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The War of Tacfarinas (17-24 AC): Historiographic Balance and new Perspectives about the Causes of its Outbreak

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2019
This paper reviews the war of Tacfarinas in the North of Africa during the government of the emperor Tiberius (17-24 AC), in order to understand his causes and consequences for Roman policy.
Noelia CASES MORA
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Exploring Pompeii: discovering hospitality through research synergy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Hospitality research continues to broaden through an ever-increasing dialogue and alignment with a greater number of academic disciplines. This paper demonstrates how an enhanced understanding of hospitality can be achieved through synergy between ...
André J.   +41 more
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Politics as a science in 17th-century Spain. Principles of governmentality in the Spanish Tacitus of Baltasar Álamos de Barrientos

open access: yesÁgora
Baltasar Álamos de Barrientos’ Tacito español, ilustrado con aforismos (1614) can be interpreted through a Foucauldian framework to explore shifts in early modern political thought.
Carolina Ferraro
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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender

open access: yesInternational 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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Senecan Progressor Friendship and the Characterization of Nero in Tacitus' Annals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Argues that Tacitus’ shaped his account of Seneca and the characterization of Nero within his social environment according to features characteristic of Seneca’s conception of friendship. Surprisingly, Tacitus assigns to Nero an active power: The emperor
Wildberger, Jula
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INHERITANCE AND INCEST: TOWARD A LÉVI‐STRAUSSIAN READING OF MONTESQUIEU'S DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS1

open access: yesHistory 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
wiley   +1 more source

Politeness, “Humanitas” and Imperialism. A Reflection by Montesquieu (“EL”, XIX, 27) and Tacitus’ “Agricola”

open access: yesMontesquieu.it, 2020
A reflection by Montesquieu on the relationship between absolutism, idleness and politeness (“EL” XIX, 27) is connected, through a note later deleted in the manuscript, to chap.
Sergio Audano
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« L’ombre de Brutus » : l’action politique de Gaston d’Orléans et les valeurs de « l’ancienne Rome »

open access: yesBulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2021
True to the memorialists and satirists of the seventeenth century, contemporary historiography generally assesses Gaston d’Orléans’s political activities of the 1630s with reference to ‘ancient Rome’s’ republican values, celebrated by Balzac and ...
Delphine Amstutz
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Broadening the New Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Ethnographical Debate of His Time—The Criticism of Jewish and Pagan Ancestral Customs (1 Thess 2:13-16) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
George H. van Kooten, “Broadening the New Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Ethnographical Debate of His Time—The Criticism of Jewish and Pagan Ancestral Customs (1 Thess 2:13-16),” in Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites: Jewish, Christian, and ...
Kooten, George H. van,
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