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• 1. Italy after Charlemagne: scope and aims of the volume Clemens Gantner and Walter Pohl--
• 2. A brief introduction to Italian political history until 875 Clemens Gantner-- Part I. Was There a Carolingian Italy?:
• 3. Talking about the Carolingians in eighth- and ninth-century Italy Thomas F. X. Noble--
• 4. The name of the kingdom Paolo Delogu--
• 5. Was there a Carolingian Italy? Politics, institutions and book culture Francois Bougard-- Part II. Organizing Italy:
• 6. The government of a peripheral area: the Carolingians and north-eastern Italy Stefano Gasparri--
• 7. Vassals without feudalism in Carolingian Italy Giuseppe Albertoni--
• 8. Shaping a kingdom: the sees of Parma and Arezzo between the reigns of Louis II and Berengar Igor Santos Salazar-- Part III. Carolingian Rulers:
• 9. Staying Lombard while becoming Carolingian? Italy under King Pippin Marco Stoffella--
• 10. Carolingian fathers and sons in Italy: Lothar I and Louis II's successful partnership Elina Screen--
• 11. A king in training? Louis II of Italy and his expedition to Rome in 844 Clemens Gantner-- Part IV. Cities, Courts and Carolingians:
• 12. A Byzantine cuckoo in the Frankish nest? The Exarchate of Ravenna and the Kingdom of Italy in the long ninth century Tom Brown--
• 13. Urbanism as politics in ninth-century Italy Caroline Goodson--
• 14. Rome and the others: saints, relics and hagiography in Carolingian north-eastern Italy Francesco Veronese--
• 15. Between the palace, the school and the forum: rhetoric and court culture in late Lombard and Carolingian Italy Giorgia Vocino-- Bibliography.
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After Charlemagne's death in 814, Italy was ruled by a succession of kings and emperors, all of whom could claim some relation to the Carolingians, some via the female line of succession. This study offers new perspectives on the fascinating but neglected period of Italy in the ninth century and the impact of Carolingian culture. Bringing together some of the foremost scholars on early medieval Italy, After Charlemagne offers the first comprehensive overview of the period, and also presents new research on Italian politics, culture, society and economy, from the death of Charlemagne to the assassination of Berengar I in 924. Revealing Italy as a multifaceted peninsula, the authors address the governance and expansion of Carolingian Italy, examining relations with the other Carolingian kingdoms, as well as those with the Italian South, the Papacy and the Byzantine Empire. Exploring topics on a regional and local level as well as presenting a 'big picture' of the Italian or Lombard kingdom, this volume provides new and exciting answers to the central question: How Carolingian was 'Carolingian Italy'?
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Institutional Agents
• Chapter 2. Institutional Spaces
• Chapter 3. Productive Labour
• Chapter 4. Foodways
• Chapter 5. Material Routines
• Chapter 6. Global Intersections
• Conclusion
• Bibliography Index.
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Over the course of four centuries, the island of Malta underwent several significant political transformations, including its roles as a Catholic bastion under the Knights of St. John between 1530 and 1798, and as a British maritime hub in the nineteenth century. This innovative study draws on both archival evidence and archeological findings to compare slavery and coerced labor, resource control, globalization, and other historical phenomena in Malta under the two regimes: one feudal, the other colonial. Spanning conventional divides between the early and late modern eras, Russell Palmer offers here a rich analysis of a Mediterranean island against a background of immense European and global change.
