Andrew Gillett
Biographic Data
| ID | 5644287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Gillett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillett |
| SIGNATURE | GILLETT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3151-5539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Telling off Justinian
The death of the powerful Frankish king Theudebert I (r. 533–47) gave rise to a diplomatic imbroglio between the courts of the eastern emperor Justinian, who condemned the late king, and Theudebert's son and successor Theudebald, who aggressively defended his father's memory. This dispute provides two opportunities: first, to parse the sixth‐century sources into separate political discourses; and secondly, to examine the diplomatic letters of The…
The fall of Rome and the retreat of European multiculturalism
A feature of neo-conservative critiques during the course of this century, concerning public issues such as immigration and multicultural policy and Islamic terrorism, has been the use of a rhetoric based on historical imagery as a means to generate affective reactions to matters of debate. This article examines one example of such rhetoric, the claim by the economic historian Niall Ferguson that the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 re…
Barbarians, barbaroi
The figure of the barbarian was fundamental to classical Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman historiography, from its rise in athens through to Late Antiquity.
The Mirror of Jordanes
This chapter contains sections titled: Late Antique Varieties of Ethnicity, Identity, and the Barbarian Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman Ethnography and Its Functions Making Classical History into Barbarian Origins Bibliographical Note
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533
Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568
The ‘Fall of the Roman Empire’ and the subsequent early development of western Europe is a tract of history vigorously exploited by publishers at present, particularly through works (mostly lengthy) intended for students, non-specialists, and general audiences, rapidly using up the synonyms for ‘Fall’ (‘decline’, ‘ruin’, ‘end’, and ‘after’—post quam ergo propter quam). That Gibbon's territory is famous as a catch-phrase but nonetheless absent fro…
Barbarian Tides
A Greek Roman Empire
Journal Article A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450) Get access A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450), by Fergus Millar (Berkeley: U. of California P., 2006; pp. xxvi + 279. £32.50). Andrew Gillett Andrew Gillett Macquarie University, NSW Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 502, June 2008, Pages 6…
Ethnogenesis
Recent research in late antique and early medieval history has paid much attention to ‘Ethnogenesis’. The historical model associated with this term explains the change from the classical world to medieval conditions as the effect of ethnic identification supplanting Hellenistic forms of public discourse. Culturally specific dynamics of ethnicity, arising from proto‐historical northern Europe, are seen as the engines of change. Recent critiques o…
Bonnie Effros
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411–533
Warfare and dislocation are obvious features of the break-up of the late Roman West, but this crucial period of change was characterized also by communication and diplomacy. The great events of the late antique West were determined by the quieter labours of countless envoys, who travelled between emperors, kings, generals, high officials, bishops, provincial councils, and cities. This book examines the role of envoys in the period from the establ…
Was Ethnicity Politicized in the Earliest Medieval Kingdoms?
Ethnicity has been central to medieval studies since the Goths, Franks, Alamanni and other barbarian settlers of the former Roman empire were first seen as part of Germanic antiquity. Today, two paradigms dominate interpretation of barbarian Europe. In history, theories of how tribes formed (‘ethnogenesis’) assert the continuity of Germanic identities from prehistory through the Middle Ages, and see cultural rather than biological factors as the …
On Barbarian Identity
Rome, Ravenna and the last western emperors
ROMA, RAVENNA E GLI ULTIMI IMPERATORI D'OCCIDENTE Nonostante Ravenna sia stata a lungo considerata come la capitale degli imperatori tardo-romani e dei loro successori in Occidente, Odoacre e i sovrani ostrogoti, l'evidenza disponibile indica che la principale residenza imperiale del quinto secolo era invece a Roma. L'adozione di Ravenna come residenza imperiale è stata generalmente attribuita al fatto che la città, grazie alle sue paludi, era fa…
The Purposes of Cassiodorus' Variae
The Date and Circumstances of Olympiodorus of Thebes
