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BOOK: Benjamin SCHONTHAL, Courts, Constitutions and Karma. Buddhism, Law and the Practices of Legal Pluralism in Sri Lanka [Cambridge Studies in Law & Society, eds. Mark FATHI MASSOUD & Jens MEIERHENRICH] (Cambridge: CUP, 2026)

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Abstract:

Although rarely acknowledged, Buddhist monastics are among the most active lawmakers and jurists in Asia, operating sophisticated networks of courts and constitutions while also navigating—and shaping—secular legal systems. This book provides the first in-depth study of Buddhist monastic law and its entanglements with state law in Sri Lanka from 1800 to the present. Rather than a top-down account of colliding legal orders, Schonthal draws on nearly a decade of archival, ethnographic and empirical research to document the ways that Buddhist monks, colonial officials and contemporary lawmakers reconcile the laws of the Buddha and the laws of the land using practices of legal pluralism. Comparative in outlook and accessible in style, this book not only offers a portrait of Buddhist monastic law in action, it also yields new insights into how societies manage multi-legality and why legal pluralism leads to conflict in some settings and to compromise in others.

Table of contents:

1. Monastic law, state law and the plurality of legal pluralism in Sri Lanka
Part I:
2. The unity and diversity of Buddhist monastic law
3. Jurisdictionalising Buddhism in colonial Ceylon
4. Practising legal pluralism in the monastery
Part II:
5. Like and unlike 'Law': making a monastic judiciary
6. Law's Karmas: Nirvana, rebirth and the cosmological consequences of monastic law
Part III:
7. Legalising' monastic law: the politics of legal recognition in post-colonial Sri Lanka
8. Constitutionalising Vinaya
Conclusion: pluralising legal pluralism
Glossary
References.

On the author:

Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago, New Zealand

(source: Legal History Blog)

JOURNAL: Comparative Legal History XIV (2026), nr. 1 (Jun)

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FROM THE EDITORIAL (David Schorr & Agustín Parise)

[...] As is appropriate for this spring season, Issue 1 of Volume 14 of Comparative Legal History is marked by the welcome arrival of several new developments.

We would first like to highlight a new feature in the journal – a review of a classic work of comparative legal history, written from the perspective of today’s scholarship. To kick off this new format, James Whitman reviews Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws, a classic in the field if there ever was one. We plan for reviews of classics to be a recurring feature of the journal, and welcome suggestions from our readers for classic works that should be considered for review in our journal.

Another novelty is that we start off Issue 1 of Volume 14 with an invited essay, by comparative law scholar Ralf Michaels. The author gives us a breathtakingly wide-ranging and erudite appraisal of new literature on comparative law, examining the place of legal history in the field of comparative law, while at the same time demonstrating the importance of comparative law scholarship for comparative legal historians. We hope to return to this theme in the sixth session of the Dialogues in Comparative Legal History, to be held online later this year.

With the support of Taylor & Francis, we are also proud to inaugurate two technical features that we think will add to the journal. First, we will now publish contributions to the journal online on a rolling basis, without waiting for them to be collected into issues according to our regular publication schedule. Second, we are encouraging authors to include relevant images in their contributions. We welcome proposals for contributions that take advantage of the visual medium and for new formats are centred on it.

New sprouts ultimately rely on good roots, and Issue 1 of Volume 14 continues the journal’s tradition of presenting an assortment of articles involving a wide variety of legal traditions and their interactions. Henrik-Riko Held’s article shows how a local, vernacular legal culture and the learned ius commune interacted in surprising ways in the Venetian Empire; Hoàng Thảo Anh’s article looks at the private international law of the Chinese and Vietnamese Empires; Lukasz Korporowicz surveys the reception of William Blackstone in Polish legal literature; and Ann Mumford investigates what legal rejection – the refusal of a potential legal transplant – can teach us about the legal philosophies of judges and scholars.

Issue 1 of Volume 14 is enriched with 13 additional book reviews on an expansive range of topics, including James Sheehan’s review of two books on the history of sovereignty; Gary Jacobsohn’s comparative look at debates on ‘originalism’ in the USA; William Butler’s review of a Russian work on comparative legal history; and Michele Graziadei’s appreciation of Dirk Heirbaut’s comparative work on codification. All reviews in this issue demonstrate the continued vitality of comparative legal history, to which we are proud to contribute.

The Polish Blackstone: an examination of nineteenth-century Polish scholars’ interpretations of Blackstone and his Commentaries (Lukasz Jan Korporowicz) [OPEN ACCESS]

DOI: 10.1080/2049677X.2026.2671597

The principal goal of this article is to address the reception of William Blackstone's legal thought and the awareness of his contributions within the context of nineteenth-century Polish legal scholarship. Despite the considerable differences between English and Polish legal traditions, the limited proficiency in the English language within Poland, and the relatively gradual evolution of Polish legal thought, Blackstone's works were acknowledged by academic circles in Poland in the nineteenth century. Over time, this awareness manifested in direct engagement with certain aspects of Blackstone's perspectives. Nonetheless, the temporal disparity between Blackstone's period of influence and the evolution of legal scholarship in partitioned Poland significantly limited the practical opportunities for the integration and application of Blackstonian jurisprudence.

Ius commune, Venetian governance, and Croatian Glagolitic culture: testaments from the countryside of Šibenik in the early modern period (1637–1713) (Henrik-Riko Held)

DOI: 10.1080/2049677X.2026.2671589

In the article, I discuss the entanglement of ius commune and Croatian Glagolitic culture under the auspices of Venetian rule in the early modern period. I analyse 222 testaments written in the Croatian language and Glagolitic script between 1637 and 1713 by Glagolitic priests in the countryside of Šibenik, on the eastern Adriatic coast, then under Venetian rule. I address in particular the terminology employed, as well as the structure of the testaments. I compare them with models found elsewhere in Europe, as evidenced by relevant notarial formularies. Finally, I examine the issue of the validity of testaments composed by ostensibly unauthorised persons (parish priests).

Early conflict-of-laws rules: Vietnam’s Lê Code (1483) in East Asian and global contexts (Thảo Anh Hoàng)

DOI: 10.1080/2049677X.2026.2671593

This article examines one of the earliest codified conflict-of-laws rules in East Asia and its overlooked reception in Vietnam. While systematic codifications of conflict rules in Europe developed much later, the Tang Code of China (652 CE) had already incorporated a provision regulating disputes involving foreigners within its territory. This rule was subsequently received in the legal systems of several Sino-sphere countries, including Vietnam. Vietnam’s Lê Code, in force from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, preserved this conflict rule even after its removal from later Chinese codes beginning in the thirteenth century. This renders the Lê Code the only known continuation of the Tang conflict-of-laws provision.
Long mistranslated as a criminal clause concerning ‘minority ethnic groups’, the relevant provision in the Lê Code is re-evaluated here as a conflict-of-laws rule applicable to both civil and criminal matters. This reinterpretation is situated within the context of East Asian legal culture with a functional equivalence approach. The study shows that Vietnamese law should not be viewed only as a marginal recipient of Chinese legal influence, but rather as a key site where an early conflict-of-laws rule was preserved, adapted, and given historical significance within the development of conflict-of-laws regulations across different jurisdictions. The paper also offers a comparative analysis with other legal traditions of the same period as Tang law, including those of early medieval Europe and the Islamic world.

Re-enacting the judicial philosophy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Saunders v Vautier and Claflin v Claflin compared (Ann Mumford) [OPEN ACCESS]

DOI: 10.1080/2049677X.2026.2671607

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. sat on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1889, when, in the case of Claflin v Claflin, he joined the decision that a trust may not be modified if the intention of the testator would be undermined. Claflin rejected Lord Cottenham’s reasoning in Saunders v Vautier that, under certain circumstances, beneficiaries may compel the termination of the trust and transfer the property to them. Claflin v Claflin and Saunders v Vautier are perhaps the two most famous cases in Anglo-American Equity. Through a detailed examination of manuscripts, this article offers a comparative expansion of the US and English histories, and particularly considers the role played by Holmes. Re-enactment theory offers the possibility of creating, or reliving, the intellectual process that led to Claflin, thus revealing a significant moment in the history of US federalism.

Comparative law today – tomes, themes, trends (Ralf Michaels) [Invited essay; OPEN ACCESS]

DOI: 10.1080/2049677X.2026.2671591

This essay surveys recent themes and trends in comparative law scholarship, with a particular eye towards the connections between comparative law and legal history. The author observes a significant movement towards encyclopaedisation, marked by a proliferation of handbooks and encyclopaedias that attempt to systematise knowledge, though these works often struggle with comprehensiveness and persistent Eurocentrism. While traditional treatises continue to show fealty to established functionalist models, there is an observable shift away from the historical dominance of private law towards holistic, post-doctrinal, and interdisciplinary approaches. A primary concern raised is the ‘turn to method’, where the discipline has become increasingly self-absorbed with methodological pluralism and theory, sometimes resulting in ‘method without comparison’. Furthermore, the survey highlights the vital emergence of decolonial and postcolonial scholarship originating from the Global South, facilitating South-South comparison and challenging the field's colonial and Eurocentric foundations. Finally, the author examines the uneasy relationship between comparative law and legal history, questioning whether the discipline can move beyond viewing legal systems as separate entities towards a more integrated world law approach.

Book Review

Legal responses to mass migration: from the nineteenth century to World War II, edited by Luigi Nuzzo, Michele Pifferi, Giuseppe Speciale and Cristina Vano (Panikos Panayi)
De l’esprit des lois by Montesquieu, edited by Benjamin Hoffmann (James Q. Whitman)
Family and justice in the archives: historical perspectives on intimacy and the law, edited by Peter Gossage and Lisa Moore (Chiara Valsecchi)
Memory and authority: the uses of history in constitutional interpretation, by Jack M. Balkin (Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn)
Shifting sovereignties: a global history of a concept in practice, by Moritz Mihatsch and Michael Mulligan and Sovereignty: European and global histories, 1400-1800, by Cornel Zwierlein and Daniel Lee (James J. Sheehan)
Redefining codification: a comparative history of civil, commercial, and procedural codes, by Dirk Heirbaut (Michele Graziadei)
Legal education in the western world: a cultural and comparative history, by Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo (Giulio Abbate)
Punishment, labour and the legitimation of power, edited by Adam S Fagbore, Nabhojeet Sen and Katherine Roscoe (Marjorie Carvalho de Souza)
Law and art in the 19th century. Power in images, edited by Giovanni Rossi and Pietro Schirò (Elisabetta Fusar Poli)
Strafgesetzbücher der Zwischenkriegszeit, edited by Arnd Koch and Martin Löhnig (Milan Kuhli)
Crime and civilization: the birth of criminology in the early nineteenth century, by Janne Kivivouri (Roberto Catello)
The legal legacy of the reformation: Catholic and Protestant approaches to law, edited by John Duddington (Paolo Astorri)
From masters of slaves to lords of lands: the transformation of ownership in the western world, by James Q Whitman (Rosa Congost)
Сравнительная история зарубежного права. Учебник. Том I: Правовые традиции Древности и Средневековья [Comparative history of foreign law. Volume I: legal traditions of antiquity and the middle ages], by Dmitrii Iur'evich Poldinkov; Сравнительная история зарубежного права. Учебник. Том II: Современные правовые традиции [Comparative history of foreign law. Volume II: contemporary legal traditions], by Dmitrii Iur'evich Poldinkov (William E. Butler)

To read the articles, please click here. Online access is free for members of the European Society for Comparative Legal History.

Two HLR Notes: Montesquieu and "Historical Absence"

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Two notes in Harvard Law Review 139: 8 (June 2026) are of interest to constitutional historians. The first is Montesquieu’s Day in Court: Recovering a Classical Understanding of Separated Powers:

The Supreme Court has developed an increasingly pronounced reliance on Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, as an authoritative voice on American constitutional structure. But the Montesquieu who appears in the United States Reports is not the complex, empirical sociologist who authored The Spirit of Laws in 1748. This Note argues that neither of the Court’s principal approaches to separation of powers — formalism and functionalism — fully engages with the intellectual tradition each claims to inherit from Montesquieu.

The second is Historical Absence and Constitutional Interpretation:

[This Note] draws attention to a type of originalist argument — the argument from historical absence — and the implementation issues it exacerbates. To address these challenges, it presents a modest framework that may be employed by courts required to consider these arguments. This Note conceives of arguments from historical absence as a style of assertion that centers the lack of historical evidence. A litigant hoping to rely upon historical absence may canvass the relevant historical record, find no sufficient historical analogue, and contend that this lack of evidence is itself supportive of their argument — typically, that a governmental practice would have been deemed (un)constitutional at the Founding. These arguments may be used both offensively (using historical absence to challenge a practice) and defensively (using historical absence to support a practice). Simply put, an offensive argument from historical absence may be: “No evidence supports the assertion that the original public meaning of X, or any analogous original public meaning, would permit Y; thus, Y is impermissible.” By contrast, a defensive argument may be: “No evidence supports the assertion that laws regulating Y, or its analogues,were treated as constitutionally suspect at the Founding; thus, the original public meaning of X was understood to permit Y and analogous regulations.”

--Dan Ernst

Open Access Journal: Mélanges de l'école française de Rome

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Mélanges de l'école française de Rome

Collection sur Persée 1881 - 2009

Barrière fixe 2000

Discipline archéologie, études classiques

Éditeur actuel École Française de Rome

eISSN non disponible

DOI 10.3406/mefr

Historique de la collection

1881-1970 - Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire (ISSN :0223-4874)
1971-1999 - Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité (ISSN : 0223-5102)
1971-1988 - Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen-Age, Temps modernes (ISSN : 0223-5110)
1989-1999 - Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen-Age (ISSN : 1123-9883)
1989-1999 - Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée (ISSN : 1123-9891)

Présentation de la collection

L'École française de Rome publie un périodique, les Mélanges de l'École française de Rome, divisé depuis 1974 en trois séries : Antiquité (MEFRA), Moyen Âge (MEFRM), Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporainse (MEFRIM), à compter de deux livraisons annuelles chacune.

Les MEFRA publient des articles portant sur l’histoire, la culture et l’archéologie des mondes anciens en Méditerranée, en particulier en Italie, en Afrique du Nord et dans les Balkans, mais portant également sur les interactions entre cet espace et le reste du monde antique. Ils publient aussi des dossiers thématiques en lien avec les fouilles et les programmes scientifiques de l’EFR, et plus généralement des études relevant de diverses disciplines (histoire, archéologie, archéométrie, épigraphie, philologie, droit etc.), de la Préhistoire à la fin de l’Antiquité.

Les MEFRM ont constitué, de 1971 à 1988, une série commune avec les Temps Modernes et, depuis 1989, une série indépendante avec deux fascicules annuels. Ils proposent des contributions scientifiques originales dans les domaines de l’histoire, de l’archéologie et des sciences sociales sur l’Italie et la Méditerranée du haut Moyen Âge à la Renaissance. La plupart des fascicules contiennent un dossier thématique coordonné par un spécialiste. Les articles, qui comprennent souvent l’édition de sources inédites et des cahiers iconographiques, illustrent les divers champs de la médiévistique contemporaine. Ils sont publiés en français, en italien et en anglais, avec des résumés dans la langue de l’auteur et en anglais.

Les MEFRIM publient des articles d’histoire moderne et contemporaine portant sur l’histoire de l’Italie, de la Méditerranée et ses interactions avec la péninsule italienne, des relations et des échanges franco-italiens. Compte tenu des fonds romains, la revue accorde une place importante à l’histoire de Rome, de l’Église et de la papauté tout en couvrant tous les domaines disciplinaires. Elle est ouverte au droit et aux sciences sociales, en particulier à la géographie, à la sociologie et aux sciences politiques. Elle publie des dossiers thématiques en lien avec les programmes scientifiques de l’École et des sources.

Liens

Les ouvrages et les périodiques publiés depuis l'année 2000 sont, par contre, disponibles en ligne sur le site web de Casalini Digital Division à l'exception des fascicules 280 et 281 de la Collection de l'École française de Rome, du fascicule 4 de « Sources et documents d'histoire du Moyen Âge » et des publications parues dans les collections du Centre Jean Bérard. www.torrossa.it

À partir de 2010 (tomes 122-1) les Mélanges de l'École française de Rome sont aussi disponibles en ligne sur le site de www.revues.org. La Chronique des activités archéologiques devient une revue à part entière accessible uniquement en ligne également sur le site de www.revues.org. La lecture/visualisation des articles et de la Chronique est totalement gratuite:

> journals.openedition.org/mefra/ (Mélanges. Antiquité)

> journals.openedition.org/mefrm/ (Mélanges. Moyen Âge)

> journals.openedition.org/mefrim/ (Mélanges. Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporaines)

> journals.openedition.org/cefr/ (Chronique des activités archéologiques)

Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire

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Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen-Age, Temps modernes

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100-2

Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité

1971-1979

1971
83-1
83-2

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84-1
84-2

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85-1
85-2

1974
86-1
86-2

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87-1
87-2

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88-1
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Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée

1989-1999

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101-1
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103-2

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104-1
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Open Access Monograph Series: Archaiologia

2026-06-11T19:07:07+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 14 October 2022, updated 11 June 2026]

Archaiologia

ISSN (Édition imprimée) : 2103-5458

ISSN électronique : 2778-7427

Sous la direction de Sandrine Huber

Collection créée par Arthur Muller et dirigée par Sandrine Huber, professeure d’archéologie grecque et d’histoire de l’art grec à l’université de Lille.

Prenant acte du développement des sciences de l’Antiquité à l’université de Lille et du déploiement des sciences de l’Archéologie jusqu’à l’époque contemporaine, les Presses universitaires du Septentrion ont créé en 2006 la collection Archaiologia, au sein du domaine Temps, Espace et Société.

La collection Archaiologia – du mot grec qui désigne chez Thucydide l’étude du passé – accueille toutes les recherches archéologiques selon des arcs chronologique et géographique étendus, depuis la Préhistoire jusqu’à l’époque contemporaine, portant d’une part sur les civilisations méditerranéennes, classiques ou non, et leurs marges, à l’image de la vaste enquête, Historia, d’Hérodote, d’autre part sur les sociétés de nos régions. Elle est ouverte à la présentation et à l’exploitation de tous les types de sources, écrites (textuelles et épigraphiques), iconographiques et matérielles, dans toutes les directions de l’histoire (politique, économique, religieuse, artistique, culturelle…) et plus largement de l’anthropologie culturelle des sociétés du passé. La collection Archaiologia fait place aussi bien aux ouvrages monographiques qu’aux actes de manifestations scientifiques, lorsque les contributions y présentent une forte unité thématique.

Pour une archéologie du suburbium entre Rome et les Gaules

Aménagements, espaces, réseaux aux limites de la ville romaine. Études de cas

Elisabetta Interdonato (dir.)

2026

Le charbon de terre dans la France du Nord

Son usage jusqu’à l’époque moderne

Benjamin Jagou

2025

Réemploi, réutilisation, référence dans les sociétés anciennes

Anastasia Paillard et Mitchka Shahryari (dir.)

2025

Le monde grec des foulons

Histoire et archéologie d’un métier du textile dans l’Orient grec

Enora Le Quéré

2024

Pratiques d’ateliers dans la Grèce et l’Égypte anciennes

Du coroplathe au bronzier

Sophie Descamps-Lequime et Violaine Jeammet (dir.)

2023

Le feu dans la cité antique

Usages, risques, réglementations

Grégoire Poccardi et Gorgios M. Sanidas (dir.)

2022

Boulogne-sur-Mer antique, entre terre et mer

Gesoriacum-Bononia, le port et son arrière-pays

Olivier Blamangin, Angélique Demon et Christine Hoët-van Cauwenberghe (dir.)

2020

Le mythe Néron

La fabrique d'un monstre dans la littérature antique (i^er-v^e s.)

Laurie Lefebvre

2017

Archéologues des Hauts-de-France de 1790 à nos jours

Pierre Leman

2017

L’artisanat en Grèce ancienne

Filières de production

Francine Blondé (dir.)

2016

Choses vues et entendues par Pausanias

Guide des croyances de la Grèce antique

Jacques Boulogne, Marion Muller-Dufeu et Maude Picouet-de Crémoux (dir.)