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• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Introduction by Aaron W. Irvin 1
• 1. The Beauty of the Oikumene Has Two Edges: Nurturing Roman Imperialism in the "Glocalizing" Traditions of the East by Ljuben Tevdovski
• 2. Triggered identity: the use of Macedonian ethnicity by Blaundos in confrontation with the Roman Empire by Luca Mazzini
• 3. The population of Siscia in the light of epigraphy by Ivan Radman-Livaja
• 4. Roman presence in Athens in light of the epigraphic evidence evidence by Aleksandar Simic
• 5. Global and Local in the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods in Marathon: the construction of a Cultural Identity in Roman Greece by Dafni Maikidou-Poutrino
• 6. Consciousness of Connectivity: Roman temples in southern Syria by Francesca Mazzilli
• 7. Macedonian, Greek, or Egyptian? Navigating the Royal Additive Identities of Ptolemy I Soter and Ptolemy II Philadelphus by Rachel J. Mittelman
• 8. Being Mithraist: Embracing 'Otherness' in the Roman Cultural Milieu by Nina Mazhjoo
• 9. "There are always two sides to every story": Roman rule, cultural continuities and ethnic identity in southern Hispania by Francisco Machuca Prieto
• 10. Unlocking ritual performances in the Romano-British countryside: How small finds and structured deposits enrich our understanding of provincial priesthoods by Alessandra Esposito
• 11. Purification Through Puppies: Dog Symbolism and Sacrifice in the Mediterranean World by Aaron W. Irvin and Jason Lundock
• 12. Communities at the Edges of the Roman World: The Perception of Identity in the Roman Iron Age Barbaricum by Kala Drewniak
• 13. Deconstructing "Balkan Latin" by Dragana Kun?er
• 14. The importance of being earnest: Why precise language matters by Kaja Stemberger Flegar
• 15. The dictatorship of identity: Soviet scholarship and Roman imperialism by Anton Baryshnikov.
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A timely and academically-significant contribution to scholarship on community, identity, and globalization in the Roman and Hellenistic worlds Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World examines the construction of personal and communal identities in the ancient world, exploring how globalism, multi-culturalism, and other macro events influenced micro identities throughout the Hellenistic and Roman empires. This innovative volume discusses where contact and the sharing of ideas was occurring in the time period, and applies modern theories based on networks and communication to historical and archaeological data. A new generation of international scholars challenge traditional views of Classical history and offer original perspectives on the impact globalizing trends had on localized areas-insights that resonate with similar issues today. This singular resource presents a broad, multi-national view rarely found in western collected volumes, including Serbian, Macedonian, and Russian scholarship on the Roman Empire, as well as on Roman and Hellenistic archaeological sites in Eastern Europe. Topics include Egyptian identity in the Hellenistic world, cultural identity in Roman Greece, Romanization in Slovenia, Balkan Latin, the provincial organization of cults in Roman Britain, and Soviet studies of Roman Empire and imperialism. Serving as a synthesis of contemporary scholarship on the wider topic of identity and community, this volume: Provides an expansive materialist approach to the topic of globalization in the Roman world Examines ethnicity in the Roman empire from the viewpoint of minority populations Offers several views of metascholarship, a growing sub-discipline that compares ancient material to modern scholarship Covers a range of themes, time periods, and geographic areas not included in most western publications Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and graduate students examining identity and ethnicity in the ancient world, as well as for those working in multiple fields of study, from Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman historians, to the study of ethnicity, identity, and globalizing trends in time. .
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• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors
• Introduction Heather Hayton
• Part 1: The City and Commune
• 1 Siena: the City and its State Throughout Time Mario Ascheri
• 2 The Significance of Montaperti Bradley R. Franco
• 3 "Per queste cose ognuno sta in santa pace et in concordia": Understanding Urban Space in Renaissance Siena Fabrizio Nevola
• 4 Saint Catherine and Siena Jane Tylus
• Part 2: Art and Religion
• 5 "Beata quella citta della sua patria!". Siena's Religious Culture and Carthusian Monasticism Demetrio S. Yocum
• 6 The Marian Altarpieces of Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti Sheri F. Shaneyfelt
• 7 The Discussion and Transmission of Reformed Religious Beliefs in Early-Modern Siena Andrea Beth Wenz
• 8 Bernardino of Siena in the History and Culture of the City of L'Aquila Santa Casciani
• Part 3: Culture and Society
• 9 Public Health and Hospitals in Medieval Siena before the Black Death Anna M. Peterson
• 10 "Sebben che siamo donne ...": Sienese Women in the Troubled Years at the End of the Republic (c.1500-60) Elena Brizio
• 11 "Sotto un Lauro in corona": Literate Women in 16th-Century Siena Konrad Eisenbichler
• 12 "An Occasion to Banish Melancholy": Musical Culture in Early Modern Siena Colleen Reardon
• Epilogue: The Foundations of Contemporary Siena The "Gothic Queen": the Myth of Siena in the 19th and 20th Centuries Saverio Luigi Battente
• Illustrations Bibliography Index.
