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Early mechanisms of abbatial succession: the case of Iona (563–704)
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 73-100, February 2022., 2022 Comments about succession to the Iona abbacy rarely go beyond the observation that most of the early abbots – but not all – belonged to the Cenél Conaill, the kindred of Iona’s founder, Saint Columba. This point privileges the role of eligibility criteria in the succession process at the expense of agency.
Patrick McAlary
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Δημοκρατεῖσθαι or μοναρχεῖσθαι, That is the Question: Cassius Dio and the Senatorial Principate [PDF]
, 2020 Cassius Dio’s account of Caligula’s principate pivots on the divide between Caligula’s ‘democratic’ debut and his later decline into despotism. As Dio reports, the murder of the emperor in 41 CE polarised the Senate on the question of whether to abolish ...
Antonio Pistellato
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Networking in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Younger
Journal of Historical Network Research, 2020 Living during the heyday of the Roman Empire, the senator Pliny the Younger (ca. AD 61/62 – 113/114) was in contact with the social and political elite of his time: several Emperors, fellow senators like Cornelius Tacitus, Sosius Senecio, and Arulenus ...
Fabian Germerodt
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De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 137-160, May 2021., 2021 This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities ...
Robert Flierman, Megan Welton
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Cassius Dio and the Principate [PDF]
, 2020 In the Imperial books of his Roman History, Cassius Dio focuses on individual emperors and imperial institutions to promote a political framework for the ideal monarchy, and to theorise autocracy’s typical problems and their solutions.
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Principal Effectiveness and Principal Turnover [PDF]
Education Finance and Policy, 2019 Research demonstrates the importance of principal effectiveness for school performance and the potentially negative effects of principal turnover. However, we have limited understanding of the factors that lead principals to leave their schools or about the relative effectiveness of those who stay and those who turn over. We investigate the association
Jason A. Grissom, Brendan Bartanen
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Artificum scaenicorum studium amoremque inhonestum probrosumque esse
Classica Cracoviensia, 2014 Artificum scaenicorum studium amoremque inhonestum probrosumque esse. The Actor and their Audience in the Roman Theatre The paper analyses the role and position of actors in ancient Rome, from the times of the Republic to the principate.
Elżbieta Loska
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Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2021 This article aims to enlighten on the situation of people who bore the nicknames Threptus and Trophimus under the Principate. Imported from the Greek nouns θρεπτος and τρόφιμος, the two cognomina arise from a ...
Gaëlle Perrot
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Principal loading analysis [PDF]
Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2021 This paper proposes a tool for dimension reduction where the dimension of the original space is reduced: a Principal Loading Analysis (PLA). PLA is a tool to reduce dimensions by discarding variables. The intuition is that variables are dropped which distort the covariance matrix only by a little.
Jan O. Bauer, Bernhard Drabant
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Cicero's concept of natural law and the political system of the principate of the Roman state
Politologija, 1999 In this short study, the author, save using Cicero's concept of the Natural Law, tries to derive inside the determinants concerning the birth of the political system of the principate of the Roman State.
Saulius Arlauskas
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