2015

Figurines grecques en contexte

Présence muette dans le sanctuaire, la tombe et la maison

Stéphanie Huysecom-Haxhi et Arthur Muller (dir.)

2015

Figurines de terre cuite en Méditerranée grecque et romaine

2 - Iconographie et contextes

Arthur Muller et Ergün Laflı (dir.)

2015

Corps, travail et statut social

L’apport de la paléoanthropologie funéraire aux sciences historiques

Anne-Catherine Gillis (dir.)

2014

« Quartiers » artisanaux en Grèce ancienne

Une perspective méditerranéenne

Arianna Esposito et Giorgos M. Sanidas (dir.)

2013

« Créer du vivant »

Sculpteurs et artistes dans l’Antiquité grecque

Marion Muller-Dufeu

2011

Figures d’empire, fragments de mémoire

Pouvoirs et identités dans le monde romain impérial (II^e s. av. n. è.–VI^e s. de. n. è.)

Stéphane Benoist, Anne Daguet-Gagey et Christine Hoët-van Cauwenberghe (dir.)

2011

Boulogne et Thérouanne au temps de César

Approche toponymique de la cité des Morins

Hubert Le Bourdellès

2009

See AWOL's Alphabetical List of Open Access Monograph Series in Ancient Studies

Eclipses, Volcanoes, and Eponyms: New Perspectives on the Chronology of the Early Second Millennium BC in Mesopotamia

2026-06-11T17:58:36+00:00

Eclipses, Volcanoes, and Eponyms: New Perspectives on the Chronology of the Early Second Millennium BC in Mesopotamia

Nahm W., Roaf M.

Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Series Archaeologica, 43

This volume contains the revised and expanded papers concerning Mesopotamia given at the conference on New Perspectives on the Chronology of the Early Second Millennium BC in the Near East and Egypt. It includes investigations of the chronology of the Isin, Larsa, and Hana dynasties, as well as papers concerned with the chronology of northern Mesopotamia in the first half of the second millennium BC. New and authoritative studies of the most important sources, including the Venus Tablets of Ammi-saduqa, the Kültepe Eponym Lists, and the Mari Eponym Chronicle, incorporate not only philological and historical insights but also information from astronomy, eclipses, calendrical systems, radiocarbon analyses, dendrochronology, ice-layer dating, and vulcanology. One of the many important conclusions reached is that the most probable chronological scheme is the Lower Middle Chronology with the accession of Hammurabi in 1784 BC.
The volume will be valued by all those interested in the history of Mesopotamia.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here.

year: 2025

isbn: 9789042957077

pages: X-255 p.

The Kingdom of Kizzuwatna: Recent Developments in Research. Proceedings of the Third NINO Postdoctoral Research Fellow Annual Conference, Leiden, 23rd-25th March 2023

2026-06-11T17:55:59+00:00

The Kingdom of Kizzuwatna: Recent Developments in Research. Proceedings of the Third NINO Postdoctoral Research Fellow Annual Conference, Leiden, 23rd-25th March 2023

editor: Trameri A.

PIHANS, 137

These proceedings, from the Third NINO Postdoctoral Research Fellow Annual Conference, held in Leiden in March 2023, collect twelve contributions on a wide array of topics related to the kingdom of Kizzuwatna, a local polity in southern Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1200 BCE).
The volume brings together multiple disciplinary perspectives, including archaeology, material culture studies, philology, and historical linguistics. Following a historical introduction to the kingdom of Kizzuwatna (Section I), the contributions are organized into four thematic sections: Archaeology and Geography (II), Texts, Philology, and Language (III), Religion, Rituals, and Culture (IV), and Kingship and Ideology (V).
The aim of the volume is to offer an updated view of the kingdom of Kizzuwatna, reflecting recent research developments, discoveries, and interpretations from a range of scholarly perspectives.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here.

year: 2026

isbn: 9789042955141

pages: X-214 p.

Past, Present, and Future of the School of Salamanca. A Congress Report on its Fifth Centenary

2026-06-11T00:00:19+00:00

Rows of tiny rough wooden benches, accompanied by small narrow desks with centuries of students’ inscriptions and drawings carved into them for eternity. Bare walls, no heating (even nowadays, and February is a cold month in Salamanca), a small window with dull winter light filtering in and classes starting at 7 o’clock in the morning. The cold was so extreme that rich students are believed to have sent their servants in advance to warm their seats for them (hence, the saying “calentar banco” in Spanish). Those not so lucky had to put up with cold temperatures and chattering teeth. All for the sake of attending the lectures of Francisco de Vitoria, who himself was probably perched on the small lectern at the front. That is how the School of Salamanca began 500 years ago.

That is also how we, the project The School of Salamanca, happened to find ourselves in the academic hometown of many of our authors: participating in the congress dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the School, but, of course, also getting back to the roots and seeing how the School of Salamanca came to be in all its material aspects.

The School of Salamanca was an intellectual movement in Spain during the sixteenth century and early seventeenth century. But what remains of it, and does it still matter for the challenges of our present and future? This was the central theme of the congress marking the fifth centenary of Francisco de Vitoria’s appointment to the cátedra de prima theologia at the University of Salamanca in 1526. The international congress, running for an entire week, from February 9-13, and consisting of 35 panels, was wonderfully organised by María Martín Gómez, Idoya Zorroza and David Jiménez in collaboration with other colleagues from the University of Salamanca, the Pontifical University of Salamanca and the Pontifical Faculty of Theology San Esteban. Despite a very full program, the team also made it possible to include a rich cultural offer to accompany the intellectual exchange. Overlapping panels, including those presented online, however, made it impossible to attend all sessions, many of which sounded highly interesting. For this reason, the following congress report highlights our favorite takeaways and is therefore necessarily selective and subjective.

Dominican monastery San Esteban, entrance hall; according to the local tradition, Christopher Columbus was welcomed here by the monks for a discussion of his plans to send ships out onto the Western Atlantic, © Christiane Birr

Past – Was There a ‘School of Salamanca’?

At first glance, the School of Salamanca seems like a clearly identifiable intellectual movement rooted in sixteenth-century Spain. However, closer inspection reveals a more complicated picture. Historians and philosophers continue to debate whether it ever existed as a “school” in the strict sense—an institution with shared doctrines, methods, and membership—or whether it is better understood as a retrospective label imposed on a diverse set of thinkers.

Traditionally, the School is associated with figures such as Francisco de Vitoria and Domingo de Soto, whose lectures and writings at the University of Salamanca shaped discussions on theology, law, and moral philosophy. Their methodic clarity in the exposition and comments on Aquinas Summa theologiae, introduced by Vitoria in Salamanca in 1526, soon profiled him as a renewer of the scholastic theology, and created a following among students and scholars, first and foremost among the Dominican friars of the Convent San Esteban. At least that was the perception of Domingo Báñez while reconstructing the intellectual genealogy of the School, according to José Angel García Cuadrado. In his closing remarks to the conference, Juan Belda Plans reaffirmed this traditional perspective by emphasizing what he termed the theological vocation of the School. He called on the audience to carry forward Vitoria’s spirit of doing theology, namely, the use of rational and speculative discourse to address vital and practical questions within a biblical and patristic framework. At the same time, the congress highlighted the need to move beyond this narrow canon. The inclusion of transatlantic figures such as Alonso de la Veracruz underscores that what we call the School of Salamanca was not confined to a single place, but extended into the intellectual life of the Spanish Empire, focusing on the contribution of Latin American spaces of thought.

Moreover, the so-called School was never limited to one discipline. Its members—or those later grouped under this label—engaged in theological debates about moral responsibility, juridical arguments about the rights of indigenous peoples, philosophical inquiries grounded in Aristotelian-Thomist traditions, and economic reflections on value, price, and money. Rather than a unified doctrine, we find a multidimensional field of inquiry, in which the ratio theologica or philosophica operate as interwoven modes of reasoning, as Ricardo de Luis suggested in the final panel.

This plurality also implies disagreement. On key issues such as the legitimacy of conquest, the conditions of just war, or the status of non-European peoples, Salamanca thinkers did not speak with one voice. As emphasized in the congress discussions the School of Salamanca may be better understood as a space of intellectual dispute rather than a coherent system.

Present – Why Does the School of Salamanca Matter Today?

What exactly are scholars seeking when they return to the Salamanca School: historically grounded ethical insights that can inform contemporary debates, a conceptual framework reshaped to fit modern and postmodern categories, or a polyphonic phenomenon illuminated in its own original intellectual context? The enduring appeal of the School of Salamanca lies in its apparent engagement with issues that continue to shape our world: colonialism, global justice, economic ethics, and international law. Yet this relevance is not straightforward. It depends on how we interpret early modern concepts in light of modern categories.

A central methodological challenge is the risk of anachronism. Can we meaningfully compare sixteenth-century discussions of empire with contemporary debates on racism or colonialism? Are the underlying problems the same, or do they only appear similar because we project our conceptual frameworks onto the past? These questions do not undermine the relevance of the School of Salamanca; rather, they define the conditions under which it can be meaningfully engaged.

Project Team and two of our Authors in Front of the Entrance to Salamanca University (2026), © Florian König

In the context of colonial expansion, Salamanca thinkers famously addressed the rights of indigenous peoples and the legitimacy of Spanish rule. Their arguments have often been read as early critiques of imperial domination. At the same time, they operated within—and did not fundamentally reject—the structures of the empire. This ambivalence makes them both a source of criticism and a subject of it.

A similar tension appears in economic thought. The Salamanca authors developed sophisticated reflections on just price, market exchange, and monetary practices. While they are sometimes portrayed as precursors of modern capitalism, such interpretations risk oversimplification. Their primary concern was not the promotion of markets, but the moral evaluation of economic practices. “In this little treatise, I did not wish to be a preacher, but a doctor; not a fluent and elegant rhetorician, but a moral theologian, clear and concise” (Tomás de Mercado, 1569). Prices and contracts were to reflect fairness and true value, while profit was legitimate only when it did not harm others or violate moral norms. Economic practices were assessed according to human dignity and the welfare of communities, prohibiting exploitation, usury, and unjust enrichment.

Perhaps the most significant conceptual bridge to the present is the idea of international law grounded in natural law. As highlighted by Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, natural law provided a normative framework aimed to articulate universal principles of justice, with Francisco de Vitoria playing a decisive role in what can be understood as a paradigm shift and the formulation of key modern distinctions. At the same time, Lutz-Bachmann warns that international law today appears increasingly non-binding for politicians, raising the danger of a genuine anarchy of states. Whether such a framework like natural law can still function in pluralistic and secular societies remains an open question—but it is precisely this question that keeps the School of Salamanca relevant.

From this perspective, the value of Salamanca lies less in providing ready-made answers than in offering a historically grounded way of asking questions. As Virginia Aspe has argued, the School of Salamanca can be understood as an “alternative project of modernity”—one that differs from the trajectories associated with Protestant and British traditions. Engaging with Salamanca thus opens a space for rethinking modernity itself.

This is particularly striking when we consider the historical context in which Salamanca thinkers operated. They were confronted with profound transformations: the encounter with the Americas, the upheavals of the Reformation, and the emergence of new political and economic structures. In this sense, their situation bears a structural resemblance to our own, marked by globalization, political fragmentation, and crises of normative order.

Future – What Lies Ahead for Research on the School of Salamanca?

If the past of the School of Salamanca is contested and its present relevance conditional, the future of its research remains open. While no clear predictions can be made, several challenges and opportunities are already visible.

One of the most pressing tasks is the preservation and accessibility of its sources. Much of the Salamancan corpus remains difficult to access, scattered across libraries and often available only in early modern editions. The digitization of these texts is therefore not merely a technical issue, but a prerequisite for ensuring that Salamanca remains a part of an active scholarly discourse. In a digitalized world, visibility depends on accessibility. That is why the primary task of our project is digitizing the School’s sources and making them accessible. This includes full texts and digital copies of central texts of the authors of the School, as well as important reference works on which the Salmantine authors relied when writing their books.

Closely related to this is the globalization of Salamanca studies. The inclusion of Latin American perspectives, already emphasized at the congress, points toward a less Eurocentric understanding of the field. Future research will likely depend on transnational collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches.

University of Salamanca: detail of the main façade, © Christiane Birr

Meanwhile building on recent scholarship, two concepts borrowed from the history of knowledge and sociological studies have been applied to the School of Salamanca. Understanding the School of Salamanca as an “epistemic community” and a “community of practices” reframes it as an intellectual network that produced legal, moral, and economic normative knowledge across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. This methodological approach offers promising perspectives for research, as it enables scholars to analyse how knowledge, methods, and norms are produced and transmitted collectively. Members of this community shared methods, sources, and styles of argumentation, allowing them to address questions of justice, commerce, and human conduct in a consistent way of pragmatic reasoning.

At the conceptual level, the challenge is to determine whether and how Salamancan ideas can be translated into contemporary debates. Can natural law be reformulated in a way that speaks to pluralistic societies? Can early modern reflections on global order contribute to current discussions on international justice, postcolonial critique, or the ethics of war?

Ultimately, how the School of Salamanca is remembered will depend on the ability of the historical research on it to remain intellectually productive. This requires not only scholarly rigor, but also a willingness to engage with broader audiences and contemporary concerns.

Conclusion

Five hundred years on, the School of Salamanca resists simple characterization. It was not a fully unified “school” in its own time, yet it has become a powerful point of reference in ours. Its present significance lies not in offering definitive solutions, but in framing enduring questions about justice, law, and global coexistence.

In this sense, its legacy is neither fixed nor exhausted. It is continuously reinterpreted—shaped by the concerns of each generation that returns to it. The challenge, and the opportunity, is to ensure that this engagement remains both historically informed and critically aware. As the intellectual legacy of the Salamancan authors lives on, our project continues to make its contribution to it by making its primary works accessible and searchable as well as by building up a dictionary of the main terms of its juridical-political discourse. After coming in touch with the city and seeing the School’s birthplace for ourselves, we continue our work with a new perspective and a deeper understanding of historical and material context, in which these works were created.

CfA: Workshop „Counterrevolution and Democratic Transformation“ I St. Gallen I 22.10.26

2026-06-11T11:30:46+00:00

Am 22.06.26 findet an der Universität St. Gallen der Workshop „Counterrevolution and Democratic Transformation“ statt. In ihm soll verhandelt werden, inwiefern Maßnahmen des Ausnahmezustands in heutigen Demokratien zum Mittel werden, um permanente autoritäre Strukturen zu errichten. Besonders im Vordergrund steht dabei das Konzept der „Counterrevolution“ von Bernard Harcourt, der selbst auch anwesend sein und eine Keynote halten wird.

Der Workshop richtet sich insbesondere an Doktorand*innen und Postdoktorand*innen. Bis zum 31.07.26 können Abstracts von 300–500 sowie eine Kurzbio von 100–200 Wörtern an Damian Nussbaumer (damian.nussbaumer(at)unisg.ch) Leire Urricelqui (leire.urricelqi(at)unisg.cg) gerichtet werden. Der Workshop wird auf Englisch abgehalten. Näheres und einen detaillierten CfA finden sich hier.

SSRN PAPER: Ross E. DAVIES, "A Wig Without a Home: The Comedic Wisdom of Sir Frederick Pollock" Green Bag 2s XXIX (2025)

2026-06-11T07:00:00+00:00

(image source: Liberty Fund)

Abstract:

Frederick Pollock (1845-1937) was the Green Bag’s kind of scholar. The first half of this paper consists of a sketch of his career and character, followed by a closer look at his sense of humor and the roles it played in his work. The second half of the paper is in two sections. First, there is a full republication of the text of a tiny book — a short story by Pollock titled “Queen Titania’s Chancellor”— that for nearly a century sat unnoticed on a bookshelf in the library of the Queen’s Dolls’ at Windsor Castle, until Elizabeth Clark Ashby (Curator of Books and Manuscripts in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle) gave Pollock’s miniature masterpiece some long-overdue and well-deserved attention in her 2024 book (full-sized), “The Miniature Library of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House.” Second, there is a close (but incomplete) reading and analysis of that tiny text. If there are any lessons to be drawn from this paper, perhaps they are that greatness need not always be cloaked in dignity, and that Jack Point was not the only wit who could “teach you with a quip, if I’ve a mind” or “trick you into learning with a laugh.”

Read more here: DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6222058.

(source: Law & Humanities Blog)

Crossdressing der Disziplinen? Literaturwissenschaft und die Politik des Bekenntnisses

2026-06-11T07:00:24+00:00

Im Rahmen der aktuellen ZPTh-Debatte auf dem Theorieblog antwortet heute Astrid Séville auf den Kommentar von Albrecht Koschorke zu ihrem Beitrag „Kitsch und Krise“.

Für Autoren akademischer Texte gilt üblicherweise, was wir als Maxime aus dem britischen Königshaus kennen: never complain, never explain. Sie vermeiden es, irritierenden Besprechungen eine Verteidigung des eigentlich Gemeinten hinterherzuschicken und grübeln stattdessen im Stillen über Interpretationen, Intentionen und womöglich unglückliche Formulierungen, statt sich darüber zu freuen, überhaupt gelesen zu werden. Die weitgehend entintellektualisierte Universität und die Zwänge des Publikationswesen erschweren riskantes und lustvolles Lesen und Schreiben; Kontroversen sind oftmals vorsichtig oder strategisch. Umso erfreulicher ist das Format des Theorieblogs, einen Beitrag aus der Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie nicht nur kommentieren zu lassen, sondern den Autor auch respondieren zu lassen. Dass Albrecht Koschorke meinen Essay „Kitsch und Krise“ kommentiert hat, freut und ehrt mich sehr. Gerne nehme ich daher die Gelegenheit wahr, zu antworten.

In meinem Text widme ich mich den Herausforderungen für gegenwärtige Beschwörungen einer Wehrhaftigkeit liberaler Demokratie und untersuche Beispiele politischer Aufrufe zur Verteidigung von Demokratie und Verfassungsstaat, die vertraute Denk- und Sprechmuster auf neue, bisweilen sentimentale Weise arrangieren. Albrecht Koschorke liest nun meinen Beitrag als Plädoyer für eine stärkere Mobilisierung liberaler Gesellschaften im Angesicht äußerer und innerer Bedrohungen und sieht die Gefahr einer Militarisierung politischer Denkweisen und zugleich meines Fachs, der Politikwissenschaft. Die von mir zitierte Formulierung Karl Schlögels vom „Siegen lernen“ interpretiert er als Indiz für eine Verschiebung hin zu heroischen und kämpferischen Narrativen, die mit einer Logik von Aufrüstung, Feindbildkonstruktion und ideologischer Eskalation einhergehen. Darüber hinaus kritisiert Koschorke, dass ich eine Verbindung zwischen demokratischer Selbstbehauptung und sicherheitspolitischer Aufrüstung suggeriere, ohne diese auszuarbeiten, und dabei alternative Strategien wie diplomatische Zurückhaltung oder internationale Kooperation vernachlässige.

Vorweg der in meinen Augen wichtigste Punkt: Koschorkes Lektüre verkennt den vorrangig diagnostischen Charakter meines Texts. Ein Literaturwissenschaftler wie er kann zwischen Analyse und normativer Forderung unterscheiden, daher verrät die suggestive Kommentierung mehr über den Kommentator als über den kommentierten Text. Mir geht es um Formen der politischen Kommunikation im liberal-demokratischen Spektrum; Begriffe wie „wehrhafte Streitkompetenz“ oder „wehrhafte Sentimentalität“ dienen mir dazu, rhetorische Strategien sichtbar zu machen. Meine Analyse zielt weder auf schnelle Affirmation noch Verunglimpfung solcher Strategien, sondern zunächst einmal auf deren kritische Durchdringung.

Auch die Schlussfigur des zitierten „Siegen lernen“ ist bei genauerer Betrachtung keineswegs als eindeutiger Aufruf zu verstehen. Es handelt sich um eine Formulierung, die selbst bereits relativiert ist – nicht zuletzt durch das von Schlögel eingefügte „vielleicht“, auf das auch Koschorke aufmerksam macht. Eingebettet in einen Kontext von Sprachlosigkeit, Erschütterung und Reflexion entfaltet dieses Zitat vielmehr diejenige ambivalente Wirkung, um die es mir gerade geht: Es markiert die Spannung zwischen postheroischer oder antimilitaristischer oder antibellizistischer Selbstverortung und geopolitischer Realität, ohne diese Spannung aufzulösen.

