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La production rurale dans la phase finale du royaume de la Grande Arménie : le témoignage de Moïse de Khorène
No full textIn the XVth chapter of his monograph Armenia in the Period of Justinian, Nikolaj Adontz traced a short but important outline of the problems of land tenure in the kingdom of Greater Armenia. Adontz eventually praised the documentary value of the History of Armenia (Patmut'iwn Hayoc') by Movsēs Xorenats'i, a historian who nowadays is considered with suspicion. In his historiographical work, he claims that the Arsacid dynasty founded the basis of the society of the kingdom of Greater Armenia, including the organization of landed property. Accordingly, Xorenats'i is, to a certain extent, more sensitive to the Realien than the other contemporary Armenian historiographers, who prefer to concentrate on social relations rather than considering the material and administrative aspects of rural economy
428, une année ordinaire à la fin de l'Empire romain. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée
No full text428 est une année sans presque autre événement mémorable que la chute du royaume d’Arménie, perdu aux confins d’un Empire romain déclinant. Pourtant, cette année ordinaire est loin d’être une année sans histoire : rien n’est fait, rien n’est joué, tout est en train de se faire. Le paganisme s’étiole avec panache, plusieurs fonctionnaires civils et beaucoup de commandants militaires ont des noms qui quelques années auparavant auraient semblé barbares. Les temps changent, imperceptiblement : le crépuscule de l’Antiquité devient l’aube du Moyen Âge.
Giusto Traina propose un tour du monde romain en 365 jours, où le lecteur découvre villes, palais, monastères, et surtout, à côté des grands noms comme Saint Augustin, Théodose II, ou le roi des Vandales Genséric, les figures peu banales et hautes en couleur du Sarrasin al-Mundhir, du Copte Chenouté ou encore de l’extraordinaire Galla Placidia, qui fut successivement épouse d’un roi barbare, impératrice d’Occident, et enfin reine mère du jeune Valentinien III
Le sconfitte dei romani
No full textIn Roman culture, military defeats are recorded as negative exempla, especially epoch-making defeats such as the river Allia, Cannae, Carrhae or Teutoburg. This depends on several factors. Originally, the responsibility of military victories or shortcomings was not attributed to the single commander, but as a deed concerning the whole community. Moreover, the dates of major defeats were included in the calendar as dies nefasti and, in some particular cases (as the Allia and Cannae) as dies vitiosi. With the Principate, this tradition begins to change. The transformation can be seen by the end of Augustan age, with the elaboration of a légende noire of unlucky commanders like Crassus and Quinctilius Varus. © 2010 Vita e Pensiero / Pubblicazioni dell'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Recensione di Chiara D'Aloja, "L'idea di egalitarismo nella tarda repubblica romana (Bari 2013)"
No full textReview of "Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory" by Long T. Bui
No full text428 AD: An ordinary year at the end of the Roman Empire
No full textThis is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the Byzantine east, and as power shifts from Rome to Constantinople. Taking readers on a journey through the region, Giusto Traina describes the empires' people, places, and events in all their simultaneous richness and variety. The result is an original snapshot of a fraying Roman world on the edge of the medieval era. The result is an original snapshot of a fraying Roman world on the edge of the medieval era. Readers meet many important figures, including the Roman general Flavius Dionysius as he encounters a delegation from Persia after the Sassanids annex Armenia; the Christian ascetic Simeon Stylites as he stands and preaches atop his column near Antioch; the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II as he prepares to commission his legal code; and Genseric as he is elected king of the Vandals and begins to turn his people into a formidable power. We are also introduced to Pulcheria, the powerful sister of Theodosius, and Galla Placidia, the queen mother of the western empire, as well as Augustine, Pope Celestine I, and nine-year-old Roman emperor Valentinian III. Full of telling details, 428 AD illustrates the uneven march of history. As the west unravels, the east remains intact. As Christianity spreads, pagan ideas and schools persist. And, despite the presence of the forces that will eventually tear the classical world apart, Rome remains at the center, exerting a powerful unifying force over disparate peoples stretched across the Mediterranean. © 2009 by Princeton University Press. All Rights Reserved
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