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Empire of coercion: Rome, its ruler and his soldiers [PDF]
, 2005 This thesis explores the basis of the political power wielded by Roman emperors. Its hypothesis is that their power was of an essentially coercive nature, and was a manifestation of the Roman ethos of competition for personal dominance.
Foulkes, Martin Edward
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Logistèrion, à propos d'une inscription de Kymè récemment publiée
, 2004 A recently published inscription shows that the dynast Philétairos gave shields to the city of Kyme. The penalties for misusing these shields shed new light on this city's institutions, especially as concerns the prosecution of magistrates.
Fröhlich, Pierre
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Skin Colour and Priesthood. Debating Bodily Differences in Early Modern Catholicism*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 135-152, June 2024.Can people of different skin colours become Catholic priests? What may seem self‐evident from today's perspective, Catholic theologians and canon lawyers controversially debated in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. While most authors agreed that colour per se was not a problematic factor, an increasing number argued that non‐white ...
Brendan Röder
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Rome and Near Eastern Kingdoms and Principalities, 44-31 BC: A Study of Political Relations During Civil War [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis presents a critical analysis of the political relations between Rome on the one hand and Near Eastern kingdoms and principalities on the other hand during the age of civil war from 44 until 31 BC.
VAN-WIJLICK, HENDRIKUS,ANTONIUS,MARGAR
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Social organizations and political institutions: why China and Europe diverged
Economica, Volume 91, Issue 362, Page 347-382, April 2024.Abstract This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on, while Europe remained politically fragmented for much longer.
Joel Mokyr, Guido Tabellini
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The archontai in Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia (IVth cent. B.C. - IVth cent. A.D.)
, 2021 Le sujet invite à analyser en détail le rôle et l’importance de l’archontat et des archontes dans la vie socio-politique des cités grecques d’Asie Mineure entre les époques classique et impériale romaine.
Baldé, Sana
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 1, Page 24-51, January 2024.The law of treason has been criticised for being based on ‘outdated’ statutes which are inflexible and unsuitable for modern needs. However, a historical examination of the evolution of treason in Britain and its empire suggests that the law was often adaptable.
Michael Lobban
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Possessio and its protection from the Late Roman to Byzantine Law
, 2016 The subject of the present doctoral dissertation is the examination of the possession in the Late Roman and Byzantine Law. Aim of the study is to collect, systematically present and analyze the regulations and any data of the byzantine legal order, which
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Photoanthropocene: The decentered lens of colonial photography
Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 101-117, January 2024.Abstract Photography—what Barthes called “the living image of a dead thing”—is often overlooked in discussions of cultural heritage decolonization. This paper focuses on a historical photograph attributed to the Hong Kong commercial photographer Lai Fong 黎芳, also known as Afong, that documents the aftermath of the Tianjin massacre of 1870.
Emma Reisz
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, 2016 Este artículo tiene como objeto la delineación del marco conceptual y del contexto histórico para desarrollar nuevas investigaciones sobre las iniciativas imperiales en el ámbito económico durante los dos primeros siglos del Imperio romano.
Scapini, Marianna; Università degli Studi di Verona
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