In meinem Text warne ich vor martialischen oder autoritären Formen politischer Kommunikation, benenne den „Bellizismus autoritärer Kräfte“ und reflektiere die Schwierigkeit, auf jene Herausforderungen zu reagieren, ohne selbst in vergleichbare Muster zu verfallen. Mein Versuch, der, da gebe ich Albrecht Koschorke recht, sicherlich in Form des von der Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie erbetenen, kurzen Essays noch nicht systematisch genug ausgearbeitet sein dürfte, besteht darin, Formen demokratischer Selbstbehauptung zu umkreisen, die weder in patriotisches Pathos noch in autoritäre Kollektivierungsrhetorik kippen. Damit steht also gerade keine Forderung nach Militarisierung und europäischer Besinnung auf Größe im Zentrum, sondern die Analyse eines genuin liberalen Dilemmas: Wie kann eine Gesellschaft, die auf Pluralismus, Selbstkritik und individuelles Freiheitsversprechen setzt, sich gegen ihre Feinde behaupten, ohne ihre eigenen normativen Grundlagen zu untergraben? Dass Albrecht Koschorke, sobald man auf dieses Dilemma aufmerksam macht und politisch nicht tausendfach in alle Richtungen abgesicherte Sätze formuliert, mit Furor alte Reflexe bedient und Militarisierung wittert, zeigt eher, dass meine Analyse ins Schwarze getroffen hat. Er ist der „Habermas- und Reckwitz-Leser“, den politisch zu adressieren so schwierig geworden ist.

Jenes Dilemma formuliere ich ausdrücklich als offene Frage, und ich bleibe dabei, dass es sich um ein Problem unserer Gegenwart handelt, das simple, wohlfeile oder eben kitschige Antworten verbietet. Welche Möglichkeiten politischer Mobilisierung gibt es, die nicht apodiktisch, autoritär oder demagogisch sind? Mit welchen Mitteln reagieren politische Akteure hierzulande auf die Frage, wie man Bürgerinnen und Bürger auf die Verteidigung der liberalen Demokratie einschwören kann – und wie sind diese Reaktionen ihrerseits zu problematisieren: etwa die zunehmende Emotionalisierung politischer Kommunikation, die rhetorische Verbindung von Empathie und Wehrhaftigkeit, die öffentlich vorgetragenen Selbsterklärungen politischer Amtsträger, die Dauerappelle oder die neue Bedeutung von Streit als demokratischer Praxis? Mich motivieren dabei weniger politische Sympathien, Bekenntnisse zu Lagern oder die Abwehr eines Schmittianismus im akademischen Milieu. Dass eine Vorwärtsverteidigung der Demokratie heute sowohl innenpolitisch als auch außenpolitisch erforderlich ist, die ihrerseits Kritik selbst noch im demokratiepolitischen Eifer nicht stillstellt, setze ich indessen als geteilte Wahrnehmung voraus.

In seinem Kommentar zielt Koschorke also auf eine Schießbudenfigur, die nicht ich bin. Wenn ich von „Vorwärtsverteidigung“ oder „Selbstbehauptung der Demokratie“ spreche, beziehe ich diese auf die Fähigkeit demokratischer Gesellschaften, ihre normativen Grundlagen zu artikulieren und gegen Angriffe zu verteidigen – nicht notwendigerweise auf militärische Maßnahmen. Mir geht es just um die Verteidigung einer politischen Kultur der Besonnenheit und der Diplomatie in Zeiten ihrer Bedrohung und Verächtlichmachung. So enervierend die steten Rufe nach einer neuen Erzählung der liberalen Demokratie sind, so aufschlussreich sind heutige Versuche von Akteuren, die ich exemplarisch in meinem Essay anführe, weil sie das genannte Dilemma bearbeiten. Harte, autoritäre Ansprachen werden ebenso wie offensive Kriegstüchtigkeitsrhetorik abgemildert und politisch neu eingebettet. Was machen also jene Akteure, wie sprechen sie und was wollen sie damit bezwecken? Warum erlebt die bis dato wenig theoretisierte Denkfigur einer politischen „Gemeinschaft der Sache“ (Helmuth Plessner 1924) gegenwärtig eine so seltsame Konjunktur? Diesen Fragen nachzugehen, heißt nicht, EU und UNO abschaffen und Schützengräben ausheben zu wollen.

Der Kulturwissenschaftler Helmut Lethen hat in den letzten Jahren immer wieder einen Satz aus Georg Büchners Dantons Tod zitiert: „Geht einmal euren Phrasen nach bis zu dem Punkt, wo sie verkörpert werden“ (zuletzt in Lethen 2025: 25). Es braucht einen Selbstbefragungsprozess, der auch die üblicherweise Unverdächtigen betrifft: Es gilt zu überlegen, wann die normativ richtige Affirmation von „Zurückhaltung“ und „Bedenklichkeit“ (Koschorke) das eigene politische Ordnungs- und Lebensmodell aufs Spiel zu setzen droht. Man muss schon überlegen, wann Sätze nur auf Breitenerfolg und wohliges Gefühl zielen. Mit meinem Kommentator teile ich, so viel Bekenntnis gestatte ich mir hier, um seinem Ruf nach Positionierung entgegenzukommen, das Unbehagen an Revisionismus und Geschichtsvergessenheit. Auch ich setze auf Ideale wie Selbstdistanzierung, Zivilität und Diplomatie. Doch auch die Bekräftigung einer als existenziell notwendig verstandenen, demokratischen Liberalität, das heißt schließlich: auch die eigenen normativen Ansichten entlasten uns Wissenschaftler nicht von der Beschäftigung mit den Herausforderungen und Hässlichkeiten der politischen Welt. Die Politikwissenschaft ist keine Konfession. Während ich mich als Politikwissenschaftlerin für die von mir untersuchten Reden, Bücher, Interventionen als Texte interessiere und dabei ihre internen Spannungen, Widersprüchlichkeiten, Dissonanzen und Probleme zu beleuchten versuche, verfasst der Literaturwissenschaftler Koschorke einen gegenwartspolitischen Kommentar, der letztlich zur Besinnung ruft und damit eine Politik des Bekenntnisses betreibt. Das könnte man als Crossdressing der Disziplinen beschreiben.

Astrid Séville ist Politikwissenschaftlerin und arbeitet als Professorin für Politische Theorie an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.

Del Bianco on Prohibition and the Fourth Amendment

2026-06-11T04:30:00+00:00

Mitchell A. Del Bianco, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia's J.D. and M.A. program in legal history has posted How Prohibition Rewrote the Fourth Amendment, which is forthcoming in the Washington University Jurisprudence Review. Mr. Del Bianco's advisors in the JD-MA program were Thomas Frampton and Sarah Milov. He received the Roger and Madeleine Traynor Prize for the paper; the prize is awarded to the best written work by a graduating student at the University of Virginia School of Law.

During Prohibition, legion defendants-armed with a liberal construction of the Fourth Amendment and the newly minted exclusionary rule-stormed the federal courts with challenges to the introduction of evidence obtained by the searches and seizures of federal officers. This was a period where, by all accounts, Prohibition was vastly altering American policing in lasting ways. Yet little study has been given to how federal courts facilitated that alteration.

This Article surveys and examines decisions, briefings, and contemporary legal commentary and uncovers that much of the judiciary interpreted the Fourth Amendment during Prohibition as having a doctrinal association with the Eighteenth. Federal courts practically reconstrued the meanings of "reasonable," "persons, houses, papers, and effects," and "searches and seizures" to adjust to the realities wrought by the new constitutional mandate of the Eighteenth Amendment to prohibit "intoxicating liquors." At the same time, decisions frequently reflected a desire to enforce national prohibition within the particular statutory bounds of the National Prohibition Act. The result was not only a policing landscape that differed greatly from preceding American history but also a Fourth Amendment landscape that exalted the home while offering second-class protections for searches and seizures occurring outside its walls--a jurisprudential legacy that lives on in the present day.

--Dan Ernst

Open Access Journal: Heritage Turkey

2026-06-10T18:53:50+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 3 February 2016, updated 10 June 2026]

Heritage Turkey
ISSN: 2045-3272

Heritage Türkiye is an annual, full-colour, ‘magazine-style’ publication containing reports on research supported by the BIAA. Short articles are written by project directors and scholars.

Heritage Turkey Online

Volume 15 (2025)

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The Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions fellows tell us about this new BIAA project | Download

Climate change & the environment
Neil Roberts and colleagues ‘show how the Byzantines survived war, plague and climate change’ through pollen data | Download
Müge Ergün and colleagues discuss agriculture and plant domestication in Cappadocia | Download

Habitat & settlement throughout time
R.R.R. Smith provides an annual update on the work being carried out at Aphrodisias | Download
Riley Snyder and team report on ‘Fortifying Lazica’ | Download
Catherine Longford and an international team update us on ongoing excavations in northeastern Anatolia and Georgia | Download
Douglas Baird and colleagues on work at Mendiktepe in 2025 | Download
Gianna Ayala et al. have continued their project of sampling at the Taş Tepeler | Download
Stuart Blaylock’s Gre Amer pottery studies are reinvigorated | Download
Michele Massa and the TKAP team tell us about new finds this year at TürkmenKarahöyük | Download
Alan M. Greaves & İsa Kızgut report on the Telmessos Survey Project, 2025 | Download
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Open Access Journal: In-Scription: revue en ligne d'études épigraphiques

2026-06-10T17:37:43+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 15 November 2021, updated 10 June 2026]

In-Scription: revue en ligne d'études épigraphiques
ISSN électronique: 2553-5293
La revue In-Scription: revue en ligne d'études épigraphiques propose de créer le premier lieu de publication en ligne de textes scientifiques consacrés à l'étude des écritures médiévales en dehors du monde manuscrit, et en particulier à celle des inscriptions médiévales. Elle est animée par l'équipe du Corpus des inscriptions de la France médiévale de Poitiers (CESCM) et entend favoriser la publication dans des délais courts de textes originaux en français et en anglais, produits notamment par de jeunes chercheurs. Un comité de lecture évalue la qualité et la pertinence des textes et sollicite des expertises extérieures le cas échéant. Le responsable prépare la publication en lien avec les auteurs et le webmaster. La revue entend publier les textes au fil de l'eau afin de mettre les textes le plus rapidement possible à disposition d'une communauté scientifique qui possède aujourd'hui assez peu de journaux spécialisés.
n° 1 | 2016-2017

n° 2 | 2017-2018
Numéro spécial : Les inscriptions présentées par les prophètes dans l’art de l’Occident médiéval

n° 3 | 2019-2021

n° 4 | 2022
Numéro spécial Roda de Isábena

n° 5 | 2022-2023

n° 6 | 2026

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Open Access Journal: Bulletin de la Société Française d'Egyptologie (BSFE)

2026-06-10T17:23:37+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 1 November 2012, updated 10 June 2026]

Bulletin de la Société Française d'Egyptologie (BSFE)
ISSN: 0037-9379

eISSN 2971-091X

Le Bulletin de la société française d’égyptologie, qui paraît depuis 1949, est aujourd’hui publié deux fois par an. Il diffuse les informations relatives à la Société et regroupe des textes scientifiques de qualité, exclusivement en français. Les articles sont le produit de communications faites par des scientifiques français ou étrangers autour de leurs recherches sur des sujets très variés.

L’égyptologie a beaucoup évolué depuis les pères fondateurs, on peut parler à présent d’un véritable polymorphisme de la discipline au XXIe siècle : les grands thèmes généraux que sont l’archéologie, l’étude des textes et l’histoire pharaonique se sont enrichis de multiples facettes et de réelles spécialités telles que l’épigraphie, la nubiologie, la céramologie, l’analyse dendro-anthracologique etc. L’architecture, l’étude de la religion de Basse Époque ou des textes d’époque grecque sont devenus aussi, parmi tant d’autres, des champs d’investigation spécifiques pour des chercheurs de plus en plus spécialisés et qui, cependant, collaborent incessamment entre eux : c’est cette pluridisciplinarité et cette diversité que reflète le contenu de chaque BSFE.

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Frauenbilder – Männerbilder: Genderkonstruktionen in hellenistischer Zeit

2026-06-10T17:13:42+00:00

Frauenbilder – Männerbilder: Genderkonstruktionen in hellenistischer Zeit

Laura Kopp-Zimmermann

Mainzer Althistorische Studien (MAS)

In diversen Quellen der hellenistischen Zeit begegnen mächtige und bemerkenswerte Frauen. Dies veranlasste manche ForscherInnen dazu, für den Hellenismus ein recht emanzipiertes Frauenbild zu entwerfen. Über diese Annahmen der Emanzipation lässt sich diskutieren, doch liegt der Fokus dieser Arbeit vielmehr darauf, wie es fernab der Eliten aussah, also fernab von denjenigen, die vornehmlich in solchen bemerkenswerten Quellen auftauchen. Einen interessanten Zugang, um dies zu untersuchen, stellt die hellenistische Dichtung dar, da weibliche Figuren in den erhaltenen Werken viel Platz einnehmen. Diese Arbeit konzentriert sich auf zwei Autoren des 3. Jh. v. Chr.: Herodas und Theokrit.

Zitationsvorschlag

Kopp-Zimmermann, Laura: Frauenbilder – Männerbilder: Genderkonstruktionen in hellenistischer Zeit, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2026 (Mainzer Althistorische Studien (MAS), Band 14). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1684

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Published at ContractsProf Blog: Guest Post by Sid DeLong on Legal Fictions

2026-06-10T17:32:57+00:00

Sid DeLong on Legal Fictions: A Guest Post. Published at ContractsProf Blog.

Fernandez-Lopez on Turandot and the Exhaustion of Power: Ritual, Genealogy, Sacrifice, and the Twilight of Civilizations

2026-06-10T15:16:10+00:00

Edgar A. Fernandez-Lopez has published Turandot and the Exhaustion of Power: Ritual, Genealogy, Sacrifice, and the Twilight of Civilizations.

This article reinterprets Puccini's Turandot not as a fairy tale of feminine cruelty overcome by erotic persistence, but as a twilight drama of exhausted civilizational power. Recovering the libretto's overlooked Tartar genealogy, it argues that Calaf belongs symbolically to the very lineage of the "King of the Tartars" implicated in Turandot's ancestral wound, so that his crossing of the riddle-threshold is recognition rather than conquest. Through textual and musical analysis, and through comparison with Gozzi's Adelma, the study reclaims Liù-not Calaf-as the opera's moral center: a figure of concealed sovereignty whose gratuitous sacrifice, a love detached from possession, dissolves the sacrificial economy sustaining the imperial order. Situating the work alongside Wagnerian twilight, Shakespearean tragedy, and the Girardian theory of sacred violence, the article reads Turandot as a meditation on how civilizations perish spiritually before they perish materially-on how ritual and law outlive the meaning they once served.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.

Crowe on Pseudolaw, Folk Law, and Natural Law: How to Tell the Difference

2026-06-10T15:06:28+00:00

Jonathan Crowe, University of Southern Queensland, School of Law and Justice, has published Pseudolaw, Folk Law and Natural Law: How to Tell the Difference. Here is the abstract.

Pseudolaw presents false or distorted, but superficially plausible, claims about legal doctrine. It is a dangerous and costly social phenomenon, with the potential to undermine social cohesion and the rule of law. Pseudolaw is dangerous, in part, because it is easily confused with two other phenomena that play important and legitimate, albeit widely overlooked, roles in legal processes: folk law and natural law. This chapter explicates the concepts of folk law and natural law, including their relationship to positive law and their place in legal decision-making. It distinguishes these concepts from pseudolaw, while also explaining why they tend to be conflated with it. I argue that folk law and natural law, properly understood, are crucial components of social cohesion and the rule of law; pseudolaw is harmful partly because it obscures and distorts the proper task of these notions in supplementing positive legal enactments.

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BOOK: Anna O. LAW, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship. African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants (Oxford: OUP, 2026), 304 p. ISBN 9780197660096, 19,99 GBP

2026-06-10T07:00:00+00:00

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Abstract:

Since the late nineteenth century, the US federal government has enjoyed exclusive authority to decide whether someone has the ability to enter and stay in US territory. But freedom of movement was not guaranteed in the British colonies or early US. By contrast, voluntary migrants were met with strict laws and policies created by colonies and states, which denied free mobility and settlement in their territories to unwanted populations. Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship presents a story of constitutional development that traces the confluence of the logics of slavery and settler colonialism in early legal rulings and public policy about migration and citizenship. The book examines the division of labor between the national and state governments that endured for over a century, reasons why that arrangement changed in the late nineteenth century, and what the transformation meant for people subject to those regimes of control. Drawing into one study the migration policy histories of groups of people that are usually studied separately, and combining the methodologies of political science, history, and law, Anna O. Law reveals the unmistakable effects of slavery and Native American dispossession in modern US immigration policy.

Table of contents:

Introduction
1:Sifting Migrants
2:Belonging
3:Migration and Citizenship at the Founding
4:Regulating International Borders
5:Regulating Interstate Borders
6:Formal Citizenship Defined
7:Historical Antecedents and Legal Precedents
Epilogue: Continuity, Change, and Constitutional Memory

On the author:

is the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights in the Department of Political Science at CUNY Brooklyn College. She completed her PhD in Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Her publications appear in political science, history, and law journals and investigate the interaction between law, legal institutions, and politics. Her first book, The Immigration Battle in American Courts (2010), examined the role of the federal judiciary in U.S. immigration. She teaches and researches in U.S. constitutional law, federal courts, U.S. immigration policy history, federalism, American Political Development, and race/ethnicity.

Workshop: Die Politik der politischen Theorie, 02.-03.07.2026, Berlin.

2026-06-10T07:00:42+00:00

Vom 02. – 03. Juli wird am Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin über die „Politik der politischen Theorie“ diskutiert um die drei zentralen Autor:innen Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt und Michel Foucault. Ausgegangen wird von der Beobachtung, dass sich in letzter Zeit Forschungen häufen, die eine genuin politische Geschichte politischen Denkens schreiben. So wird z.B. das Marx’sche Denken zunehmend nicht distanziert theoretisch, sondern konkret als „Kritik im Handgemenge“ betrachtet. Arendts widersprüchliches Ringen um eine der Pluralität verpflichtete politische Theorie erscheint in solch einer Perspektive als „Streit“. Und kulturkritische Anstrengungen französischer Theorien wie die Foucaults können sich mit einem derartigen Zugriff geradezu als (post-) koloniale Geopolitik erweisen.
Der Workshop bringt Wissenschaftler:innen zu den drei genannten Autor:innen zusammen, die sich zuletzt um die Rekonstruktion von deren Politiken oder ihrer politischen Kontexte bemüht haben. Ziel ist es, durch die Einblicke in die verschiedenen Forschungen zugleich übergreifende methodische und theoretische Probleme herauszuarbeiten und zu diskutieren.

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Alle Wege führen nach Rom… und manche nach Düsseldorf

2026-06-08T06:19:19+00:00

Hinter dem Team des Kapitularienprojektes liegen ereignisreiche Tage voller intensiver Forschung, internationalem Austausch und wertvoller Vernetzung. Wir blicken auf eine arbeitsreiche Reise in die Ewige Stadt sowie auf die Teilnahme am jüngsten Netzwerktreffen der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste (AWK NRW) in der Landeshauptstadt zurück. Zwei Stationen, die auf unterschiedliche Weise zeigen, wie fruchtbar die Verbindung von traditioneller Handschriftenarbeit und digitalen Methoden ist.

Station 1: Rom – Vom Lesesaal der BAV zum DARIAH Annual Event

Vom 24. bis 29. Mai 2026 verschlug es „uns” (in Person von Daniela Schulz) nach Rom. Die ersten beiden Tage waren der klassischen, analogen Kernarbeit unseres Projekts gewidmet: der Autopsie von Handschriften im Original. In den ehrwürdigen Hallen der Vatikanischen Bibliothek (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, BAV) untersuchten wir die Handschriften Pal. lat. 582, Pal. lat. 289 und Vat. lat. 4982.

