imagination of Roman elites regarding poverty in their society -- how it was defined, how traditional and accepted images of poverty were deployed for rhetorical effect, and in what way elite attitudes toward poverty evolved over the course of the first century and a half under the Empire. It...
Poverty in the Roman World: Portraying the poor: descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the late Roman empire ROP Finn 被引量: 0发表: 2006年 Portraying Perpetrators; The Validity of Offender Descriptions by Witnesses Using archival data from official police records, we assessed how ...
Churches , Ernest Troeltsch sharply criticises Karl Kautsky, the leading Marxist theorist of the German Social Democratic Party, for presenting Christianity as a communistic movement which arose out of the social conditions of the Roman Empire as a reaction against the poverty and misery of the ...
This social history of earliest Christianity radically re-evaluates both the methods and models of other studies. Justin Meggitt draws on the most recent research in classical studies on the economy and society of the Roman Empire. He examines the economic experiences of the Pauline churches, and ...
the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: China has built an authoritarian growth machine....
Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico Original and compelling, Laura Briggs'sReproducing Empireshows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and ... AM Cervantesrodríguez - 《Journal of American Culture》 被引...
THE POOR YE HAVE ALWAYS WITH YOU P. Brown: Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire. The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures . Pp. ix + 160. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2002. Paper, $15.95. ISBN: 1-58465-146-6 (1-58465-145-8 hbk) ...
At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Britain had a population problem. The previous one-hundred years had seen it more thantreble, from 11 million in 1801 to 37 million in 1901. The wealth and power of Britain’s Empire belied the poverty that lay at its heart. The poor subsisted...
Earlier moves towards inclusive institutions resulting from conáict and institutional driftó Roman Republic, Venice, but ultimately reversed. Crucial turning point: the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688. The Glorious Revolution brought much more inclusive, pluralistic political institutions which then...
A Stronger Vision for Roman Domination in Graphs Based on the history that the Emperor Constantine decreed that any undefended place (with no legions) of the Roman Empire must be protected by a "stronger"... MP Alvarez-Ruiz,IG Yero,T Mediavilla-Gradolph,... 被引量: 0发表: 2015年 ...