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Acrior est Germanorum libertas? Tacitus' Germani as More (and Less) than Freedom-Fighters
HistosThis paper explores the portrayal of the Germani in Tacitus’ Germania and in his historical works. It highlights how in the Germania’s first half they are presented as a remote and free people, while in the second they appear as less distant and less ...
Katie Low
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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender
International Review of Mission, Volume 114, Issue 1, Page 52-61, May 2025.Abstract The canons of the Council of Nicaea appear to confirm what some might consider today to be stereotypical views of gender identity. However, according to Philostorgius, a Christian church historian of Late Antiquity, Constantine's stepsister Constantia played an influential role in the decisions of some sceptical key players to sign the creed ...
Martin Illert
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Tacitus on the Parthians [PDF]
, 2017 Tacitus is the only Roman historian who devoted his works to such an extent to Rome’s eastern neighbor – the Parthian Empire. Scholars have researched the problem of Tacitus’ attitude towards the Parthians on many occasions.
Dąbrowa, Edward
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Pallas, 2015 Nowadays, Agrippina the Younger is the most famous woman of the Julio-Claudian dynasty because of her reputation of an incestuous mother and a cruel woman eager to dominate. But another woman in this family had a real influence.
Adeline Adam
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INHERITANCE AND INCEST: TOWARD A LÉVI‐STRAUSSIAN READING OF MONTESQUIEU'S DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS1
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 46-74, March 2025.ABSTRACT The premise of this article is that Montesquieu, while seen as an Enlightenment thinker who contributed centrally to the development of the social sciences before the period of discipline formation in the nineteenth century, is generally appreciated in only the vaguest of terms.
Paul Cheney
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The construction of the orator in the early Imperial period (3IBC- ADI38) [PDF]
, 2006 This thesis explores the construction of the orator and oratory in Roman Imperial Literature and Social History and engages with theoretical works on gender definition to ask the questlon 'What does it mean to be an oratOr in the hundred and fifty years ...
Furse, Adrian Thomas
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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The history of make-believe: Tacitus on imperial Rome [PDF]
, 2003 A theoretically sophisticated and illuminating reading of Tacitus, especially the Histories , this work points to a new understanding of the logic of Roman rule during the early Empire. Tacitus, in Holly Haynes' analysis, does not write about the reality
Tacitus, Cornelius, Haynes, Holly
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Criminalization: A Useful Category for Historical Analysis
Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 41-44, March 2026.
Shelly Matthews
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History, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 461-487, December 2024.Abstract This article establishes the intellectual origins and underpinnings of the early modern soldier‐scholar in order to better understand the military humanist tradition within which Sir Walter Ralegh's writings on naval warfare and logistics were conceived and composed. By locating Ralegh within this tradition, the article provides a new critical
MATTHEW WOODCOCK
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