Ziel war es, am Digitalisat nicht entzifferbare Textstellen bzw. Korrekturen zu klären. Dabei kam unter anderem eine UV-Lampe zum Einsatz. Das ultraviolette Licht half dabei, vereinzelt radierte, mit bloßem Auge längst unsichtbare Schriftstellen zu entziffern (zumindest in Ansätzen). Momente wie diese zeigen einmal mehr, dass digitale Scans die direkte Arbeit am Codex nie ganz ersetzen können.

Nach zwei Tagen intensiver Arbeit in der BAV ging es von der Handschriften-Autopsie direkt in die Welt der Digital Humanities. An der Universität Roma Tre stand das DARIAH Annual Event 2026 auf dem Programm. Die Veranstaltung stand in diesem Jahr unter der Überschrift „Digital Arts and Humanities With and For Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement”. Am Donnerstag durften wir dort in einer mit rund 30 Personen gut besuchten Session einen Vortrag mit dem Titel „Making Medieval Legal Heritage Accessible: Bibliotheca legum and Capitularia as Cooperative Digital Projects” präsentieren.

In dem Vortrag zeichneten wir nach, wie die zwei historisch sehr unterschiedlich gewachsenen Projekte Capitularia und Bibliotheca legum (BL) erfolgreich Synergien bilden. Beide Projekte greifen heute ineinander, um das weltliche Recht des Frühmittelalters plattformübergreifend und vernetzt zugänglich zu machen. Ein Schlüssel dazu ist auch unsere Kooperation im Netzwerk Databases of Early Latin Manuscripts (DELM). Über den DELM-Lookup-Service verknüpfen wir verstreute Datensätze unkompliziert auf Basis von Bernhard Bischoffs „Katalog” und den „Codices Latini Antiquiores” (CLA). Ergänzt durch standardisierte Identifikatoren des deutschen Handschriftenportals stellen wir sicher, dass unsere TEI-XML-Daten zukunftsfähig und interoperabel bleiben.¹

Besonders gefreut hat uns das Feedback in der anschließenden, sehr lebhaften Fragerunde am Ende der Session: Die Community bestärkte uns nachdrücklich darin, unsere Bemühungen um die Statifizierung der Projekthomepage weiter voranzutreiben. Abseits unseres eigenen Beitrags bot die Konferenz Gelegenheiten, sich mit Kolleginnen und Kollegen internationaler DH-Projekte auszutauschen und neue Kontakte zu knüpfen.

Station 2: Düsseldorf – WissKomm und KI im Akademienprogramm

Kaum aus Rom zurückgekehrt, hieß es dann für das gesamte Team am Mittwoch, den 03. Juni 2026: Auf nach Düsseldorf! Die AWK NRW hatte zum 2. Vernetzungstreffen geladen. Solche Treffen sind eine gute Gelegenheit, um Kontakte zu anderen Langzeitprojekten zu vertiefen, aktuelle Entwicklungen zu diskutieren und in informeller Atmosphäre neue Anknüpfungspunkte für Kooperationen im Rahmen des Akademienprogramms zu entdecken.

Der Vormittag stand ganz im Zeichen der Vorstellung jener Projekte, die in jüngster Zeit neu zum Programm hinzugestoßen sind. Am Nachmittag teilte sich das Programm in zwei parallel verlaufende, hochaktuelle Workshops auf: „Strategisch Wirkung entfalten: Impact und Transfer” mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Wissenschaftskommunikation sowie „Digitalität im Akademienprogramm: KI und Verantwortung”, welcher von der Koordinierungsstelle Digital Humanities (CCeH) gestaltet wurde.

Um möglichst viel von den Workshops für das Projekt mitzunehmen, teilte sich unser Team auf. Beim KI-Workshop waren wir nicht nur als Zuhörer vor Ort, sondern beteiligten uns mit einem eigenen Impuls zum Thema „KI als Teil des zukünftigen editorischen Workflows in Capitularia?” aktiv an der Debatte. Dabei ging es um hochrelevante Fragen: Wo kann künstliche Intelligenz sinnvoll unterstützen, und wo verläuft die Grenze zur (editorischen) Verantwortung, die nach wie vor unteilbar beim menschlichen Experten liegen muss? Die Diskussion hat gezeigt, dass die Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften hier vor gewaltigen, aber ungemein spannenden Umbrüchen stehen und es Orientierungshilfen bedarf, um die Entscheidung für den Einsatz von KI-Tools begründet treffen zu können.

Fazit

Ob mit der UV-Lampe im abgedunkelten Handschriftenlesesaal in Rom oder bei der theoretischen Debatte über Wissenschaftskommunikation und KI-Workflows in Düsseldorf: Wege zur Erkenntnis gibt es viele. Für uns hat sich in den vergangenen Tagen wieder einmal gezeigt, dass Fortschritt im Bereich des digitalen kulturellen Erbes nur durch die Kombination aus handfester philologischer Arbeit und starker, projektübergreifender Vernetzung gelingt.

[1] Mehr zu diesem Thema im Blogpost Aus dem Maschinenraum #1: Vernetzung als Mehrwert. Capitularia zwischen DELM, NFDI und Akademie. Die Folien zum Vortrag werden zeitnah auf Zenodo zur Verfügung gestellt werden. ↑

Empfohlene Zitierweise

Daniela Schulz, Alle Wege führen nach Rom… und manche nach Düsseldorf, in: Capitularia. Edition der fränkischen Herrschererlasse, bearb. von Karl Ubl und Mitarb., Köln 2014 ff. URL: https://capitularia.uni-koeln.de/blog/2026-06-rom-duesseldorf/ (abgerufen am 12.06.2026)

YJLH 36.6: A Festschrift for Gordon Wood

2026-06-10T04:30:00+00:00

We have of course noted the death of the great historian of the American Revolution Gordon Wood. As it happens, the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities has just published online its 36.6 issue: Festschrift in Honor of the Scholarship of Professor Gordon Wood, with the following note:

On November 22-23 of 2024, Yale Law School hosted a special Conference on the Scholarship of Gordon Wood. The Yale Journal of Law & Humanities has the honor of publishing a festschrift volume of papers presented at this conference. Professor Wood was the leading historian of the US Revolution, and it was an honor to bring his work into dialogue with contemporary legal scholarship. This issue is dedicated to Professor Wood's memory.

The editorial team would like to note that Professor Wood, in addition to being a brilliant scholar and wonderful writer, was an extremely kind person. We were all deeply saddened to learn of his passing. It was our genuine pleasure to have had the chance to work with him in preparation of this special issue.

1. Akhil Reed Amar, The Revolution and the Constitution: Two Grand Narratives

2. Mary Sarah Bilder, The Character of the Constitution: Instrument and Constitution

3. Richard D. Brown, Gordon Wood’s The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992): A Comment

4. Jane E. Calvert, Beyond Whig Constitutionalism: New Perspectives on the Constitutional Debates in Creation of the American Republic

5. John O. McGinnis, Gordon Wood’s Republic of Ideas

6. Johann N. Neem, Gordon Wood’s Anti-Elitism and the Crisis of the History Discipline

7. Jack N. Rakove, Being Schooled with Gordon Wood

8. Jeffrey Rosen, Gordon Wood's Radical Achievement

9. Coleen A. Sheehan, Gordon Wood, James Madison, and American Memory

10. William Michael Treanor, Creation and the Republican Revival

11. Michael Zuckert, Clio, Minerva, and the American Republic

12. Gordon S. Wood, Response

--Dan Ernst

Open Access Journal: International Journal of Cultural Property

2026-06-09T20:03:58+00:00

International Journal of Cultural Property

ISSN: 0940-7391 (Print), 1465-7317 (Online)

International Journal of Cultural Property is a leading peer-reviewed journal, published quarterly since 1992. It features articles, essays, editorial comments, current developments, and book reviews by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world addressing developments in cultural heritage and art law in a multidisciplinary context. The Journal also provides analyses of decisions by international, regional, and national courts and tribunals, and contemporary practice and policies of intergovernmental and national bodies and relevant non-governmental organizations in the field.

Volume 33 - 2026

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Using kastom evidence in court: A legal and archaeological review of the intersection between Indigenous cultural heritage, land ownership, and law in Solomon Islands

Charles James Tekarawa Radclyffe, Joseph D. Foukona

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Narrating Gaza beyond dead bodies and rubble pile: A critical assessment of the destruction of Gaza’s cultural heritage and the role of international law

Baha Ebdeir

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Protecting cultural snow: Toward intellectual property rights in traditional environmental knowledge

Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde

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Decolonization in action: Lessons from the Musée d’ethnographie de Genève

Livia Solaro

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Critical reflections on the development of the Gunma Declaration on Heritage Ecosystems: Challenges, contradictions, and opportunities for Indigenous Peoples

Simon Kieser

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Balancing the Ledger: How conditional return undermines the goals of restitution

Isabella Atencio

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Everyday, informal, and overlooked: A systematic literature review on alternative heritage categories

Roberta Raccomandato, Anne-Sophie Veronique Radermecker

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Decolonize or perpetuate: Realizing rights of nature through a critical property theory

Sulafa Victoria Grijalva, WarīN K. Flores

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The limits of environmental law in protecting cultural heritage in Oglala Sioux Tribe v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Jake Newcomb, Audrey F. Gray, Max McDonald Malik, Anthony Brito-Idelfonso

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Restitution through an Indigenous knowledge systems lens

Karen Byera Ijumba, Molemo Moiloa, Syokau Mutonga, Phumzile Twala, Chao Tayiana Maina

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Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Frontier of the Roman Province of Raetia

2026-06-09T18:29:13+00:00

Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Frontier of the Roman Province of Raetia

By Thomas Fischer, Veronika Fischer, Christof Flügel, Markus Gschwind, Martina Meyr, Bernd Steidl, David J. Breeze

Frontiers of the Roman Empire

Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Frontier of the Roman Province of Raetia explores the unique role of Raetia as both a defensive frontier protecting the Italian mainland and a geopolitical crossroads between the eastern and western Roman Empire. Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical research, the volume examines the evolution of the Raetian frontier, troop deployment, local populations, frontier organisation, and the changing fortunes of the province from the early Empire through Late Antiquity. Richly illustrated and accessible, the book offers readers an engaging introduction to the history and significance of one of Rome’s most important frontier regions.
The book also highlights the international importance of the Raetian frontier within the UNESCO World Heritage initiative Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Sections of the former frontier are now recognised as part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes and the Danube Limes (Western Segment), reflecting their outstanding universal value. Featuring guidance to museums and visitor sites along the frontier, this volume supports ongoing efforts to preserve and promote the shared cultural heritage of the Roman world for future generations.
H 248 x W 185 mm
96 pages
Illustrated in full colour throughout
Published Jun 2026
Archaeopress Archaeology
ISBN
Paperback: 9781805832775
Digital: 9781805832782
DOI 10.32028/9781805832775

Contents

Foreword by Suzana Matešić

FRONTIERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Common cultural heritage of the Roman Empire

The Roman Empire

Frontiers and trade

The ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ World Heritage Site

The definition of a World Heritage Site

The task ahead

History and extent of frontiers

Rome’s foreign policy

The location of frontiers

The army and frontiers

The purpose of frontiers

Soldiers and civilians

Military administration

Research on Roman frontiers

Inscriptions and documents

Survey and excavation

Aerial survey and remote sensing

Protection and presentation of frontiers

Future perspectives

THE FRONTIER OF THE ROMAN PROVINCE OF RAETIA

Why Raetia?

The Evolution of the Frontier

The Raetian border

The East Raetian Danube border in the first three centuries

Troop deployment in Raetia

The local population of the province under Roman influence

Military and population at the border in the 2nd and 3^rd centuries

Good times – bad times

Empire in Crisis

Thick high walls – Frontier Organisation in the Late Roman period

Museums on the Raetian Limes

Visitor highlights on the Raetian Limes

Further reading

Illustration acknowledgements

Open Access Journal: Monuments et mémoires de la Fondation Eugène Piot

2026-06-09T18:10:46+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 26 July 2014, updated 9 June 2026]

Monuments et mémoires de la Fondation Eugène Piot
ISSN: 1148-6023
eISSN - 2260-815X

Eugène Piot (1812-1890), esthète et archéologue, qui voulait contribuer au développement de la recherche et du goût dans le vaste domaine de l’art depuis le temps des anciennes cultures de l’Orient jusqu’à la Renaissance, légua sa fortune à l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. La Compagnie du quai de Conti décida alors de publier, grâce aux revenus de la Fondation Piot, des Monuments et Mémoires consacrés aux études d’art et d’archéologie, collection très richement illustrée dont le premier volume parut en 1894.

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Le centième tome [liminaire]

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Roland Recht

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Deux nouvelles images des jardins d’Adonis : tradition et parodie [article]

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Gianpaolo Nadalini

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Deux statues antiques redécouvertes à Abbeville : histoire des collections et étude archéologique [article]

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Martin Szewczyk

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La Conquête de Jérusalem à Angers et la Vengeance du Christ dans l’art de la tapisserie du XVe siècle [article]

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Monica Stucky-Schürer

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Une collection méconnue : les manuscrits persans du Musée Guimet [article]

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Francis Richard

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Une parcelle au coeur de l’histoire : la parcelle de l’an IV [article]

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Jean-Pierre Babelon

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MediterrÁneo Antiguo. El legado del Próximo Oriente y Egipto

2026-06-09T17:46:34+00:00

MediterrÁneo Antiguo. El legado del Próximo Oriente y Egipto

Bienvenido a Mediterráneo Antiguo

Sumérgete en la fascinante historia de las civilizaciones del Mediterráneo Antiguo y descubre el legado del Próximo Oriente y Egipto. En nuestro blog, encontrarás artículos informativos y emocionantes sobre este apasionante periodo de la historia.

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BOOK: Pierre ALLORANT & Walter BADIER, La Dissolution. De Napoléon à Macron [Épures, ed. Pierre-Henry FRAGNE] (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2026), 144 p. ISBN 9791041310647, € 10

2026-06-09T12:25:00+00:00

(image source: Presses universitaires de Rennes)

Abstract:

La dissolution a souvent été présentée comme un outil nécessaire au contrôle des parlementaires, un instrument utile à la résolution des crises entre l’exécutif et le législatif, et une arme de dissuasion contre l’instabilité gouvernementale. La dissolution remet au peuple le soin de trancher le différend entre les pouvoirs. Porter un regard de longue durée sur cette histoire apparaît indispensable à la compréhension de la crise politique et institutionnelle que nous vivons aujourd’hui. Dispositif absent des constitutions révolutionnaires, la dissolution apparaît avec Bonaparte, mais n’est utilisée qu’avec les monarchies censitaires du premier XIXe siècle. Longtemps perçue comme incompatible avec la République parlementaire, la dissolution est écartée entre 1877 et 1955. La crise actuelle incite à repenser la Ve République, conçue par Michel Debré pour le général de Gaulle en 1958.

SSRN PAPER: Alli ORR LARSEN & Thomas MCSWEENEY, "Medieval Treatises and the Judicial Search for a Useable Past" (Willam & Mary Law School Research Paper nr. 09-514)

2026-06-09T07:00:00+00:00

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Abstract:

The Supreme Court’s recent turn to history and tradition has prompted a renewed interest in the far distant past – the laws and customs of the Middle Ages. But medieval treatises are full of traps for the unwary. This article – a joint enterprise between a medieval legal historian and a Supreme Court scholar – carefully explores what makes these treatises uniquely complicated and easy to get wrong. To start, they are written in Latin and, sometimes, Old French. In many instances, the underlying medieval decisions they reference are destroyed and gone forever. Because there was no photocopier or even printing press back then, treatises often come in competing versions reflecting not only multiple authors but also successive copyists who made substantive changes. And legal texts were just different in the thirteenth century. Treatises were used for purposes as diverse as passing on cultural values, advising rulers on how to govern, and even teaching people the ideals of friendship. Put simply: medieval law is hard to find, hard to read, and even harder to put into context. For the American judge or law clerk who is strapped for time but wants to make a point about a long tradition, the understandable temptation is to reach for an authority like a medieval treatise that feels familiar. After all, modern legal treatises (think Wright and Miller) are recognized as trustworthy authorities to cite. And today translated versions of medieval treatises are easy to find digitally. But that ease of access and familiarity of authority are illusory. Often the very things that make these medieval texts feel familiar to modern readers would have made them idiosyncratic to thirteenth century audiences. Our goal in this article is to raise the caution flag for judicial consumption of medieval treatises: a user-friendly useable past can lead modern lawyers and jurists astray and should not be consumed without scrutiny and care.

Read more here: DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6276360.

(source: Law & Humanities Blog)

Militarisierung der Politikwissenschaft? Kommentar zu Astrid Sévilles ZPTh-Beitrag „Kitsch und Krise“

2026-06-09T07:00:47+00:00

Vor Kurzem ist die neue Ausgabe der Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie (ZPTh) erschienen! Das aktuelle Heft ist mit einer Reihe spannender Beiträge gefüllt: Unter der Rubrik „Abhandlungen“ diskutiert Kolja Lindner verschiedene Perspektiven materialistischer Eurozentrismuskritik, und Finn Starken untersucht in seinem Aufsatz die Frage: „Wie stabil ist Rawls‘ Modell der Eigentumsdemokratie?“

Neben diesen beiden Abhandlungen versammelt das Heft zudem drei essayistische „Standpunkte“ zum Thema „Lost in emancipation. Das Ende vom Ende der großen Erzählungen“ – eingeleitet von Frauke Höntzsch. Fast 50 Jahre nachdem Jean-François Lyotard in seinem Buch „La condition postmoderne“ (1979) das „Ende der großen Erzählungen“ diagnostizierte, gehen Walter Reese-Schäfer, Astrid Séville und Sara Gebh in ihren Beiträgen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven der These vom gegenwärtigen „Ende des Endes der großen Erzählungen“ nach. Astrid Sévilles Essay „Kitsch und Krise“ haben wir für die Debatte auf dem Theorieblog ausgewählt. Er steht damit zugleich hier kostenlos zum Download zur Verfügung.

Außerdem enthält die aktuelle Ausgabe ein Interview von Christian Marks mit Nikita Dhawan zum Thema „Die Aufklärung und Europa zwischen Versprechen und Verhängnis“ sowie zwei besondere „Ideengeschichtliche Fundstücke“: eine Rezension Carl Schmitts zu Otto Kirchheimers Buch „Political Justice. The Use of Legal Procedures for Political Ends“ (1961) mit einem Kommentar von Hubertus Buchstein, sowie einen Wiederabdruck von fünf Briefen Robert A. Dahls mit einer Einleitung von Stefan Meyer. Das Heft schließt mit einem Nachruf auf Michael Becker (1958-2024) von Hans-Joachim Lauth.

Wir freuen uns sehr, dass Albrecht Koschorke mit einem Kommentar zum Beitrag von Astrid Séville die ZPTh-Debatte auf dem Theorieblog im Folgenden eröffnen wird. Astrid Séville wird später in Form einer Replik darauf antworten. Wie immer sind alle herzlich eingeladen, in den Kommentarspalten mitzudiskutieren! Wir wünschen eine gute Lektüre und übergeben nun das Wort an Albrecht Koschorke.

Militarisierung der Politikwissenschaft? Kommentar zu Astrid Sévilles ZPTh-Beitrag „Kitsch und Krise“

„Siegen lernen“. Astrid Sévilles Text endet auf einem starken Akkord. Allerdings ist es ein Zitat. Sie zitiert Karl Schlögels Frankfurter Friedenspreisrede 2025, wo es heißt, „uns Europäern“ sei aufgegeben, von der Ukraine zu lernen: „furchtlos und tapfer sein, vielleicht auch siegen lernen“. Selbst bei Schlögel ist das Wörtchen „vielleicht“ beigefügt. Man muss sich offenkundig in den Heroismus, der das Gebot der Stunde sein soll, erst noch hineinfinden. Bewunderung für die Unbeugsamkeit der Ukrainer in ihrem Existenzkampf gegen den russischen Terror ist das eine, sich ihren Kampfeswillen zueigen zu machen eine andere Sache. Solange wir diesen Schritt nicht gehen, meint Séville, drehen wir uns rhetorisch im Kreis; wir verharren als passive Zuschauer des Geschehens in moralisierender Gefühligkeit und im Kitsch.

