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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes to Roman Imperialism

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 1993
It is argued that Romano-British studies have been influenced by the existence and organisation of Britain’s own empire. A positive conception of Roman imperialism is still current and this indicates that many Romanists have yet to escape from moral ...
Melania Cazzulo
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

The taberna structures of Roman Britain [PDF]

, 2000
The aim of this thesis is to explain how the shops (tabernae) of Roman Britain related to society. The buildings of a more humble nature, including tabernae, have been frequently overlooked at the expense of the more ornate public buildings and villas ...
Maq Mahon, Ardle J.
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
wiley   +1 more source

ROMAN LAW FOUNDATIONS OF THE MODERN INSTITUTION OF PERSONAL SERVITUDES

Pravo
Although servitudes did not originally emerge in Roman law, but much earlier, Roman law laid the legal foundations for this institution, as well as for the majority of legal institutions that, through the influence of Roman legal history and tradition ...
Nenad D. Stefanovic, Vladimir Vuletić , Goran Milojević   +2 more
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Law and justice in the later Roman Empire [PDF]

, 2007
Book synopsis: The appearance in 1964 of A.H.M. Jones’ The Later Roman Empire 284–602: A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey transformed the study of the Late Antique world. In this volume a number of leading scholars reassess the impact of Jones’
Humfress, Caroline
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Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
wiley   +1 more source

Roman victory propaganda – Revelation’s response: A historical and theological study

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The believers of Christ in the 1st century AD find themselves in a difficult situation. On one hand, they receive the gospel about Jesus’ victory over the world.
Łukasz Bergel
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Los "beneficia" concedidos a las ciudades de Acaya en el año 66 d.C.

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 1997
Situación de las ciudades griegas durante en Alto Imperio romano y la Román Empire, política faborable de Nerón, análisis de los beneficios concedidos en su viaje a la provincia Acaya. The Greek cities sitiation in the Roman Empire, and the Nero´s
Pilar Fernández Uriel
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