Roman cadastres, land registers and instrumentum venditionis: The elements of modern land registries by Sič Magdolna

“…It is true that during the Roman history registration was not a necessary condition of acquiring ownership, as was the case in the German system of land registers, neither did Roman law contain all the principles of modern land registers. …”
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De l’usage politique et social du rituel à Rome : le spectacle des rites dans l’Ab Vrbe condita de Tite-Live by Marine Miquel

“…Through this « monument » of Roman history, rituals are all the more acuitely depicted for they belong to a society in which spectacle is an essential aspect of social and political life. …”
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Peuple et république à l’aube de l’humanisme : sur l’inconscient politique de Leonardo Bruni by E. Igor Mineo

“…At the same time, in a dialogue with Claudia Moatti in particular, we try to ascertain how, with which tools, some research on Roman history helps us grasp the metamorphoses of the ‘people’ in a much later period.…”
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Septímio Severo e a Consecratio de Pertinax: rituais de morte e poder Septimius Severus and the Pertinaces' Consecratio: death and power rithuals by Ana Teresa Marques Gonçalves

“…That ceremony is described in detail in Dio Cassius' work, Roman History.…”
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ROMAN SUCCESSION AND THE MAKING OF CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS: EXAMPLIFIED BY ST. IDISORE OF SEVILLE’S WRITINGS (“HISTORIA DE REGIBUS GOTHORUM, VANDALORUM ET SUEVORUM”) by Arman S. Abramyan

“…Isidore&rsquo;s account of Visigothic and Roman history.<br />Methodology. Textual analysis of the works of St. …”
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Stories from the Frontier: Linking Past and Present at Vindolanda through Digital Gameplay by Claire Stocks, Barbara Birley, Rob Collins

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I, Claudius (1976) vs Rome (2005), or Ancient Rome revisited by television by Isabelle Roblin

“…This conception of Roman history is also built into Rome’s structure, as the lives of two common soldiers are intertwined with major historical events and characters, giving a fresh perspective on well-known occurrences. …”
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Les « discours » de Veturia, Valeria et Hersilia by Emmanuelle Valette

“…The exemplary value of this intervention creates a kind of “tradition of the exception”, which appears characteristic of the feminine action in Roman history.…”
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Parrhesia in Cassius Dio by Mallan, C

“…The story of how parrhêsia (“freedom of speech” or “frank speech”) went from a political liberty under the Republic to an indulgence under the Principate is one of the underexplored themes of the Late Republican and Imperial books of Dio’s Roman History. The theme was an old one as Tacitus and others had discussed the decline of libertas and eloquentia following the triumph of Augustus. …”

ALTERNATIVES TO KINSHIP? TETRARCHS AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF REPRESENTING NON-DYNASTIC RULE by Olivier Hekster

“…<span lang="EN-GB">Throughout Roman history, members of the imperial family featured regularly in central coinage, on reliefs and statues, and in inscriptions – both in Rome and the provinces. …”
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Le péritexte racinien – un espace foncièrement intertextuel - Etude sur la préface de la Thébaïde - by Nicoleta Loredana MOROŞAN

“…Mythology, Greek and Roman history will become the two seams mined by writers such as Racine or Corneille. …”
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The Eight Faces of Roman Imperialism. Review of Revell, L. (2009). Roman Imperialism and Local Identities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press by Maxim Valerievich Shisterov

“…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 Roman Empire in modern foreign historiography. …”
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Hrabanus Maurus’ Post-Patristic Renovation of 1 Maccabees 1:1–8 by Djurslev Christian Thrue

“…I support this argument by focusing on Hrabanus’ recourse to Latin sources, primarily the late antique authors Jerome, Orosius, and Justin, an epitomist of Roman history. I find that Hrabanus challenged Jerome’s interpretations, neutralized much of Orosius’ negative appraisal of Alexander, and amplified the laudatory passages of Justin, which generated a new image of the ancient king. …”
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Paulo Orósio e o providencialismo no marco do Império Romano by Maria Sonsoles Guerras

“…The second part contains an analysis of some facts from Roman history which are, in the point of view of the author of the "Seven Books of History", a clear demonstration of how Providence has made use of the Roman World to start a new era: Christ is born during August’s time, therefore these two events will be forever joint and the "Pax Romana" will be the very beginning of the "Pax Christi". …”
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Ancient Drama and Reception of Antiquity in the Theatre and Drama of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) by Bernd Seidensticker

“…Two important dramatists and three examples of plays are presented and discussed: an adaptation of an Aristophanic comedy (Peter Hack’s adaptation of Aristophanes’ Peace at the Deutsche Theater in Berlin in 1962), a play based on a Sophoclean tragedy (Heiner Müller’s Philoktet, published in 1965, staged only in 1977), and a short didactic play (Lehrstück) based on Roman history (Heiner Müller’s Der Horatier, written in 1968, staged in 1973 in Hamburg in West Germany, and in the GDR only in 1988). …”
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Roman Gold Washing as Described by Pliny the Elder by Brigitte Cech, Heimo Urban

“…The following people are involved in the project: Project manager and archaeology: Brigitte Cech (independent researcher, Vienna), survey and cartography: Frank Stremke (Bremen), Roman history: Andras Hofeneder (University of Vienna), geophysical prospection: Robert Scholger (Mining University, Leoben), geology: Günther Weixelberger (Pitten), analysis of gold: Simone Elmer, Frank Melcher (Mining University, Leoben), laser ablation of gold samples: Nicole Lockhoff (Curt-Engelhorn-Centre of Archaeometry, Mainz), hydraulic engineering: Martin Fuchs (Firma Afry, Vienna), pollen analysis: Klaus Oeggl (University of Innsbruck), mapping of leats: Thomas Fleck, Nadine Riegler, Markus Foidl (Weibnitz), gold washing/panning: Heimo Urban (Graz), documentary film: Rick Spurway (Sopron). …”
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Dendrochronological evidence for long-distance timber trading in the Roman Empire. by Mauro Bernabei, Jarno Bontadi, Rossella Rea, Ulf Büntgen, Willy Tegel

“…An important question for our understanding of Roman history is how the Empire's economy was structured, and how long-distance trading within and between its provinces was organised and achieved. …”
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE SOCIAL POSITION OF CITIZENS IN ANCIENT ROME by Nenad Stefanović

“…From this premise, they built the foundations of their rights as well as their social, legal and political positions. In theory, Roman history is chronologically divided into four periods: The period of Kings, The period of the Republic, the Principate and the Dominate. …”
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,Lernen aus Niederlagen‘ und ,Schwächediskurse‘? Oder doch nur „aut vincere aut emori“? Bemerkungen zum komplexen Umgang Roms mit militärischen Niederlagen by Oliver Stoll

“… <p> This article examines defeats and losses as phenomena of an ‘expanded military history’ of Roman History from the Republic to the Principate. It adopts a cultural historical perspective of the military historical phenomenon. …”
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THEORY OF ITALIAN NATURAL BOUNDARY, BETWEEN «MISTAKES» AND AUGUSTAN ECHOES by Michele Pigliucci

“…Among the reasons in support of this issue, there was, for the western boundary, the Roman history of the Giulia region – revealed by Latin etymology of toponyms – since Augustus incorporated it in X Regio Venetia et Histria, that is to say in Italian jurisdiction. …”
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