Aber was würde es heißen, sich in der geforderten Weise mit der Ukraine zu identifizieren? Befindet sich Europa als ganzes in einer vergleichbaren Bedrohungslage? Stehen die Russen, wie Andrij Melnyk, der frühere ukrainische Botschafter in Deutschland, in einem seiner eindringlichen Appelle erklärte, demnächst vor Berlin? Rechtfertigen solche Alarmrufe eine Aufrüstung gigantischen Ausmaßes, die nur durch massive zusätzliche Verschuldung (notdürftig als „Sondervermögen“ beschönigt) finanziert werden kann – mitsamt den absehbaren politischen Verwerfungen, wenn die dadurch an anderen Stellen erzwungenen Etatkürzungen fühlbar werden?

Darüber schweigt Séville sich aus. Sie beanstandet den „Verfassungssentimentalismus“ des deutschen Verteidigungsministers Boris Pistorius, der sich zu der Aussage verstiegen hat, dass er in das Grundgesetz „verliebt“ sei; aber derselbe Politiker erhebt eben auch die Forderung nach „Kriegstüchtigkeit“, und das ist die andere Seite der Medaille. Wie steht es, könnte man fragen, um den Ertüchtigungskitsch, der immer größere Teile des politisch-medialen Establishments ergreift, und um dessen politische Folgen?

Erstaunlich schnell, fast reflexartig, hat die Logik eines erneuerten Kalten Krieges sich der Denkweisen im Westen wie im Osten bemächtigt. Allerdings unter umgekehrten ideologischen Vorzeichen: Aus dem Osten kommt jetzt der Faschismus, nicht die rote Gefahr, und was vor gerade einmal zwei Generationen die „fünfte Kolonne“ war, die im Sinne Moskaus die westliche Geschlossenheit unterminierte, sind heute die „Putin-Versteher“. Sozialdemokraten und einstmals friedensbewegte Grüne treiben im Verbund mit den Konservativen die Politik der Zeitenwende voran, während ausgerechnet AfD-Chef Tino Chrupalla eine „Entspannungspolitik“ fordert. Gleichzeitig wird in großem Stil die Vergangenheit umgeschrieben: Die militärische Zurückhaltung, die sich Europa nach zwei Weltkriegen auferlegt hat, erscheint inzwischen, von der Trump-Administration erfolgreich souffliert, als egoistische Nutznießerschaft im Machtschatten der USA, die lange Friedensperiode als Illusion, aus der wir unsanft in die geopolitischen Realitäten erwachen.

Die Frage, wie sich Europas liberale Demokratien in einem zusehends feindlichen Umfeld behaupten, hat indessen nicht nur diese außen- und weltpolitische Seite. Séville zufolge haben sich die progressiven Kräfte unserer Gesellschaft in ein zusätzliches Dilemma verstrickt. Postkolonial geschult und von einem tiefen Misstrauen gegen jede Art von Hegemoniestreben und missionarischer Hybris im Stil früherer Propagandisten des freien Westens erfüllt, würden sie durch den Habitus des Selbstzweifels daran gehindert, gegen die Feinde der Demokratie auch im Innern kraftvoll Position zu beziehen. Ein Übermaß an Selbstkritik, meint Séville, resultiere in „Verteidigungshemmung“. Sie führt – man weiß nicht recht, ob zustimmend oder lediglich diagnostisch – Bundespräsident Steinmeier und Verteidigungsminister Pistorius an, die „Selbstbehauptung“ respektive „Mut zur Intoleranz“ fordern. Und wieder fragt man sich, was das konkret heißen soll. Wie hängt die Militarisierung der deutschen Außenpolitik mit der gebotenen Verteidigung demokratisch-rechtsstaatlicher Institutionen im Innern zusammen? Séville stellt zwischen beidem nur eine suggestive Verbindung her.

Es spricht ein Tatendrang aus ihren Zeilen, der selbst nicht recht weiß, wie er aus dem beschriebenen Dilemma herausfindet: „Wie lässt sich ein Publikum von möglichen Habermas- und Reckwitz-Lesern einschwören“, also von Leuten, die auf gesittet deliberative Streitkultur und Singularität bedacht sind? „Letztlich steht die Frage im Raum, ob es eine Erzählung gibt, die politisch mobilisieren kann, ohne ihrerseits apodiktisch, autoritär oder totalkollektivierend zu sein.“ Nun sind derzeit viele auf der Suche nach einer neuen großen Erzählung: Europa, die Sozialdemokratie, die Linken, die Liberalen. Tatsächlich war die Ausrufung des Endes der großen Erzählungen eine postmoderne Selbsttäuschung; solche Erzählungen sind wohlauf und reüssieren, nur eben auf der anderen Seite des politischen Spektrums – sei es als Konspirationsphantasie vom Bevölkerungstausch, sei es als Heilsgeschichte einer neu errungenen nationalen Größe. Aber muss man der narrativen ‚Ermannung‘ von rechts mit gleichen Mitteln begegnen und dadurch den ideologischen Erregungspegel nur noch weiter erhöhen?

Wer sich von der beanstandeten Bedenklichkeit nicht lossagen will, wird daran erinnern, dass historisch wie aktuell kurze Verbindungswege zwischen der nominell liberalen Verfasstheit von Staaten und ihrer Bereitschaft zu imperialistischer Machtentfaltung verlaufen. Immer wenn der Liberalismus sich bedroht glaubt – aktuell vor allem durch Migration –, zeigt er sein hässlicheres Gesicht. Überhaupt fühlt sich die freiheitliche Staatenordnung eines begünstigten Teils der Welt von außen anders an als von innen. Der Zerfall des Westens und des von ihm nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg errichteten Rahmenwerks zugunsten einer entfesselten Rivalität alter und neuer geopolitischer Mächte machen das auch für die Westeuropäer zunehmend fühlbar. Ein Großteil ihrer Malaise geht auf den Katzenjammer zurück, sich – in ironischer Erfüllung des Slogans „Ami go home“ – nicht mehr auf der Sonnenseite des US-Imperialismus zu befinden. So ist die Weltlage aus europäischer Sicht entschieden ungemütlicher geworden, was zweifellos große Herausforderungen mit sich bringt. Dadurch erübrigt sich jedoch nicht die Frage, wie der utopische Kern dessen bewahrt werden kann, was den Architekten der europäischen Einigung nach den Großkatastrophen des 20. Jahrhunderts vor Augen stand.

Man vermisst in der aktuellen Debatte, und das spiegelt sich in Sévilles Essay, eine Perspektive auf den Wert und das gestalterische Potenzial machtpolitischer Zurückhaltung. Die von Séville empfohlene Kur läuft Gefahr, gerade das Gegenteil dessen zu erreichen, was sie eigentlich bewirken will. Wer wie in alten Zeiten in einem reservierten Verhältnis zur kämpferischen Ausübung von Macht lediglich ein Zeichen von Schwäche erkennt, spielt am Ende womöglich nur der politischen Rechten mit ihrem Narrativ vom großen Endkampf in die Hände. Abhilfe schafft eher eine selbstbewusste Zivilität. Demokratie, Rechtsstaatlichkeit, Achtung der Menschenrechte, internationale Kooperation, Verurteilung von Staatsterror und Aggression sind unter Druck, aber sie stehen global weiterhin hoch im Kurs. Zum russischen Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine haben Deutschland und fast alle europäischen Länder eine klare Haltung bezogen, mit der Unterstützung Israels im Gaza-Krieg ihren moralischen Kredit aber zu großen Teilen wieder verspielt. Wäre zumal die deutsche Politik hier konsistenter, könnte sie mit einiger Sicherheit auf größeren Zuspruch im globalen Süden rechnen. Der Vorschlag einer friedlichen Allianz der Mittelmächte wird diskutiert, die als Gegenmodell zum aggressiven Hegemonialstreben Russlands, Chinas und der USA dienen kann. Handelsbündnisse bilden eine Alternative zu einem Machtvorteile durchsetzenden, häufig erpresserischen Unilateralismus. Ein ehrlicher Umgang mit den Nachwirkungen des Kolonialismus könnte zudem zukunftsträchtige Kooperationen zwischen Afrika und Europa befördern. Zugegebenermaßen ändert das alles nichts daran, dass sich realpolitisch die Handlungsspielräume Europas verringert haben und wohl weiter verringern werden. Statt einem Phantomschmerz verlorener Größe und Dominanz in der Welt nachzuhängen, könnte aber gerade ein geschwächtes Europa für den besseren Teil dessen einstehen, was einmal der freie Westen zu sein versprach. – Ich würde mir von der Politikwissenschaft mehr Phantasie in dieser Richtung erwarten.

Albrecht Koschorke ist Professor für Deutsche Literatur und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Konstanz und Extraordinary Professor an der University of Pretoria. Er arbeitet vor allem über politische Narrative. Soeben erschien: Souveränität der Vernunft. Die kulturellen Anfänge des Liberalismus (Berlin: Suhrkamp 2026).

Wells on Ecclesiastical Courts in the Early American Republic

2026-06-09T04:30:00+00:00

S. Spencer Wells has published Disciplining Conscience: Judging Ecclesiastical Courts in the Early American Republic in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities:

American Protestants during the Second Great Awakening participated in one of the largest experiments in lay judging the nation has ever seen. It was not initiated among the countless (initially property-owning) white men sitting on local juries—but amidst those determining the social and spiritual fate of fellow church members accused of wrongdoing within local congregations. In a republic lurching towards official disestablishment of church and state, questions concerning the rights of lay members to judge others’—and their own—potential relationships with the church continually bubbled to the surface. Did lay members retain authority to visit possible offenders within the home, in an effort to reclaim them before initiating a church trial which might possibly endanger their membership? Were witnesses of such trials duty-bound to speak on behalf of those brought up on charges? When confronted with the dread sentence of excommunication, who held the final power to judge the state of one’s relationship to the church, or even to God? The body as a whole, or those threatened with discipline? Such internal struggles often revolved around questions of biblical procedure and due-process, defined as a legitimate form of law in the eyes of ministers and members alike. In a world where believers espoused the “right of private judgment” as their Protestant birthright over and against the church, controversy inevitably arose in the conflicts that followed.

--Dan Ernst

Open Access Journal: The Corvus Journal of Classics and Ancient History

2026-06-08T18:19:30+00:00

januaty[First posted in AWOL 4 February 2019, updated (new URLs) 8 June 2026]

The Corvus Journal of Classics and Ancient History
ISSN: 2369-9086 (Print)
ISSN: 2369-9094 (Online)

Corvus, now in its twelfth year of publication, is an undergraduate level journal that allows students to come together to produce a highly professional undergraduate journal. Being completely student run, funded, edited, and overseen, the journal of the Carleton University Classics Society strives to improve with each passing year, while continuing to offer new insight into the realm of the Classics.

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Nouveaux monuments épigraphiques de Scythie mineure

2026-06-08T18:14:36+00:00

Nouveaux monuments épigraphiques de Scythie mineure

Publié le 7 juin 2026 par Th. Castelli

Aricescu, A., V. Barbu, N. Gostar, Gh. Poenaru-Bordea et A. Radulescu (1964) : Noi monumente epigrafice din Scythia Minor, Constanta [Nouveaux monuments épigraphiques de Scythie mineure].

Ce petit volume rassemble 8 articles consacrés à une centaine d’inscriptions grecques et latines de Dobroudja.

Chaque inscription est illustré et brièvement commentée.

Résumé en russe et en français.

Le livre en ligne : https://biblioteca-digitala.ro/?pub=10130-noi-monumente-epigrafice-din-scythia-minor

Expressions of Opposition to the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Sevilla, May 22-25, 2024)

2026-06-08T18:13:38+00:00

Expressions of Opposition to the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Sevilla, May 22-25, 2024)

Volume Editors: Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Rocío Gordillo Hervás, and Olivier Hekster

Impact of Empire, Volume: 52

The Roman Empire was shaped and consolidated by pro-Roman and imperialistic discourses, but also by the words and actions of its enemies and critics. Discourses and actions of opposition to Rome had an impact on how Rome was conceived and forced the Empire to react. Repressing them was one response, but other reactions were also possible. In that sense, the very enunciation of Rome and its Empire as 'enemy', or the selection of certain features of the empire against which opposition was exercised, can be interpreted as a way of shaping or consolidating the empire.

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Front Matter

Preliminary Material

Editors:
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Rocío Gordillo Hervás
, and
Olivier Hekster

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Part 1 Introduction: Origins, Destiny & Power

1 Opposition to Empire

Anti-Imperial Arguments and Actions in the Shaping of the Roman Empire

Authors:
J.M. Cortés Copete
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R. Gordillo Hervás
, and
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3–16

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2 Greek Debates about Roman Origins, Destiny, and Power

From Mithridatic Wars to the Severi

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S. Benoist

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17–33

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3 An Ancient Precedent for Contemporary Critiques of Rome

Mettius Fufetius on Rome’s origins in Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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B.A. Jerue

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34–49

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Part 2 Historiography and Opposition to Rome

4 “Tiberium in Tiberim”: Tiberius’ Opponents in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum

Author:
M. Russo

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53–69

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5 Les discours des adversaires de Rome dans les récits de guerre du I ^er siècle de notre ère: l’exemple de civilis

Author:
P. Cosme

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70–81

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6 Falsi Neronis ludibrio: The False Neros and the Idea Of Empire

Author:
G. Mitropoulos

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82–96

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7 Josephus and the Legitimate Expression of Opposition against the Roman Empire

Author:
L. Lizarzategui Elu

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97–109

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8 Alexandrian Opposition to Roman Emperors

Author:
L. Capponi

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110–127

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9 How to Construct a Discourse of Opposition to Rome—Hadrian in the Oracula Sibyllina

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J.M. Cortés Copete

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128–146

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10 Stratégies cyniques dans l'Histoire Auguste

Author:
J.R. Ballesteros

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147–165

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11 Opposing Rome’s Empire—Herodian’s Parthian World

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O. Hekster
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T. Kaizer

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166–176

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Part 3 Oppositional Discourses in Action

12 Opposing Rome: Looking for Resistance in Baeturia Turdulorum

Author:
G. Schörner

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179–198

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13 Banditry and Rebellion: Pastoral Opposition to Rome in the Thyrrenian Region

Author:
A. Llamazares Martín

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199–213

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14 A Revolt of the “Professional Class” in Rome under Commodus?

Author:
C. Bruun

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214–229

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Part 4 Opposition in Late Antiquity

15 Opposing Jupiter’s Reign: Lactantius’ Anti-Imperial Stance in His Critique of the Roman State

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16 Reacting to the Enemy: Justinian and the Pragmatic Sanction of 554

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Meters of Greek Drama

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Meters of Greek Drama

The Meters of Greek Drama database compiles metrical information (scansion) about Ancient Greek plays, so that students, scholars, dramaturgs, and performers can easily see the metrical patterns within each play, in addition to discovering statistical patterns in the use of meter throughout the corpus of Greek drama.

The most straightforward way to learn how to use the database is to begin exploring it - start with one of the plays, then tinker with the statistics. Keep the meter chart handy for quick reference.

For a more structured approach, learn more about the specific features of the website.

Meters of Greek Drama is ongoing at Washington University in St. Louis. If you have any questions or suggestions for improvement, please reach out to us here: tmoore26@wustl.edu.

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Daniel on the Affinity of Lawyers and History

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Josiah M. Daniel III has posted The Affinity of Lawyers and History: The Dallas Bar Association's Legal History Discussion Group as a Case in Point, which appears in the Journal of Texas Supreme Court History:

Legal history may be conceived as the story of the evolution of legal doctrines and rules or as the analysis of the effects of law on society and vice versa. In all events, the irreducible elements of the subject matter of the field of legal history are not only the law but also the lawyer and the judge.

To begin, the lawyer is the quintessential element because what lawyers "do" is to invoke and apply the processes of the law, either in resolving disputes or in effectuating transactions, on behalf of a client. Lawyers are the ones who know or learn what the law is in order to be able to seek to accomplish—ideally with highest ethics, not merely as an agent—the objectives of a client. Such work is known as “lawyering.”

But not only have lawyers always been key actors within the activities and events that are comprehended within the ambit of legal history but today quite a number of them are researchers and authors—legal history scholars—knowledgeable of the literature and interested in learning and creating more in publications and oral presentations. As undergraduates, many attorneys and judges majored or minored in history, but even those who studied business administration or accounting in university are often found reading and discussing legal-historical books and articles. Some even write them.

The scholarly discipline of history has been called "the art of reconstructing the past." The endeavor to do so, known as the historical method, requires, first, finding the sources. Lawyers are experienced in fact finding and determining causation, and engaging in historical research is a natural extension.

This essay argues that the multiple affinities of lawyers and judges for history are demonstrated in the legal history activates of Dallas and Texas lawyers.

--Dan Ernst

Schultz on Acts of Truth: Emotions and the Validation of Legal Knowledge

2026-06-08T16:05:51+00:00

Thomas Schultz, King's College London, University of Geneva, has published Acts of Truth: Emotions and the Validation of Legal Knowledge. Here is the abstract.

Legal scholarship presents itself as an exercise in reason: the scholar elucidates, weighs the sources, follows the argument, emotions left at the door. This Article argues that the pose is false, and consequentially so. Emotions shape not only the margins of scholarship-the topics we choose, the tone of our debates, the schools we form-but they also reach all the way into what we take to be legally valid and true. Building on Pierre Schlag's account of the aesthetics of law and on work in psychology and the philosophy of mind on the role of emotion in cognition, the Article reframes the validation of juristic truth as the product of two emotionally laden processes: epistemic decision-making, the "acts of truth" by which a proposition is accepted as valid, and epistemic negotiation, the agreements through which a community settles what counts as known. It then identifies emotions likely at work in each-beauty, the fear of death, the fear of exclusion, the needs for recognition and for toil; and, in negotiation, appreciation, affiliation, autonomy, status, and role-arguing that they carry ontological weight, helping to constitute law itself as an object of knowledge and argument. Why, then, do scholars so insistently deny them? The answer lies in a "normative alexithymia," a trained inability to read one's own emotions that leaves a community poorly equipped to see the lens through which it apprehends its object. The Article proceeds by suggestion rather than proof, aiming less to demonstrate these emotions than to make their workings visible. Its claim is that emotion has always accompanied reason in the making of legal knowledge-and that recognizing this is itself a condition of thinking well.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.

Workshop: Aufweisendes Denken – Aufweisendes Handeln. Philosophische Perspektiven auf politische Narration und demokratische Präfiguration, 21.–22.01.2027, Berlin.

2026-06-08T10:00:12+00:00

Vom 21.–22.01.27 veranstalten Stefan Herrmann und Sergej Seitz den Workshop „Aufweisendes Denken – Aufweisendes Handeln“ in Berlin. Dort sollen narrative und rhetorische Formen politischen Handelns, eben als „aufweisendes“ gegenüber diskursiv begründendem Handeln, in den Mittelpunkt gerückt werden. Als weiteren Schlüsselbegriff aufweisenden Handelns begreifen sie ‚Präfiguration‘ im Sinne einer narrativ-kreativen Formulierung von politischen Zukunftsvorstellungen. Theoretische Referenzrahmen für eine solche Perspektive könnten eine politische Phänomenologie, die Kritische Theorie, postfundamentalistische Ansätze sowie analytische Epistemologien bilden.

Abstracts von ca. 300 Wörtern können bis zum 31.07.26 bei Stefan Herrmann (stefan.herrman(at)fernuni-hagen.de) und Sergej Seitz (sergej.seitz(at)univie.ac.at) eingereicht werden. Die Beiträge sollen überdies in einem Special Issue einer einschlägigen Zeitschrift veröffentlicht werden. Einen detaillierten Call und weitere Informationen gibt es hier.

