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The History of Religion: Ancient Rome Edition 1960–2026

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Celia E. Schultz
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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The Final Period of the Roman Constitutional History: the Later Roman Empire and the Dominate or Period of the Absolute Monarchy

Journal on European History of Law
One of the aspects that caracterizes the period of the so-called Dominate (Dominatus) or Absolute Monarchy is the fact that the imperial power makes use of religion to legitimize itself.
Carlos Sardinha
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The Monetary Reforms of the Romans and the Finds of Roman Denarii in Eastern and Northern Europe

Current Swedish Archaeology, 1993
Monetary measures undertaken inside the Roman Empire might be responsible for the composition of finds of Roman coins made ontside the Empire. A possible link between the composition of the denarius finds in Barbarian Europe, on the one hand, and the ...
Lennart Lind
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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
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The Roman Empire

One-man rule vanquished the pluralistic and competitive system of the Roman Republic in the first century BCE. The first emperor was Augustus Caesar (r. 31 BCE–14 CE), and the empire was originally established as hereditary in the Julio-Claudian dynasty he founded.
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The Eight Faces of Roman Imperialism. Review of Revell, L. (2009). Roman Imperialism and Local Identities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2016
Referring to the work by Louise Revell, a lecturer in Roman History at the University of Southampton, the author examines the peculiarities of interpretation of Roman imperialism, and issues of cultural and political identity in the 1st–2nd Century AD ...
Maxim Valerievich Shisterov
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Terendak Military Cemetery: Bodies, Burials, and ‘Operation Bring Them Home'

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Terendak Military Cemetery occupies an unusual position in the history of Australian war cemeteries. Initially established to service the needs of the community at Terendak Garrison—the operational base for Commonwealth forces in Malaya during the early years of the Cold War—it became the official overseas burial site of Australian dead during the ...
Hannah Swaine, Kate Ariotti
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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