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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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After the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire and the introduction of Buddhism into China, Christianity and Buddhism were both faced with the adjustment of the existing society. In the Roman Empire, faced with some censure, apologists began to write
Lin Wang
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The Impact of Imperial Rome on Religions, Ritual and Religious Life in the Roman Empire
The fifth volume Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 200 BC-AD 476) focuses on the impact of imperial Rome on religion, treating connections between Roman expansion and religion; the imperial impact on local cults; priests, priestesses and bishops and the ...
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ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Roman Culture in the Ottonian World
Roman culture outlived its empire in the West. Any study aiming to assess its relevance in the medieval period must consider that related conceptions and cultural features may change over time. A significantly different definition may have applied to
Laury Sarti
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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Geofinance and Fragmentation: Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies
ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), especially wholesale ones, were initially hailed as tools for frictionless global financial flows. Paradoxically, however, they are contributing to the fragmentation of the international financial system through the emergence of minilateral blocs of ‘friendly’ jurisdictions that have established, or ...
Lucia Quaglia, Amy Verdun
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The Monetary Reforms of the Romans and the Finds of Roman Denarii in Eastern and Northern Europe
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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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
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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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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