BOOK: Ignacio DE LA RASILLA, Jiangyu WANG & Congyan CAI (eds.), Histories of International Law in China All Under Heaven? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026), 688 p. ISBN 9780198888345, 170 GBP

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Abstract:

Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven? offers a groundbreaking exploration of China's engagement with international law over the past two centuries. Written by an interdisciplinary group of international law scholars and legal historians, it provides a longue durée perspective, revealing both enduring patterns and profound shifts in China's approach to the global legal order. Beginning with China's millennia-old Sino-centric worldview-rooted in the Confucian concept of Tianxia (All under Heaven)-the book traces China's evolving relationship with international law from its period of isolation to its forced entry into the Western legal system during the First Opium War (1839-1842). It examines the transformation of China's legal landscape through the fall of the Qing Dynasty (1911), the Republican era (1912-1949), and the establishment of the People's Republic of China (1949). The book explores China's relationship with international law from 1949-including through the Cultural Revolution-until the 'reform and opening-up' era and the end of the Cold War. Histories of International Law in China sheds light on often-overlooked historical episodes and key conceptual legacies shaping China's approach to the international legal order. A unique feature is its curated biographies, including multiple long-forgotten or invisible protagonists, such as pioneering women in the history and theory of international law and China. Engagingly written and meticulously researched, this volume offers invaluable insights for legal scholars and researchers interested in understanding China's historical and contemporary role in shaping and making international law.

Table of contents:

I. National Histories of International Law
1.:Histories of International Law in China: An Introduction, Ignacio de la Rasilla, Jiangyu Wang
2.:China and the Turn to the National in the History of International Law, Ignacio de la Rasilla
II. Before and Beyond the Encounter: From Sino-Centric Isolation to Defensive Acculturation to International Law
3.:International Law in China: From Ancient Times to the Encounter, Xinyu Huang
4.:The Opium Wars, Extraterritoriality and International Drug Control, Inge Van Hulle
5.:China's Early Insertion in International Law Through the Protection of its Nationals Abroad: The Rock Springs Massacre, Mimetism and External State Building, Frédéric Mégret & Wanshu Cong
6.:Lost and Found in Translation: How Europeanized International Law Became Universalized in Modern China, Wensheng Qu & Li Wan
7.:'Unequal' Relations between China, Korea, and Japan: The 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki and Extradition Treaties, Masaharu Yanagihara
8.:A History of Italian Colonialism in China at the Turn of the 20th century, Luigi Nuzzo
9.:China, the Western Standard of Civilization and The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907, Mingqian Li
III. International Law in China during the Republican Period
10.:The Republic of China and the League of Nations, Ryan Martinez Mitchell
11.:Professionalizing International Law in China During the Republican, Pasha L. Hsieh
12.:The Introduction of Soviet Theory of International Law to China: How Chinese International Lawyers Turned to Marxism, Congyan Cai and Jie Liu
13.:In the Garden of Gethsemane: US-Sino Relations in the History of International Law during the Republican Period, Christopher R. Rossi
IV. International Law in China from the New China to the Opening-Up and Reform Process
14.:China's International Law and the 'Third World' during the Revolutionary Period (1949-1978), Ignacio de la Rasilla
15.:China, the Cold War and International Law, Jiangyu Wang
16.:Towards a Principle-based International Order? the Origin of China's International Law Vocabulary in the 1950s-1960s, Yifeng Chen
17.:Two Empires: China, Russia and the Soviet Union in the History of International Law, Lauri Mälksoo
18.:China and International Law during the Cultural Revolution and Its Aftermath, Straton Papagianneas
19.:Human Rights and Democracy for All under Heaven in China: Historical Engagements with Two Challenging Principles, Eva Pils
20.:The Decolonization of Hong Kong: from the Unequal Treaties to the Basic Law, Fen Ling
21.:China's Evolving (Re-)Engagement with International Law: From the "Reform and Opening to the Outside World" to Building "Foreign-Related Rule of Law", Jacques deLisle
V. Chinese Historical Portraits in International Law
22.:Wang Chung-hui (1881-1958), Yang Liu
23.:Wellington Koo' (1888-1985), Maria Adele Carrai
24.:Zhou Gengsheng (1889-1971), Chao Wang and Guoqiang Luo
25.:Hsiang Che-chun (1892-1987), Zenghua Zhuo
26.:Li Haopei (1906-1997), Guoyong Zou and Li Jue
27.:Ni Zhengyu (1906-2003), Yayezi Hao & Hong Yu
28.:Han Depei (1911-2009), Yongping Xiao & Jue Li
29.:Wang Tieya (1913-2003), Ken Yang
30.:Qiu Shaoheng (1913-2009), Chao Wang
31.:Zhao Lihai (1916-1996), Ken Yang
32.:Chen Ti-Chiang (1917-1983), Xiaobin Xu
33.:Chinese Women in the Histories of International Law: Forgotten Names and Unfamiliar Paths, Ken Yang

CfA: WiMi-Stelle (PostDoc) in Hamburg

2026-06-08T08:00:03+00:00

Bis zum 28. Juni 2026 läuft die Bewerbungsfrist für eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in mit Schwerpunkt Politische Theorie an der Universität Hamburg (zunächst 3 Jahre, TVL E 13, 100%) . Die Stelle umfasst Aufgaben in Forschung und Lehre (5 LVS) sowie die Beiteiligung an der akademischen Selbstverwaltung. Die eigene Weiterqualifikation zum Zweck der Habilitation ist vorgesehen. Neben einer abgeschlossenen Promotion sollten Interessierte Fachkenntnisse und Interesse an politischer Philosophie, Demokratietheorie, der Theorie kollektiven Entscheidens und/oder der politischen Theoriegeschichte sowie Kenntnisse in der Berücksichtigung von Gender- und Diversity-Aspekten mitbringen. Alle weiteren Infos zu Stelle, Bewerbungsverfahren und Kontaktmöglichkeiten sind unter diesem Link zu finden.

Open Access Journal: Hypothekai: Journal of the History of Ancient Pedagogical culture

2026-06-07T20:14:01+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 10 December 2019, updated 7 June 2026]

Hypothekai: Journal of the History of Ancient Pedagogical culture
ISSN: 2587- 7127

A journal on the history of ancient pedagogical culture is a peer-reviewed international academic journal established in September 2017. The “Hypothekai” journal publishes research materials on the study, preservation and popularization of ancient pedagogical culture in its historical dynamics. Throughout its pages, within the framework of the themes identified, a wide range of topical issues of the formation of ancient education and the development of ancient educational practices in different historical periods are considered. The journal is published yearly. The languages are Russian and English. The journal’s founder is its editor.

“Hypothekai” is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediately upon publication. Our open access policy is in accordance with Chapter 70 “Copyright Law” of the Russian Civil Code and the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition - it means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. Full-text versions of articles are available for reading and non-commercial distribution under the international license "Attribution - Non-commercial use 4.0" (Creative Commons Attibution 4.0).

The information about all the articles published is archived in Russian Electronic Scientific Library and “CyberLeninka” Electronic Scientific Library. The direct URL to the journal issues and article metadata (title, author, keywords, abstracts, etc.). The articles’ full texts are stored on the journal’s server and can be accessed through this page.

The title of this collection is Hypothêkai – a polysemantic word (“instructions”, “advice”, “precepts”), which should not mislead the reader: they will not be taught by the ancient texts or tired by some clever advice. This title was suggested by Brett M. Rogers, a specialist in ancient pedagogy and lecturer at the University of Puget Sound, whose knowledge of ancient texts is leagues ahead of mine. I would like to express my deep gratitude to him for this idea as well as for our scientific discussions, during one of which he pointed to the fragments of the precepts of the centaur Kheiron “Hypothêkai of Kheiron” (“Precepts of Kheiron”) often ascribed to Hesiod. According to the legend, that lost poem of collected wisdom was passed to humans by the centaur Kheiron, the famous mentor of Achilles. The collection title just alludes to that lost work, inviting to a deep study of ancient texts. I wish to express a heartfelt gratitude to my colleague, Professor Vitaliy G. Bezrogov for his support and his inspirational insistence on the highest academic standards.

2024 Issue 8. Images of teachers and students in ancient tradition (*.pdf)
The theme of the eighth issue is “Images of the teacher and student in the ancient tradition”. The history of pedagogical culture is like a whimsical kaleidoscope of images of teachers and students: great and ordinary, divine and secular, similar and very different. Socrates, one of the most extraordinary figures of the ancient era, asserted that not everyone can be both a teacher and a student. This assertion continues to resonate in modern pedagogical discourse, where teachers and students have acquired new rights and responsibilities.

2026 Issue 10. The Upbringing and Education of the Hero: the Adult World and the World of Adolescence (*.pdf)

The theme of this issue is “The Upbringing and Education of the Hero: the Adult World and the World of Adolescence.” The issue emphasizes that the education and upbringing of the hero – understood in the broadest sense of the word – has always taken place in a space shaped by the encounter of two worlds: the world of adults and the world of the young who are coming of age. The former sought to instruct the latter, while the latter were not always willing to accept such guidance, often preferring to learn from their own mistakes. For centuries, this dynamic created a persistent tension between the two worlds –a tension without which new generations of heroes could hardly have emerged.

Preface (*.pdf)

Section 1. The formation of the hero: entering the adult world

Heroes educated and uneducated: spartan kings and αγωγη (Igor E. Surikov) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2026-10-10-15-48
The nursery of heroes: macedonian institute of "royal youths" in the age of Philip II and Alexander the Great (Alexander A. Kleymeonov) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2026-10-10-49-72

Section 2. The formation of the hero:entering the adult world
The world of adults and the world of adolescence: the education of the hero in Sophocles’ Philoctetes (Victoria K. Pichugina) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2026-10-10-73-109
Formation of a victorious athlete (Tatiana B. Gvozdeva) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2026-10-10-110-131

Heroes of faith in the pre-constantinian christian church (Alexey V. Kargaltsev) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2026-10-10-132-149
Section 3. The heroic in the world of education: a dialogue of cultures
The Crisis – Kairos – Gnosis Triad as a Method for Reconstructing the Heroic in Education: Ancient and Biblical Contexts (Alexander G. Bermus) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2026-10-10-150-178
Section 4. Educational materials
Intellectual Traditions of Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Course Syllabus for the Master’s Degree Program in History, code 520800) (Maya S. Petrova)

2025 Issue 9. Ancient education as a worldview (*.pdf)

The theme of this issue is “Ancient education as a worldview.” The concept of the world as a space for lifelong learning and of humans as perpetual students allows us to view pedagogical culture in its broadest sense. A defining characteristic of ancient pedagogy was that education was regarded both as the foundation of knowledge and as a means of understanding the world. The educational journey of an ancient Greek, and later a Roman, was shaped by existing perceptions of the world and one’s place within it, as well as by pedagogical traditions seen as fundamental to cosmic order.

Preface (*.pdf)

Section 1. Representations of the world in ancient educational culture

The Shield in Sophocles' Tragedy "Ajax" and the Materiality of the Heroic World: To Instruct and Protect (Victoria K. Pichugina) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2025-9-9-14-50
The Foundations of Early Latin Christian Teachers’ Worldview
(Alexey V. Kargaltsev) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2025-9-9-51-60
The Hellenic World and the Barbarian World in the Ideology of Panhellenism (Vladimir A. Boldin) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2025-9-9-61-72
Section 2. Education through great texts: worldview as a dialogue of traditions
Concerning the Influence of the Iliad on the Worldview of Alexander the Great (Alexander A. Kleymenov) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 110.32880/2587-7127-2025-9-9-73-101
"The Myth of the Cave" in the Space and Time of the Exegetical Midrash (Alexander G. Bermus)(*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2025-9-9-102-130
Section 3. The world as a space of discipleship: concepts, teachings, and ideas
Calcidius on the Conformity of the Platonist Doctrine and Jewish Philosophy (in Tim. 256: 3-11) (Maya S. Petrova) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2025-9-9-131-144
Cassiodoreus, Augustine, and Macrobius on the Individual Soul
(on the “Consistency” between Pagan Philosophy and Christian Teaching) (Philipp V. Petrov) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2025-9-9-145-158
Christianization and Education in Late Antique Britain (6th–8th centuries) (Maxim M. Gorelov) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2025-9-9-159-177

2024 Issue 8. Images of teachers and students in ancient tradition (*.pdf)

The theme of the eighth issue is “Images of the teacher and student in the ancient tradition”. The history of pedagogical culture is like a whimsical kaleidoscope of images of teachers and students: great and ordinary, divine and secular, similar and very different. Socrates, one of the most extraordinary figures of the ancient era, asserted that not everyone can be both a teacher and a student. This assertion continues to resonate in modern pedagogical discourse, where teachers and students have acquired new rights and responsibilities.

Contents of the eighth issue (*.pdf)
Preface (*.pdf)

Section 1. Scholarly paths of great and ordinary

Likeness of an Athenian tyrannical son. Young Hipocrates in Plato's Protagoras (Àngel Pascual-Martin) (*.pdf) [In English] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2024-8-8-14-35 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Ancient Greek theater as a school for the city: why Socrates was not a theatergoer (Victoria Pichugina) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2024-8-8-36-54 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Galen as representative of Greek paideia of the second sophistic era
(Irina Prolygina) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2024-8-8-55-73 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Section 2. Divine teachers and their students

The concept of the soul of Christian teachers of the Early Church (Alexey Kargaltsev) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2024-8-8-74-88 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Christ as Teacher in classical European iconography (Zinaida A. Lurie) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2024-8-8-89-109 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Section 3.Teacher's image in the context of historiography

Macrobius in english-language research (Maya Petrova) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2024-8-8-110-134 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Augustine's Literary Legacy as Research Focus in Contemporary Scholarship (Philipp Petrov) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2024-8-8-135-167 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Breviarium rerum gestarum populi romani in Russian and foreign historiography: concerning Festus' sources (Ekaterina Buzdalina) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2024-8-8-168-183 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

2023 Issue 7. Sophists and education (*.pdf)

The theme of the issue is “Sophists and Education”. The question of whether the sophists were unique mentors can be called eternal. The multitude of definitions of the sophists and their numerous typologies have opened and continue to open many paths for seeking answers.The issue focuses on the activities of representatives of the first and second sophistics, as well as the “sophistic echo” that rolled through the centuries and reflected on the scientific and educational tradition in the 21st century.

Contents of the seventh issue (*.pdf)
Preface (*.pdf)

Section 1. Sophists as teachers, and their students

Education in the city through laughter and tears: sophistic speeches in Euripides' “Medea” and Aristophanes' “Clouds” (Victoria Pichugina) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2023-7-7-16-44 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Pepaideumenos, or What it means to be educated in the era of the Second Sophistic (Elena Alymova) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2023-7-7-45-58 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
A pagan sophist and Christian bishops: correspondence between Libanius and Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium, and Optimus, Bishop of Antioch in Pisidia. Translation and Comments (Nikolai Winogradow) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract]10.32880/2587-7127-2023-7-7-59-74 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Section 2. Sophistry and the rhetorical educational ideal

Apologist Arnobius, a Christian rhetorician from Sicca Veneria (Alexey Kargaltsev) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract]10.32880/2587-7127-2023-7-7-75-89 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Educating the sovereign: court teachers of the heirs of the roman emperors of the late 4th century – the first half of the 5th century (Michail Vedeshkin)(*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract]10.32880/2587-7127-2023-7-7-90-146 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
On Galen's medical rhetoric (Irina Prolygina) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract]10.32880/2587-7127-2023-7-7-147-158 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Section 3. The multifaceted nature of sophistry: retrospective and prospective approaches

Sophists in humanistic and reformation propaganda (Zinaida Lurie) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract]10.32880/2587-7127-2023-7-7-159-181 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Sophistry in the writings of Miguel De Unamuno: between politics and pedagogy (Astine Ovsepyan) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract]10.32880/2587-7127-2023-7-7-182-192 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Midrash and sophism in the context of transformation scientific and educational traditions in the 21st century (Alexander Bermous) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract]10.32880/2587-7127-2023-7-7-193-218 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

2022 Issue 6. Medical Education in Antiquity(*.pdf)

The theme of the issue is "Medical Education in Antiquity." The issue consists of three parts and brings together articles on the ways of accumulating and transferring medical knowledge in the space of the ancient city. The following questions are covered in this issue: medical education and ancient mythological history, the pedagogical aspect of ancient body care, diseases and methods of educational therapy, the great teachers of medicine, their educational texts and/or the medical schools they founded, the theory and practice of studying medicine in the ancient world, features of the philosophical and pedagogical consideration of the medical landscape of Antiquity. This issue is conceptually linked to the first academic seminar on the history of pedagogical culture organized by the Department of Humanities of the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (November 8, 2021).

Contents of the sixth issue (*.pdf)
Preface (*.pdf)

Section 1. Accumulation and transfer of medical knowledge in Antiquity
On the Role of Research Travel in Medical Education in the 2nd – 3d Centuries AD (Irina V. Prolygina) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2022-6-6-17-39 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
On Medicine, Physicians, and Healers in Ancient Rome (Maya S. Petrova) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2022-6-6-40-77 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Section 2. The great teachers of medicine
Cheiron as a Mentor in Medicine to Achilles and Asclepius: the Pedagogical Mission of an Urban Centaur (Victoria K. Pichugina) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2022-6-6-78-104 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Iatrosophist Zeno and Medical Schools of Alexandria in the Fourth Century (Michail A. Vedeshkin) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2022-6-6-105-128 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Section 3. Disesse in Antiouity from the perspective of archaeology, philology and history of pedagogy
“Plague” in Thucydides and its Impact on Paideia (Andrej Yu. Mozhajsky) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2022-6-6-129-144 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Plague of Cyprian: Christians in the Urban Environment in the Era of Persecution and Epidemics (Alexey V. Kargaltsev) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2022-6-6-145-157 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)
Forms of Plague in Procopius of Caesarea (Procop. De bellis. IV.14) and Evagrius Scholasticus (Evagrius. Hist. ecc. IV.29): On the Development of Clinical Medicine in the Eastern Roman Empire in the Fourth Century (Anton V. Zibaev, Valentina F. Zhukova) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2022-6-6-158-186 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

2021 Issue 5. Educational Texts in Antiquity (*.pdf)

The theme of the fifth issue is "Educational Texts in Antiquity". This issue reveals what ancient Greeks and Romans as well as people living in the territory of entire ancient oecumene were reading and cramming up to the 6th century AD.

The tourth issue is available in libraries receiving a compulsory copy through the Russian book chamber, the library of the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, the library of the Leo Tolstoy Tula State Pedagogical University, the library of the Higher School of Economics.

Contents of the fifth issue (*.pdf)
Preface (.pdf*)

Section 1. "Works of pedagogues". Educational texts and their authors

Ancient didactic astronomical texts (Andrew V. Fesenko) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2021-5-5-19-42 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Refiguring Odysseus’ Apologue in Plato’s Protagoras (Àngel Pascual-Martin)(*.pdf) [In English] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2021-5-5-43-63 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Unknown Ancient sources of Byzantine military treatises (Alexander K. Nefyodkin) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI: 10.32880/2587-7127-2021-5-5-64-82 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

On the translation of Donatus' Ars Grammatica (I.1-6) (Maya S. Petrova (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2021-5-5-83-99 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Section 2. "Works of students". Educational texts and their addresses.

