transactions such as land sales, while the copper coins (nummi, replaced in 498 by folles) were broadly the currency of market transactions.1 Another striking difference is that late antique and Byzantine coin types changed with great frequency: as an extreme example, Maria Alföldi catalogued over seven hundred different types for a single emperor, Constantine I the Great (306–37, sole ruler from 324).2 There are many reasons for this, but one of the most import- ant has to do with communication: centuries before the advent of the press, images on coins were a means to circulate information about the state. This is particularly true of the first three and a half centuries covered by this article. While the extent to which coins were used in daily exchange transactions is still uncertain, and was very variable, the frequency with which they appear in archaeological excavations of urban sites throughout the former eastern Roman empire until 658 indicates their wide diffusion.