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A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena presents chapters by prominent scholars on the powerful commune that birthed a pope, sheltered saints, built banking institutions that have thrived for nearly 1000 years, and nurtured vibrant communities of artists and intellectuals. This multi-disciplinary book, edited by Santa Casciani and Heather Richardson Hayton, redresses scholarly imbalances of the past by introducing early period Siena to a wider audience. Focusing mostly on the 12th to 16th centuries, each chapter explores how the Sienese crafted a distinctive civic identity that remains intact still. Modern readers will find Siena's responses to plague, political factionalism, and aggression from powerful neighbours particularly relevant. Contributors are: Mario Ascheri, Saverio Luigi Battente, Elena Brizio, Santa Casciani, Konrad Eisenbichler, Bradley Franco, Fabrizio Nevola, Anna Peterson, Colleen Reardon, Sheri Shaneyfelt, Jane Tylus, Andrea Beth Wenz, Demetrio Yocum.
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• Part I. Politics: The temporality of the state
• Urban construction and social control as capture
• Delegitimizing the Sforza
• Part II. Property: Land and ownership
• Protecting and suing
• Document destruction and fraud
• Part III. People: Elite displacements
• Holy sovereignties
• The people.

"In 1499, Milan was an independent state with a stable government. But over the next thirty years, it descended into chaos amid the Italian Wars. John Gagné details Milan's social and political breakdown. The Renaissance may have been the cradle of the modern nation-state, but it was also a time when sophisticated sovereigns collapsed"-- Provided by publisher.

• Les constructions morales de l'histoire auguste
• Le prisme moral de l'histoire auguste
• Considérations taxinomiques
• Le reflet de la mort des tyrans
• La poétique du contraste
• La place des vices et des vertus
• Vices et vertus
• La culture littéraire des empereurs, miroir de leurs vices et de leurs vertus
• Le motif de la cruauté innée
• Les manifestations de la cruauté des tyrans
• Trois exemples de portraits ambivalents d'empereurs
• Hadrien
• Septime Sévère
• Aurélien -
• Figures, thèmes et motifs emblématiques de la rhétorique du blâme
• La galerie des personnages de l'histoire auguste
• Le princeps clausus
• Le rôle des délateurs
• Les tyrannicides
• La fascination des mauvais princes pour l'orient
• Le délire mystique
• Les cultes orientaux
• La proskynèse
• Le goût du luxe
• Le motif de la transgression de la nature
• L'inceste et le parricide
• Trois spécificités de l'écriture biographique ?
• Le recours à la physiognomonie
• Le rôle du discours direct
• L'importance du crime de lèse-majesté
• Procédés de la rhétorique du blâme et enjeux du texte
• Cibles majeures de la critique
• Le cas particulier de l'usurpation
• Le Principat : un système vicié par essence ?
• La Vie de Didius Julianus : une illustration de la malédiction du Principat ?
• Articulations entre poétique et rhétorique
• L'Histoire Auguste : une oeuvre de fiction ?
• Les procédés stylistiques
• La portée des procédés stylistiques
• Deux figures maîtresses : la répétition et l'ironie
• Les paradoxes de l'Histoire Auguste.

"Le recueil de trente biographies impériales connu sous le titre d'Histoire Auguste constitue l'un des textes les plus énigmatiques de la littérature latine tardive. Son auteur, qui a falsifié à la fois son identité et la date de rédaction du texte, déforme la vérité historique en recourant à la fiction romanesque. Ce mémoire se propose d'étudier les procédés épidictiques qu'il mobilise pour construire un discours dépréciatif contre différentes cibles. Derrière le blâme des mauvais princes et la critique de la dérive despotique du Principat, le rédacteur dessine les contours d'une parodie du métier d'historien et livre, sur un plan philosophique, sa propre conception de la vérité en histoire."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Rome and Parthia: conflict and diplomacy from Sulla to Caracalla
• 3. Conflict and diplomacy between Rome and Persia from Ardashir to Philip I
• 4. Persian triumph, Roman defeat
• 5. The last years of the reign of Shapur I to the Persian invasion of Carus
• 6. The relationship between Rome and Persia during the reigns of Diocletian, Bahram II and Narseh
• 7. Rome and Persia during the reigns of Constantine and Shapur II
• 8. Conflict and diplomacy between Rome and Persia under Constantius II and Shapur II
• 9. The Persian invasion of the emperor Julian and its aftermath
• 10. Conclusion.