Hippias’s “Collection” — a handbook for a man of wisdom (Roman V. Svetlov) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2021-5-5-100-112 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

The influence of Xenophon’s didactic writings on the military
leadership practice of Alexander the Great (Аlexander А. Kleymeonov) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2021-5-5-113-140 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Galen. On bones for beginners (Irina V. Prolygina) (*.pdf) [In Russian] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2021-5-5-141-171 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Section 3. "Works of the descendants". Educational texts from the perspective of archaeology, philology and history of pedagogy

Thebes, Amphiaraus and Alcmaeon in Pindar’s Pythian 8: instruction to the winner (Andrej Yu. Mozhajsky) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2021-5-5-172-190 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Cicero’s writings as learning texts for humanities students: from Augustus Wilkins to Cicero Digitalis (Victoria Pichugina, Emiliano Mettini, Yana Volkova) (*.pdf) [In English] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2021-5-5-191-213 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Juan Luis Vives on the use of Ancient literature in education
(Nina V. Revyakina) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2021-5-5-214-235 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Social upbringing and an example of Antiquity in the writings of J.J. Rousseau (Sergey V. Zanin) (*.pdf) [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2021-5-5-236-247 Abstract and keywords (*.pdf)

Reviews

Review of the Book “Adolf Trendelenburg. Outlines of Logic [Elementa Logices Aristoteleae]” (Alexander G. Bermus) (*.pdf) [In Russian] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2021-5-5-248-255

List of contributors (*.pdf)

2020 Issue 4. Education of a warrior in Greece and Rome(.*pdf)

Open Access Journal: Protokolle zur Bibel

2026-06-07T17:38:57+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 19October 2016, updated 7 June 2026]

Protokolle zur Bibel
ISSN: 1996-0042
ISSN: 2412-2467

„Protokolle zur Bibel“ ist eine bibelwissenschaftliche Fachzeitschrift, die von der ArgeAss herausgegeben und zur Zeit von Dr. Agnethe Siquans, Dr. Veronika Burz-Tropper und Dr. Werner Urbanz betreut wird. Sie widmet sich in jedem Heft einem bestimmten thematischen Schwerpunkt. Dabei werden sowohl Forschungsüberblicke als auch neuere Forschungsergebnisse zu einzelnen biblischen Texten und Themen einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht. Die Autorinnen und Autoren bieten damit einerseits den Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus dem Bereich der Bibelwissenschaften die Möglichkeit einer Auseinandersetzung, andererseits wenden sie sich in verständlicher Sprache auch an all jene, die an einer näheren Beleuchtung eines bestimmten Themas interessiert sind.

Wir danken dem Verlag Aleph-Omega sowie dem Verlag Österreichisches Katholisches Bibelwerk und allen Autorinnen und Autoren für die Zustimmung zur Veröffentlichung der Beiträge der Jahrgänge 1-23 auf dieser Website.

Leadership in biblischen und patristischen Texten
Bd. 34 Nr. 2 (2025)

Veröffentlicht: 2025-12-12

Artikel

Führung, Fest und Fasten. Biblische Strategien der Leitung

Maria Brader

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Das hörende Herz Salomos oder Führungskompetenz aus der geistigen Dimension des Menschseins. Ein exegetischer und existenzanalytischer Blick auf 1 Kön 3,1–15

Edith Petschnigg

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Xanthippes Schwestern. Phil 4,2–3 und die Leitungsfunktionen in der Gemeinde von Philippi

Karl Matthias Schmidt

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Wunderweiber? Eine patriarchale Nachkorrektur der charismatischen Witwenrollen (1 Tim 5,3–16)

Halyna Schweizer

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Short-Paper-Beiträge der AGAT-Tagung 2024 "Machtdiskurse in den Psalmen"
Bd. 34 Nr. 1 (2025)

PZB 33-2
Bd. 33 Nr. 2 (2024)

Exploring Space
Bd. 33 Nr. 1 (2024)

Festheft für Martin Hasitschka SJ zum 80. Geburtstag
Bd. 32 Nr. 2 (2023)

PZB 32-1
Bd. 32 Nr. 1 (2023)

PZB 31-2
Bd. 31 Nr. 2 (2022)

PZB 31,1
Bd. 31 Nr. 1 (2022)

PZB 30-2: Psalmen und Jesaja
Bd. 30 Nr. 2 (2021)

Schwerpunkt Jesaja
Bd. 30 Nr. 1 (2021)

Festheft Franz D. Hubmann
Bd. 29 Nr. 2 (2020)

Gott(es-Bilder)
Bd. 29 Nr. 1 (2020)

Migration – Wie nah ist uns das Fremde?
Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2019)

Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (2019)

Bd. 27 Nr. 2 (2018)

Bd. 27 Nr. 1 (2018)

Bd. 26 Nr. 2 (2017)

Bd. 26 Nr. 1 (2017)

Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2016)

Bd. 25 Nr. 1 (2016)

Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (2015)

Bd. 24 Nr. 1 (2015)

Bd. 23 Nr. 2 (2014)

Schwerpunktthema: Was ist Weisheit?

Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2014)

Schwerpunktthema: Rezeption der Bibel III

Bd. 22 Nr. 2 (2013)

Schwerpunktthema: Rezeption der Bibel II

1-25 von 68 weiter

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Open Access Journal: Miscellanees d'ancient arabe

2026-06-07T17:31:13+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 15 July 2019, updated 7 June 2026]

Miscellanees d'ancient arabe

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.I

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.II

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.III

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.IV

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.IX

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.V

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.VI

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.VII

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.VIII

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.X

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.XI

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.XII

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.XIII

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.XIV

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.XIX

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.XV

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.XVI

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.XVII

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.XVIII

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.XX

Miscellanées d'ancient arabe v.XXI

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Open Access Journal: Anatolia antiqua. Eski Anadolu

2026-06-07T17:17:11+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 6 June 2014, updated 7 June 2026]

Anatolia antiqua. Eski Anadolu

ISSN: 1018-1946

ISSN électronique: 2823-1090

Anatolia Antiqua est publiée chaque année par l’Institut français d’études anatoliennes. Depuis 1988, la revue présente les travaux d’archéologie dans l’espace anatolien, de la Préhistoire à la période seljoukide. Les numéros antérieurs à 2013 sont présents sur Persée.

Index

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XXXIII | 2025

ISBN 978-2-36245-088-4

Olympia Bobou, John Healey et Rubina Raja

Revisiting Edessa’s Funerary Portrait Habit [Texte intégral]

Olivier Casabonne et Didier Laroche (collaborateur)

Caryatides/Karyatides en Asie Mineure et Grèce [Texte intégral]

Femmes porteuses et plantes bulbeuses : L’imaginaire religieux et la réversibilité de la vie et de la mort

Yusuf Sezgin et Gözde Şakar

A Plastic Vase in the Form of an Actor from the New Bouleuterion of Aigai [Texte intégral]

Mehmet Ali Kocabaş, Prof. Dr. Stephen Mitchell et PD Dr. Philipp Niewöhner

Filling in a Gap: Roman Votives and Gravestones as well as Early Byzantine Churches at Tavşanlı in Phrygia (1/2) [Texte intégral]

Mehmet Ali Kocabaş, Prof. Dr. Stephen Mitchell et PD Dr. Philipp Niewöhner

Filling in a Gap: Roman Votives and Gravestones as well as Early Byzantine Churches at Tavşanlı in Phrygia (2/2) [Texte intégral]

Chroniques des travaux archéologiques en Turquie 2022

Claire Barat, Lorenzo d’Alfonso, Emine Köker Gökçe, Jean-François Pichonneau, Alvise Matessi, Alessio Mantovan, Braden Cordivari, Chamsia Sadozaï et Louise Bruneau

Porsuk – Zeyve Höyük : Rapport préliminaire de la campagne 2022 [Texte intégral]

Olivier Henry, İpek Dağli, Görkem Çimen, Anaïs Lamesa, Lucas Sabatier, Isabelle Hasselin Rous, Ragnar Hedlund, Jesper Blid, Jeanne Capelle, Anna Sitz, Raphaëlle Chevallier, Clémence Pagnoux, Baptiste Vergnaud, Naomi Carless Unwin, Damla Üstünel, Christophe Bost, Fabrice Charlier, Nicolas Lamare, Frédérique Marchand-Beaulieu, Mohamed Sassi, Alina Streinu et Alexandra Spühler

Labraunda 2022 – Rapport préliminaire [Texte intégral]

Çiğdem Maner, A. Emre Kuruçayirli, Rula Shafiq, Hasan Peker et Gökçe Öztürk

A New Start at Kayalıpınar: 2022 Field Season [Texte intégral]

Martin Seyer, Philip M. Bes, Dávid Zs. Schwarcz, Nikolaus Schindel, Alexandra Dolea, Gerhard Forstenpointner, Danai Kafetzaki, Ceyda Öztosun, Hakan Öniz, Mercan Helvacikara, Zeynep Kuban, Bilge Ar, Umut Almaç et Görkem Günay

The Excavation at Limyra (Lycia) 2022: Preliminary Report [Texte intégral]

Berkay Dinçer, Serkan Şahin et Göknur Karahan

West Afyonkarahisar (Turkey) Palaeolithic Survey 2022, Field Methods and First Results [Texte intégral]

Abdulkadir Özdemir

Elazığ Prehistoric Archaeological Survey (EPAS) 2022 – Harput Plateau and Elazığ Plain: A Preliminary Report [Texte intégral]

Asil Yaman, Koray Konuk, Anna Sitz, Taylan Doğan, Merve Yeşil, İlayda Alikaya, Dilara Taki, Münire Rumeysa Çakan, İbrahim Ulu, Koray Günyaşar, Aslıhan Güçlü, Aslıhan Şentürk, Mutlu Karadağ, Alper Serhan Daltekin et Mehmet Serhat Aydemir

Preliminary Report on the 2022 Fieldwork at Phoenix [Texte intégral]

XXXII | 2024
XXXI | 2023
XXX | 2022
XXIX | 2021
XXVIII | 2020
XXVII | 2019
XXVI | 2018
XXV | 2017
XXIV | 2016
XXIII | 2015
XXII | 2014

Tous les numéros

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Open Access Journal: PHILIA. International Journal of Ancient Mediterranean Studies

2026-06-06T20:58:26+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 5 February 2024, updated 6 June 2026]

PHILIA. International Journal of Ancient Mediterranean Studies

ISSN: 2149-505X
E-ISSN: 3062-2506
DOI: 10.36991/PHILIA

“PHILIA. International Journal of Ancient Mediterranean Studies” is a new and innovative journal in its wider outlook, covering both the entire Mediterranean and a more extensive range of specialist subjects including epigraphy, papyrology, numismatics, historical geography, archaeology, prosopography, social, economic, military or religious history. Peer-reviewed, the journal is intended to be an international publication platform for new insights into the most varied aspects of ancient Mediterranean cultures. Articles are accepted to publishing process in Turkish, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. All articles in languages other than Turkish include a Turkish summary.

Vol. 11 (2025)

Article

I.Magnesia 359: un fragment de procès-verbal du VIe siècle

Denis Feissel (Author)

1-14

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Inschriften aus Milet III: Neufunde und Addenda 2024

Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, Philip Egetenmeier, Ann Lauren Osthof (Author)

15-35

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Anmerkungen zu einer Inschrift aus Mopsuhestia (I.Cilicie 87)

Peter Herz (Author)

36-45

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Seleucid Bronze Coinage from the Ödemiş Museum

Noah Kaye, Merve Sarılar Özdemir (Author)

46-84

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Neue Inschriften aus Nikaia XIX. Ein ländlicher Demos, sein Patron und Meter Skogene

Hüseyin Sami Öztürk, Ferit Baz (Author)

85-95

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Παραστάς und προμετώπιον in den Inschriften von Amyzon

Elia Schnaible (Author)

96-100

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Neue Patriai in Milet mit Grundbesitz auf Lepsia. Anmerkungen zu I.Didyma Suppl. 679 und IG XII 4, 4, 3897

Julian Gabriel Schneider (Author)

101-106

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Die Moagetiden von Kibyra und ihre Nachbarn: pisidische Lokaldynasten in der Kabalis, der Milyas und der Ebene von Tabai vom 3. bis 1. Jh. v.u.Z.

Benjamin Schrott (Author)

107-188

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Zu urindogermanisch *sū- und einem Toponym in Lykien

Diether Schürr (Author)

189-194

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An Eventful Tenure: Aristomenes, Hierapolos of Telos, and Aglokritos, Rhodian Priest of Halios in 223/2 BC

Stella Skaltsa (Author)

195-206

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A New Epigram from the Region of Philadelpheia

Peter Thonemann (Author)

207-210

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Topos Inscriptions from the Theatre of Aizanoi

Ahmet Türkan (Author)

211-237

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Archives

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Open Access Journal: FuturoClassico FCl

2026-06-06T19:37:57+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 19 December 2022, updated 6 June 2026]

FuturoClassico FCl
ISSN: 2465-0951

La rivista «FuturoClassico» è emanazione del Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca di ‘Studi sulla Tradizione’ (Università di Bari-Università della Repubblica di San Marino-Università di Padova), nato nel 2013, per promuovere l’aggregazione di studiosi dei più disparati ambiti delle Humanities intorno al tema della tradizione e della sopravvivenza, della fortuna e della ricezione della civiltà classica e tardoantica nelle età medievale, umanistico-rinascimentale, moderna e contemporanea

N. 1 (2015)

N. 2 (2016)

N. 3 (2017)

N. 4 (2018)

N. 5 (2019)

N. 6 (2020)

N. 7 (2021)

N. 8 (2022)

N. 9 (2023)

N. 10 (2024)

N. 11 (2025)

N. 12 (2026)

Articoli

Wordless Odysseus: Franco Piavoli’s Cinematic Adaptation of the Odyssey

Matthieu Réal

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Open Access Journal: ERAT OLIM

2026-06-06T19:35:01+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 28 September 2023, updated 6 June 2026]

ERAT OLIM

ISSN (print): 2785-1958

ISSN (online): 2785-1346

ERAT OLIM è la nuova serie del periodico scientifico Materiali e contributi per la storia della narrativa greco-latina, fondato mezzo secolo fa presso l’Istituto di Filologia Latina dell’Università degli Studi di Perugia dal prof. Luigi Pepe, che raccoglieva gli studi e le ricerche di numerosi giovani.
Il nuovo periodico avrà cadenza annuale, carattere tematico e intende raccogliere contributi sulla narrativa greco-latina in generale, ma in particolare su filoni di indagine specifici che paiono degni di essere coltivati e forieri di progressi conoscitivi.

Periodico registrato presso il Tribunale di Perugia in data 12.09.2019.
Proprietà del Direttore responsabile

1 - ERAT OLIM. Nuovi materiali e contributi per la storia della narrativa greco-latina 1 (2021)
2 - ERAT OLIM. Nuovi materiali e contributi per la storia della narrativa greco-latina 2 (2022)
3 - ERAT OLIM. Nuovi materiali e contributi per la storia della narrativa greco-latina 3 (2023)
4 - ERAT OLIM. Nuovi materiali e contributi per la storia della narrativa greco-latina 4 (2024)
5 - ERAT OLIM. Nuovi materiali e contributi per la storia della narrativa greco-latina 5 (2025)

Indice

Premessa

José C. Miralles Maldonado, Victoria Miralles Martínez
Un epigramma di Gabriele Faerno (1510-1561) dedicato al medico cremonese Omobono Offredi

Anna Maria Taragna
Malattia e miracoli di guarigione nelle riscritture agiografiche. Il caso delle redazioni della Vita di Andronico e sua moglie Atanasia, santa travestita

Paolo Varalda
Osservazioni sui racconti di guarigione dalle malattie nelle raccolte di miracoli di san Mena (BHG 1256-1269) e di Mena καλλικέλαδος (BHG 1254m)

Isabella Bonati
Vt saepe homines aegri morbo gravi… Dai latini aegri ed aegroti al greco αἶγροι: significati e technicality

Alessandra Di Pilla
De sanguine suo collyrium fecit. Cecità e guarigione tra realtà e metafora in Agostino

Giuseppe Iazzetta
La digressione ‘scientifica’ sulla pestilentia di Amida in Ammiano Marcellino (XIX 4, 2-7)

Germana Patti
Il medico svelato: analisi comparata dell’aneddoto di Democede e Atossa in Hdt. 3, 133-134,1 e in Sen. dial. 5,39,4. Contesti medici e riflessioni filosofiche

Giulio Vaccaro
Confini di lingua e di cultura. Marcello Empirico tra latino volgare e rustica romana lingua

Isabella Bonati
Note sul nomen vasis κακ(κ)άβη tra papirologia, medicina e lessicografia della cultura materiale

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Guide to Heroninos Archive

2026-06-06T19:21:23+00:00

Guide to Heroninos Archive

The data-base lists all published texts which we think belong to the Heroninos Archive (Groups 1-6 in Data conventions, or to the archives and other groups of texts related to it (as defined in Rathbone, Economic Rationalism [1991], with subsequent refinements) (Groups 7-9), or probably belong to one of those archives or groups (Group 10), including external texts which refer to the estates and people of the archives.

Published texts on the other side of Group 1-10 texts which do not belong to any of these groups, that is unrelated texts, belong to Group 11; most do not yet have their own file, and are recorded in outline under the Group 1-10 text concerned.

The purpose of this site is to allow online consultation of the data-base.

For each text, the information currently registered is that listed in the grey boxes on the right of this page (Data conventions).

For research, you can find sets of information by using the search-form and entering your desired criteria, or you can produce a complete list of texts, or lists of texts grouped in various ways by selecting options from the menu bar at the top of this page.

Weekend Roundup

2026-06-09T12:01:06+00:00

Via the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA): a recording is now available of the recent webinar on "Indigenous Legal Orders, Legal Pluralism, and the Coloniality of Method Across Comparative Law, International Law, IP, and Trade Governance."

From In Custodia Legis (the blog of the Law Library of Congress): "Introducing Chew Heong and Chinese Exclusion: A New Story Map from the Law Library"; "Supporting Art Through Hardships: The Federal Theatre Project."

ICYMI: The lower house of the Rhode Island legislature has unanimously approved a bill to rescind the state's "approval–in May 1861–of a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have permanently protected slavery from federal interference" (Providence Journal). The Supreme Court’s long history of racial profiling in immigration (SCOTUSblog). The "idea of changing the number of Supreme Court justices is hardly new" (NCC)--just ask Rachel Shelden, who says as much in Made by History (now behind a paywall at the Philadelphia Inquirer).

Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.

Open Access Journal: Revue des études anciennes

2026-06-05T18:44:02+00:00

[Originally posted 24 January 2010. Updated 5 June 2026]

Revue des études anciennes
ISSN: 0035-2004

La Revue des Études Anciennes est plus que centenaire. Fondée en 1899 par Georges Radet, elle conserve aujourd’hui encore la vocation large qu’elle possédait à l’origine, ce qui fait toujours sa particularité parmi les revues françaises ou étrangères comparables. Elle publie en effet aussi bien des articles d’histoire, d’épigraphie, d’archéologie, de littérature et de philosophie, couvrant ainsi le champ entier des études anciennes consacrées aux mondes grec et romain.

Current issue:

Sommaire du Tome 127 – 2025- N°2
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Articles

Christophe FLAMENT, Recherches sur la fiscalité minière à Athènes durant l’époque classique

Axel NEAU, Nommer les associations phéniciennes de Délos : discussions terminologiques

Hans-Ulrich WIEMER, Leaders and Masses in Polybius: Hellenistic Democracies in Action

François KIRBIHLER, Jean-Baptiste REFALO BISTAGNE, Des assises du proconsul d’Asie à Smyrne dès janvier 43 av. J.-C. ? Quelques réflexions sur l’évolution des tournées proconsulaires entre République et Empire

Catalin ANGHELINA, The Issue of Rome’s Ancestry Revisited. A New Hypothesis

Alexander THEIN, Assisting the Proscribed in 82 B.C.

Chronique

Lectures critiques

Despina CHATZIVASILIOU, Nouveaux regards sur la koiné du nord de la mer Égée et ses liens avec Athènes

Nicolas J. PREUD’HOMME, L’épigraphie grecque et latine de la Géorgie : un bilan d’étape

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San Giovenale, vol. 5, fasc. 1 : The Borgo - Excavating an Etruscan Quarter: Architecture and Stratigraphy

2026-06-05T18:37:47+00:00

San Giovenale, vol. 5, fasc. 1 : The Borgo - Excavating an Etruscan Quarter: Architecture and Stratigraphy

Carl Nylander, Börje Blomé, Lars Karlsson, Angela Bizzarro, Giuseppe Tilia, Stefano Tilia, Alessandro Tilia

ActaRom-4°, no. 26:5,1

The Etruscan city of San Giovenale was excavated by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies at Rome between 1956 and 1965. The ancient city plateau consists of two residential areas, the Acropolis and the Borgo, separated by a cut roadway. This publication deals only with the northwest corner of the Borgo (Borgo NW), which was excavated under the direction of Carl Nylander between 1961 and 1965. Here, in a "pocket" at the edge of the plateau, the Etruscans built a small metal working quarter, surrounded by a defensive terrace wall. Protected by the high tufa cliff a series of water cisterns and furnaces were installed. The excavations uncovered four major houses, Houses A, B, C and D, separated from each other by small drains and a Lane K. The houses, the drains and lanes are oriented west-east. A major well is located east and above House C. The most important settlement dates from the early Archaic period, in the late 7th century BC. The buildings were destroyed around 550/530 BC by a possible earthquake. The buildings were then rebuilt on a higher level and existed down to about 400 BC. Below the Archaic levels there are cuttings for huts and a wooden palisade.

