List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Contributors -- Map of the Roman Empire in the fourth century -- Introduction: The cloak of power : dressing and undressing the King / Johannes Wienand -- Part one. Administering the empire -- Domesticating the Senatorial élite : unive…
"This volume reappraises the wide-ranging and lasting transformation of the Roman monarchy between the Principate and Late Antiquity. The focus of the book will lie on the period from Diocletian to Theodosius I (284-395) and thus on a major developmental phase in the history of …
Conquest on the margins of the international state system cannot be adequately explained by military or technological superiority alone, this book claims, examining British conquest in Southern Africa, the Niger delta, and India in the 19th century as examples.
In this incisive look at early modern views of party politics, Harvey C. Mansfield examines the pamphlet war between Edmund Burke and the followers of Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke during the mid-eighteenth century. In response to works by Bolingbroke published post…
by Butler, Judith, Lorey, Isabell, Lorey, Isabell
fromFutures
"After years of the welfare state, the rise of technology, combined with neoliberal governmental apparatuses, has established a new society of the precarious. In this new way of the world, productivity is not just connected to labor in the traditional sense of work hours, but mo…
by Butler, Judith, Lorey, Isabell, Lorey, Isabell
fromVerso Futures
"After years of the welfare state, the rise of technology, combined with neoliberal governmental apparatuses, has established a new society of the precarious. In this new way of the world, productivity is not just connected to labor in the traditional sense of work hours, but mo…
by Butler, Judith, Lorey, Isabell, Lorey, Isabell
fromFutures
"After years of the welfare state, the rise of technology, combined with neoliberal governmental apparatuses, has established a new society of the precarious. In this new way of the world, productivity is not just connected to labor in the traditional sense of work hours, but mo…
London is in ruins, in the hands of two warring families of ganglords, the Volsons and the Conors. To cement a truce between the two families, Val Volson offers Conor the hand of his 14 year old daughter, Signy. The wedding feast is disrupted by the dramatic coming to life of a …
PART ONE. RITUALS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ROMAN WORLD -- Imperial birthday rituals in late antiquity / Maria Kantirea -- Phthonos : a pagan relic in Byzantine imperial acclamations? / Martin Hinterberger -- Ritualized encounters : late Roman diplomacy and the Barbarians, f…
"Publicly performed rituals and ceremonies form an essential part of medieval political practice and court culture. This applies not only to western feudal societies, but also to the linguistically and culturally highly diversified environment of Byzantium and the Mediterranean …