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This book focuses on conflict, diplomacy and religion as factors in the relationship between Rome and Sasanian Persia in the third and fourth centuries AD. During this period, military conflict between Rome and Sasanian Persia was at a level and depth not seen mostly during the Parthian period. At the same time, contact between the two empires increased markedly and contributed in part to an increased level of conflict. Edwell examines both war and peace - diplomacy, trade and religious contact - as the means through which these two powers competed, and by which they sought to gain, maintain and develop control of territories and peoples who were the source of dispute between the two empires. The volume also analyses internal factors in both empires that influenced conflict and competition between them, while the roles of regional powers such as the Armenians, Palmyrenes and Arabs in conflict and contact between the two "super powers" receive special attention. Using a broad array of sources, this book gives special attention to the numismatic evidence as it has tended to be overshadowed in modern studies by the literary and epigraphic sources. This is the first monograph in English to undertake an in-depth and critical analysis of competition and contact between Rome and the early Sasanians in the Near East in the third and fourth centuries AD using literary, archaeological, numismatic and epigraphic evidence, and one which includes the complete range of mechanisms by which the two powers competed. It is an invaluable study for anyone working on Rome, Persia and the wider Near East in Late Antiquity.
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• Pompey's reorganisation of the Near East, 66-63 BC
• Parthia
• Ptolemaic Kingdom
• Judaea
• Princedom of Chalcis and the Emisenoi
• Parthia
• Ptolemaic Kingdom
• Judaea
• Princedom of Chalcis
• Nabataea
• Armenia
• Media Atropatene
• Commagene
• Conduct of Near Eastern rulers towards Rome
• Rome's conduct towards Near Eastern kingdoms and principalities.

"The study presents a critical analysis of the political relations between Rome and Near Eastern kingdoms and principalities during the age of civil war from the death of Julius Caesar in 44 to Mark Antony's defeat at Actium in 31 BC. By examining each bilateral relationship separately, it argues that those relations were marked by a large degree of continuity with earlier periods. Circumstances connected to the civil war had only a limited impact on the interstate conduct of the period despite the effects that the strife had on Rome's domestic politics and the res publica. The ever-present rival Parthia and its external policies were more influential in steering the relations between Rome and Near Eastern powers"-- Provided by publisher.

• From urban space to urban history - an introduction Miko Flohr
• PART I. EXPERIENCING THE CITY
• Political space and the experience of citizenship in the city of Rome: architecture and interpellation
• Amy Russell
• Emotion and the city: the example of Pompeii
• Annette Haug
• Hilltops, heat, and precipitation: Roman urban life and the natural environment
• Miko Flohr
• PART II. COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND URBAN SPACE
• Topographical permeability and the dynamics of public space in Roman Minturnae
• Patric-Alexander Kreuz
• Antique statuary and urban identity in Roman Greece
• Christopher P. Dickenson
• Women in the forum: the cases of Italy and Roman North Africa
• Cristina Murer
• Religion in the urban landscape: the special case of Rome
• Marlis Arnhold
• PART III. COMMERCE AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
• Sacred transactions: religion and markets in Roman urbanism
• Elizabeth Fentress
• Fora and commerce in Roman Italy
• Miko Flohr
• The archaeology of urban workshops in the Roman Maghreb
• Touatia Amraoui
• The ports of Roman Lycia: urbanism, networks, and hierarchies
• Candace M. Rice
• PART IV. URBAN LIFE BEYOND THE CITY WALLS
• Urban borderscapes in Roman Italy: arenas for social, political and cultural interaction
• Saskia Stevens
• The tabernae outside Porta Ercolano in Pompeii and their context
• Sandra Zanella
• Roman roads as an indicator of urban life: the Via Appia near Rome
• Stephan T.A.M. Mols and Eric Moormann.