The publication starts with an informative personal prolegomena by Carl Nylander in which the history of the excavations and the participating members are described. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the site and an analysis of the geology by Sheldon Judson. Chapter 2 gives the history of the work and Chapter 3 the settlement periods and the stratigraphy. Chapters 4 and 5 present the mainly rock-cut remains of pre-archaic structures. Chapter 6 attempts to describe the large work of levelling the area for the Archaic houses, called "The Great Fill Project". The following chapters are archaeological and architectural descriptions of the walls and houses, starting from the north: House A (Ch. 7), Houses B and C (Ch. 8), Lane K (Ch. 9) and House D (Ch. 10). The possible earthquake as the destruction of the early Archaic settlement is discussed in Chapter Eleven. Chapters Twelve and Thirteen reports briefly on the very scattered traces of later developments. The book contains several appendices: a San Giovenale bibliography 1877-2011, a catalogue of the walls at the site, an investigation of the mortar remains, a discussion on the roof-tiles and an explicatory text about the process of architectural documentation. Finally, the publication contains 43 plates with the very carefully drawn elevations and plans of the excavated buildings, originally produced by architect Börje Blomé, later digitalized and completed by Giuseppe, Stefano and Alessandro Tilia as well as by Angela Bizzarro.
ISBN 9789170421808

Hard cover

222 pages

Published 2013

Language eng

Open access (articles as PDF)

Contents |

Acknowledgements |

Ringraziamenti |

Preface |

List of illustrations |

Bibliography |

Personal prolegomena |

Introduction to the geography and geology of San Giovenale |

History of the Borgo excavations |

Excavation areas, periods and stratigraphy |

Pre-House Period I |

Pre-House Period II |

The Great Fill Project |

The northern Area A. Buildings and stratigraphy of periods 1 & 2 |

The central Area B/C/I/R |

Lane K |

The southern Area D/E/F/G/H |

An earthquake at San Giovenale in the 6th century BC (?) |

Period 3—after the earthquake |

Periods 4 & 5—later developments |

Summary |

Appendix: San Giovenale bibliography 1877–2011 |

Appendix2: Osservazioni sulle strutture murarie |

Appendix3: An investigation into ancient mortars |

Appendix4: The roof-tiles |

Appendix5: Documentation of architectural remains |

Plates |

Going against the flow : Wells,cisterns and water in ancient Greece

2026-06-05T18:34:33+00:00

Going against the flow : Wells,cisterns and water in ancient Greece

Patrik Klingborg (red.)

ActaAth-8°, no. 23

Despite the prevalent picture of the water supply in the ancient world as being dominated by fountains and aqueducts, the large number of excavated wells and cisterns show that these were the primary water sources for most individuals. Yet, little research has been done on their construction, function and use. This prompted the organization of the workshop Going against the flow. Wells, cisterns and water in ancient Greece, held at the Swedish Institute at Athens on 28–29 September 2017, and subsequent publication of the contributions in this volume. The ten papers presented here offer new evidence as well as a wide range of new perspectives on the use and function of wells and cisterns in ancient Greece. Considering the ubiquity of these installations in every type of setting during antiquity, from pan-Hellenic sanctuaries and civic centres to domestic workshops and remote farmhouses, it is hoped that the breadth of interest among the authors will allow other scholars to advance their own work further, illuminating new and exciting aspects of life in ancient Greece.

ISBN 9789179160678

Hard cover

222 pages

Published 2023

Language eng

Open access (articles as PDF)

Introduction |

Hydro-climate in the Aegean from 700 BC to AD 300 |

Water provisioning in a marine terrace environment |

The water supply in the Late Hellenistic houses of Delos |

The cisterns of the Athenian Kerameikos |

The Nemean wells |

The water supply of the Heraion of Samos |

Wells and cisterns in Greek literature |

Cisterns and loutses in a traditional Peloponnesian village |

Epilogue |

Open Access Journal: Histos: The On-line Journal of Ancient Historiography

2026-06-05T18:29:36+00:00

[First posted in AWOL 24 September 2010. Updated 5 June 2026]

Histos: The On-line Journal of Ancient Historiography
ISSN: 2046-5963

Histos, the on-line journal of ancient historiography, was founded in 1996 by John Moles, then of the University of Durham, who was also its Editor, supported by an Editorial Board of scholars from the UK and North America. Four issues appeared from 1997 to 2000, and many of the articles that appeared during those years have since become standard works in the study of ancient historiography. The website for Histos was hosted by the University of Durham from 1996 to 2011.

In 2010 a decision was made to re-start Histos, under the editorship of John Moles, now of the University of Newcastle, and with the addition of John Marincola, of Florida State University, as co-editor. The new site, now hosted by the University of Newcastle, was launched in June 2011, and the earlier material from volumes 1 to 4 was transferred to the new site, the older contributions having been converted from HTML format to PDF.

The brief of HISTOS is rapid publication of high-quality articles and notes on all aspects of ancient historiography and biography (including Jewish historiography, the Gospels and later Christian material) and of in-depth reviews of recent publications in the field. It is not our intention to publish material which is per se historical, unless it illuminates the qualities of ancient historians or biographers (this will be a matter of balance and judgment). All submissions will be anonymously refereed by experts. We aim for a turn-around time of a maximum of three months. We will publish in English, French, German and Italian.

HISTOS will be available both online, in a full open-access version (in PDF form), and in a printed version. All the papers accepted for publication will appear in both formats. Readers' responses are welcomed.

Vol. 20 (2026)

Published: 2026-02-02

Articles

Numa the Pythagorean

T. P. Wiseman

1-40

PDF

Nomoi and Cannibalism in Herodotus' Histories

Ryan Masato Baldwin

41-64

PDF

Per una proposta di studio dei cataloghi in Tucidide

Riccardo Stigliano

65-98

PDF

Larissa and Piasus in the Suda Lexicon

Annalisa Paradiso

99-107

PDF

Philo, Writer of History: Constructing a Transcultural Literary Context in De vita Mosis

Maarten-Pieter Moolenburgh

108-125

PDF

Review-Discussions

Josephus among the Autobiographers (on Grojnowski, Situating Josephus’ Life within Ancient Autobiography)

William Den Hollander

I-XI

PDF

Prognostication, History, and Rhetoric in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries (on Hanaghan, Future Knowledge and Imperial Acceptance)

Moysés Marcos

XII-XXX

PDF

Rhetorical Exploitation, Social Memory , and the Attic Orators' Treatment of the Recent Past (on Kapellos, The Orators and Their Treatment of the Recent Past)

Bernd Steinbock

XXXI-LXXIII

PDF

Continued Focus on the Historia Augusta (on Zecchini, Historiae Augustae Colloquium Romanum 15)

Martin P. Shedd

LXXIV-LXXXIV

PDF

Falsity and Misinformation in Greek Literature (on De Brasi, Papathomas, and Tsiampokalos, Fake News in Ancient Greece and Figueira and Munson, Misinformation, Disinformation, and Propaganda in Greek Historiography)

Breno Battistin Sebastiani

LXXXV-CII

PDF

Rethinking Zuozhuan and Early Chinese Historiography (on Pines, Kern, and Luraghi, Zuozhuan and Early Chinese Historiography)

Ruobing Xian

CIII-CXVIII

PDF

Reviews

Herodotus in His Intellectual Setting (on Kingsley, Herodotus and the Presocratics)

Charles Chiasson

i-vi

PDF

Il conflitto patrizio-plebeo nella costruzione narrativa liviana (on Meunier, Tite-Live et la mise en scène de l’Histoire)

Elisa Della Calce

vii-xii

PDF

A Forgotten Late Antique Historian (on Garstad, Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch)

Matthew Hoskin

xiii-xiv

PDF

Decision-Making in Xenophon (on M. Zimmermann, Entscheidungsfindung und Machtausübung bei Xenophon)

Sven Günther

xv-xvii

PDF

Sources and Models Once Again (on O. Devillers and B. B. Sebastiani, Sources et modèles des historiens anciens 3)

Peter B. Martin

xviii-xxiii

PDF

Reading Livy's Spaces (on V. Fabrizi, Space, Narrative, and Historical Imagination in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita)

Jane D. Chaplin

xxiv-xxviii

PDF

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CfP: Repräsentationen und Re-Präsentationen von Sexarbeit – Band 1 der Schriftenreihe „Studien zu Sexarbeit und Repräsentation“

2026-06-05T10:00:55+00:00

Unter dem Titel „Repräsentationen und Re-Präsentationen von Sexarbeit“ soll der erste inter- und transdisziplinäre Band der Schriftenreihe aus den „Studien zu Sexarbeit und Repräsentation“ erscheinen. Der Call deckt ein breites Spektrum an Themen ab, die das Repräsentationsgeschehen mit Blick auf Sexarbeit erforschbar machen sollen: Öffentliche oder gruppenspezifisch geprägte Bilder von Sexarbeit, Weisen der Wissensprduktion bei Sexarbeit, Machtfragen, Methodenfragen bei der Erarbeitung entpsrechender Fragen, um nur einiges zu nennen.
Dabei werden explizit Beiträge aus der Politischen Theorie begrüßt; daneben auch diverse Beitragsformate, darunter auch aktivistische, künstlerische, multimodale, partizipative und kollaborative Formate.
Beitragsvorschläge können mit einem Abstract von 300–500 Wörter bis zum 15.07.2026 an Arne Dreßler (arne.dressler(at)uni-hamburg.de), Marlen Löffler (marlen-simone.loeffler(at)iu.org), Sabrina Stranzl (stranzl(at)if k.ac.at) oder Lisa Waegerle (Lisa.Waegerle(at)hs-bochum.de) gerichtet werden. Den Call mit detaillierten Informationen gibt es hier.

Niedrist on Criminal Justice in Habsburg Austria

2026-06-05T04:30:00+00:00

Franziska Niedrist has posted Crime and Criminal Justice: Habsburg's Supreme Court, Tyrol and Vorarlberg (1814-1844):

This paper examines criminal justice practices in Austria during the Vormärz period on the basis of a series of criminal case files from the Supreme Judicial Authority (Oberste Justizstelle) of the Habsburg Monarchy. The interdisciplinary study investigates a wide range of offenses prosecuted in Tyrol and Vorarlberg. At the same time, it provides a nuanced picture of Austrian criminal justice, offering insights into the decision-making practices of the supreme court as well as its interaction with lower judicial authorities. By combining traditional approaches in legal history with innovative methods drawn from the history of crime (historische Kriminalitätsforschung) and discourse analysis, the study adopts a novel perspective. Moreover, it offers valuable insights into the history of Austrian criminal law, crime and society, while also illuminating everyday life in the early 19th century.

--Dan Ernst

BOOK: Benoît CARRÉ, Distribuer l’argent du roi au XVIIIe siècle. La monarchie dévoilée (Villeneuve d'Asq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2025), ISBN 978-2-7574-4486-3 [OPEN ACCESS]

2026-06-05T07:00:00+00:00

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Abstract:

Under the Ancien Régime, the finances of the King of France were shrouded in secrecy until the famous Necker decided to publish estimates of the monarchy’s income and, above all, expenditure. The public then discovered the staggering amount of the pensions that Louis XVI was paying to a large proportion of the nobility. At the time of the Revolution, the National Assembly decided to investigate and revealed the way in which public funds derived from tax coercion had been used to subsidise courtiers. This book tells the story both of the investigation and of the object investigated. By describing for the first time, using unpublished archives, the uses of this social practice that linked the king to the nobility, the author casts a new light on the forces behind the final crisis of the Ancien Régime and traces the genesis of the first retirement system for the State civil service.

On the author:

Chercheur en histoire moderne, spécialiste de l’Ancien Régime et de la Révolution. Il est docteur de l’université de Lille depuis 2018. Distribuer l’argent du roi au xviiie siècle. La monarchie dévoilée est son premier livre.

Read the book here: DOI 10.4000/14c77.

CLH ARTICLE: William PARTLETT, Constitutional nationalism and remembered history: the post-Soviet example (Comparative Legal History, XIII (2025), nr. 2 (December), pp. 277-305)

2026-06-05T06:30:00+00:00

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Abstract:

This article will argue that national history can further the project of constitutional self-government even in formerly authoritarian countries. Examining the former Soviet republics, it will describe how remembering forgotten or suppressed democratic constitutional ideas and arguments from national history can help support the project of constitutional self-government. This form of ‘constitutional nationalism’ counters arguments that constitutional self-government is a project of convergence with western best practices. It instead links it to long-standing national struggles to adapt the balanced constitution of constitutional self-government to the national context. ‘Constitutional nationalism’ therefore relies on a different approach to history. Rather than understanding national history in countries with a long history of authoritarianism as something to ignore or overcome, it views this history as a potential source of (often suppressed) ideas and inspiration for helping the project of constitutional self-government today.

To read the article, please click here. Online access is free for members of the European Society for Comparative Legal History.

DOI: 10.1080/2049677X.2025.2579474

"The pen fell from my hand when I was in my eighty-sixth year"

2026-06-04T18:25:28+00:00

"The pen fell from my hand when I was in my eighty-sixth year"

Gunnel Ekroth (red.), Jenny Wallensten (red.)

ActaAth-8°, no. 24

“The pen fell from my hand when I was in my eighty-sixth year.” Revisiting the work of Martin P. Nilsson

Edited by Jenny Wallensten & Gunnel Ekroth

2017 marked the 50th anniversary of both the death of Martin P. Nilsson, the eminent Swedish scholar of ancient Greek religion, and the publication of the third edition of his monumental Geschichte der griechischen Religion. Nilsson’s scholarly output was huge, with a production of around 20 items annually, and he touched upon most aspects of the study of ancient Greek religion, be it in a book or an article, in a footnote or an in-depth argument. This volume constitutes a re-reading of Nilsson in the light of new ancient evidence, and modern methods and theoretical approaches.

Five leading researchers in this field of religion revisit major works of Nilsson’s oeuvre—Geschichte der griechischen Religion, vols 1 and 2 (Jon Mikalson and Eftychia Stavrianopoulou), Greek folk religion (Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge), Minoan-Mycenaean religion (Matthew Haysom) and Greek piety (Michael D. Konaris)—in order to explore whether his works today are mainly touched upon with just the usual obligatory references or if they still have an active impact on contemporary discourses. Hopefully, this undertaking will stimulate others to explore the vast landscape of Nilsson’s work in the future.
ISBN 9789179160708

Hard cover

168 pages

Published 2024

Language eng
Contents

Initial remarks. By Jenny Wallensten & Gunnel Ekroth, pp. 9–14

Science, evergreen. An introduction. By Jesper Svenbro, pp. 15–22

Martin P. Nilsson, Geschichte der griechischen Religion vol. 1. By Jon Mikalson, pp. 23–37

Hellenistic Religion(s). Revisiting Martin P. Nilsson’s Geschichte der griechischen Religion vol. 2. Die hellenistische und römische Zeit. By Eftychia Stavrianopoulou, pp. 39–65

To be or not to be … “popular”. Martin P. Nilsson’s Greek folk religion, its context, and its modern echoes. By Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, pp. 67–85

Nilsson in the Bronze Age. The place of prehistory in the history of Greek religion. Martin P. Nilsson’s Minoan-Mycenaean religion. By Matthew Haysom, pp. 87–120

A history of changing religious attitudes in Greek antiquity. Martin P. Nilsson’s Greek piety. By Michael D. Konaris, pp. 121–154

Index, pp. 155–158

Children Lost and Found : A bioarchaeological study of Middle Helladic children in Asine with a comparison to Lerna

2026-06-04T18:22:24+00:00

Children Lost and Found : A bioarchaeological study of Middle Helladic children in Asine with a comparison to Lerna

Anne Ingvarsson-Sundström

ActaAth-4°, no. 45

This study focuses on children’s living conditions during the Middle Helladic period in Greece. The primary material comprises disarticulated skeletal remains found in a stratigraphic context during the Swedish excavations of Asine in 1926: 4,583 fragments/complete bones. These made up 103 subadults and 36 adults by means of Minimum Number of Individual (MNI) calculations. It was possible to assign subadult skeletal remains to 39 of the 105 already published graves in the Lower Town of Asine. In addition, children’s graves and skeletal remains from the neighbouring site of Lerna (periods IV–VI) are considered for comparisons of demography, health and mortuary treatment. The wider archaeological context, i.e., the published mortuary material from the settlements and cemeteries, is also examined and used to describe the community’s perception of children. It is necessary to consider children in past cultures as active and constantly changing individuals, possessing different social roles during the course of their life. Given that a culture’s perception and definition of children are dependent on age or physical development, for example, the physical remains of these individuals must be given adequate attention; only by including these data also can one hypothesize on a culture’s image of a child as well as on their age specific morbidity and mortality. I argue that neonatals, and even foetuses were regarded as individuals who were afforded the same type of mortuary treatment as older children and adults in the intramural cemetery of Asine. However, it is likely that the elite groups of the community had other customs, possibly preventing the burial of foetuses and neonatals in the extramural cemetery used by them.

The examination of children’s growth and analysis of the teeth suggest that their morbidity was aggravated by periods of malnutrition at both sites. The presence of prenatal disturbances on the teeth combined with normal length of the long bones during the infants’ first months points in different directions: it is therefore likely that different types of physiological stress affected different parts of the skeleton during the individuals’ development. The skeletal growth profiles of children indicate that growth started to be affected after three months of age, and after two years of age many children could probably be considered short for their age in comparison with modern Western children. The neonatal mortality at both Asine and Lerna was probably increased by women’s poor health which seems to have begun already in childhood. Significant amounts of foods other than breast-milk were probably given to the infants at around four months of age, as reflected by the Bourgeois-Pichat biometric analysis. Demographic variables derived from contemporary pre-industrial populations suggest that older siblings were likely to have been important care-givers for infants and young children, a practice which would also be consistent with an early introduction of other nutrients than breast milk.
ISBN 9789179160562

Soft cover

151 pages

Published 2008

Language eng

2026-06-04 18:19:13

2026-06-04T18:19:13+00:00

Mastos in the Berbati Valley : An Intensive Archaeological Survey

Berit Wells (red.), Michael Lindblom (red.)

ActaAth-4°, no. 54

This study presents the results of a small but intensive surface survey conducted on the Mastos Hill in the Berbati Valley in 1999. While remains from the Early and Late Helladic period were known from previous excavations on its southern and eastern slopes, this is the first analysis of the entire hill. It includes a digital documentation of the local topography as well as an account of the archaeological remains retrieved in the field. The study fills a gap in different data sets and results gained through old excavations and the extensive 1988-1990 Berbati-Limnes survey.

The introductory chapter summarises previous work in the valley, discusses its ancient routes of communication and outlines the method employed in the archaeological survey. This is followed by an account of the topographical survey and the geographical information system used. In the six following chapters the archaeological remains are presented and analysed in a diachronic fashion. It is concluded that the hill was predominantly settled in prehistory with the exception of a small stronghold in Medieval times on its top terrace. A detailed petrographic study of ceramics found at different locales in the valley is also included.
ISBN 9789179160586

Hard cover

189 pages

Published 2011

Language eng

Open access (articles as PDF)

List of illustrations |

List of tables |

Preface |

Introduction |

The topographical survey and the Geographical Information System (GIS) |

The Neolithic period |

The Early Helladic period |

The Middle Helladic period |

The Late Helladic period |

The Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods |

The Late Antique and Medieval periods |

Petrographic analysis of ceramics from the Berbati Valley |

Conclusions |

Bibliography |

Foldout 1 |

Foldout 2 |

Collection sur Persée	1881 - 2009
Barrière	fixe 2000
Discipline	archéologie, études classiques
Éditeur actuel	École Française de Rome
eISSN	non disponible
DOI	10.3406/mefr