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This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE and the fi rst centuries CE, integrating debates about Roman urban space with discourse on Roman urban history. The contributions explore how these cities developed landscapes full of civic memory and ritual, saw commercial priorities transforming the urban environment, and began to expand signifi cantly beyond their wall circuits. These interrelated developments not only changed how cities looked and could be experienced, but they also affected the functioning of the urban community and together contributed to keeping increasingly complex urban communities socially cohesive. By focusing on the transformation of urban landscapes in the Late Republican and Imperial periods, the volume adds a new, explicitly historical angle to current debates about urban space in Roman studies. Confronting archaeological and historical approaches, the volume presents developments in Italy, Africa, Greece, and Asia Minor, thus significantly broadening the geographical scope of the discussion and offering novel theoretical perspectives alongside well- documented, thematic case studies. Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World will be of interest to anyone working on Roman urbanism or Roman history in the Late Republic and early Empire.
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• Acknowledgements Part I: Crisis: Concepts & Ideology 1) Introduction: What is a Crisis? Framing versus Experience Jacqueline Klooster (University of Groningen, Netherlands) and Inger Kuin (Dartmouth College, USA)
• 2) (Not) talkin' bout a revolution: Managing constitutional crisis in Athenian political thought Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge, UK) 3) Security: calming the soul political in the wake of civil war Michele Lowrie (University of Chicago, USA) Part II: Crisis Traumas & Recovery: Greece 4) Tragedies of War in Duris and Phylarchus: social memory and experiential history Lisa Hau (Glasgow University, UK) 5) Changes of Fortune: Polybius and the Transformation of Greece Andrew Erskine (Edinburgh University, UK) Part III: Crisis Traumas & Recovery: Rome 6) Coping With Crisis: Sulla's Civil War and Roman Cultural Identity Alexandra Eckert (Oldenburg University, Germany) 7) Alternative Futures in Lucan's Bellum Civile: Imagining Aftermaths of Civil War Annemarie Ambuhl (Mainz University, Germany) Part IV: Resolving Civil War 8) Caesar and the Crisis of Corfinium Luca Grillo (University of North Carolina, USA) 9) Young Caesar and the Termination of Civil War (31-27 BCE) Carsten Hjort Lange (Aalborg University, Denmark) 10) Agrippa's odd Speech in Cassius Dio's Roman History Mathieu de Bakker (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Part IV: Civil War & the Family 11) The Fate of the Lepidani: Civil War and Family History in First Century BCE Rome Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University, USA) 12) The Roman Family as Institution and Metaphor After the Civil Wars Andrew Gallia (University of Minnesota, USA) Notes Bibliography Index.
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Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event. This volume aims to explore how such crises were remembered in the ancient world, and how communities reconstituted themselves after a crisis. Can crises serve as catalysts for innovation or change, and how does this work? What do crises reveal about the 'normality' against which they are defined and framed? People living in post-crisis societies have no choice but to adapt to the changes caused by crisis. Such adaptation entails the question of how the relationship between the pre-crisis situation and the new status quo is constructed, and by whom. Due to the reduced possibility of using the immediate past, which is tainted by conflict and bad memories, it may involve revisions of historical narratives about communal pasts and identities, through the selection of new 'anchors', and sometimes even a discarding of the old ones. Crises affect all areas of life, and crisis recovery likewise spans different spheres. This volume finds traces of such recovery strategies in texts as well as visual representations; in literary as well as in documentary texts; in official ideology as much as in subaltern responses. The contributors bring together the diverse testimonies for such ways of coping that have survived from antiquity.
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• 1. Nationality, Identity and Domicile
• 2. The Burghersh Years, 1814-1830
• 3. Untroubled Growth, 1830-1839
• 4. Public Calm and Private Troubles, 1839-1846
• 5. John Bull at Play
• 6. John Bull at Prayer
• 7. A Widow in Exile
• 8. The Long Revolution, 1846-1849
• 9. The Austrian Occupation to 1853
• 10. Protestants in Stormy Waters
• 11. Indian Summer, 1854-1858
• 12. The Medicine Men
• 13. Men of Straw and Men of Iron
• 14. The Service Sector
• 15. Departures and Survivors, 1858-1860.
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This book gives a fuller picture than has hitherto been attempted of the variety of Britons who became residents of Florence between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the absorption of Tuscany into the kingdom of Italy. Many of them were leisured, and some aristocratic; a few were writers or artists; the British clergy and physicians who ministered to them were gentlemen. Many others were shopkeepers, merchants and even engineers. Some achieved a more profound knowledge of the country (and its language) than others, but all were affected to some degree by the momentous events which led to Italian unification.
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