Olympiodorus of Thebes is an important figure for the history of late antiquity. The few details of his life preserved as anecdotes in his History give glimpses of a career which embraced the skills of poet, philosopher, and diplomat. A native of Egypt, he had influence at the imperial court of Constantinople, among the sophists of Athens, and even outside the borders of the empire. His History (more correctly, his “materials for history”) is los…
On Barbarian Identity
The Date and Circumstances of Olympiodorus of Thebes
Olympiodorus of Thebes is an important figure for the history of late antiquity. The few details of his life preserved as anecdotes in his History give glimpses of a career which embraced the skills of poet, philosopher, and diplomat. A native of Egypt, he had influence at the imperial court of Constantinople, among the sophists of Athens, and even outside the borders of the empire. His History (more correctly, his “materials for history”) is los…
Ethnogenesis
Recent research in late antique and early medieval history has paid much attention to ‘Ethnogenesis’. The historical model associated with this term explains the change from the classical world to medieval conditions as the effect of ethnic identification supplanting Hellenistic forms of public discourse. Culturally specific dynamics of ethnicity, arising from proto‐historical northern Europe, are seen as the engines of change. Recent critiques o…
Rome, Ravenna and the last western emperors
ROMA, RAVENNA E GLI ULTIMI IMPERATORI D'OCCIDENTE Nonostante Ravenna sia stata a lungo considerata come la capitale degli imperatori tardo-romani e dei loro successori in Occidente, Odoacre e i sovrani ostrogoti, l'evidenza disponibile indica che la principale residenza imperiale del quinto secolo era invece a Roma. L'adozione di Ravenna come residenza imperiale è stata generalmente attribuita al fatto che la città, grazie alle sue paludi, era fa…
Telling off Justinian
The death of the powerful Frankish king Theudebert I (r. 533–47) gave rise to a diplomatic imbroglio between the courts of the eastern emperor Justinian, who condemned the late king, and Theudebert's son and successor Theudebald, who aggressively defended his father's memory. This dispute provides two opportunities: first, to parse the sixth‐century sources into separate political discourses; and secondly, to examine the diplomatic letters of The…
Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568
The ‘Fall of the Roman Empire’ and the subsequent early development of western Europe is a tract of history vigorously exploited by publishers at present, particularly through works (mostly lengthy) intended for students, non-specialists, and general audiences, rapidly using up the synonyms for ‘Fall’ (‘decline’, ‘ruin’, ‘end’, and ‘after’—post quam ergo propter quam). That Gibbon's territory is famous as a catch-phrase but nonetheless absent fro…
The Date and Circumstances of Olympiodorus of Thebes
Olympiodorus of Thebes is an important figure for the history of late antiquity. The few details of his life preserved as anecdotes in his History give glimpses of a career which embraced the skills of poet, philosopher, and diplomat. A native of Egypt, he had influence at the imperial court of Constantinople, among the sophists of Athens, and even outside the borders of the empire. His History (more correctly, his “materials for history”) is los…
The Purposes of Cassiodorus' Variae
Rome, Ravenna and the last western emperors
ROMA, RAVENNA E GLI ULTIMI IMPERATORI D'OCCIDENTE Nonostante Ravenna sia stata a lungo considerata come la capitale degli imperatori tardo-romani e dei loro successori in Occidente, Odoacre e i sovrani ostrogoti, l'evidenza disponibile indica che la principale residenza imperiale del quinto secolo era invece a Roma. L'adozione di Ravenna come residenza imperiale è stata generalmente attribuita al fatto che la città, grazie alle sue paludi, era fa…
Was Ethnicity Politicized in the Earliest Medieval Kingdoms?
Ethnicity has been central to medieval studies since the Goths, Franks, Alamanni and other barbarian settlers of the former Roman empire were first seen as part of Germanic antiquity. Today, two paradigms dominate interpretation of barbarian Europe. In history, theories of how tribes formed (‘ethnogenesis’) assert the continuity of Germanic identities from prehistory through the Middle Ages, and see cultural rather than biological factors as the …
On Barbarian Identity
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411–533
Warfare and dislocation are obvious features of the break-up of the late Roman West, but this crucial period of change was characterized also by communication and diplomacy. The great events of the late antique West were determined by the quieter labours of countless envoys, who travelled between emperors, kings, generals, high officials, bishops, provincial councils, and cities. This book examines the role of envoys in the period from the establ…
Ethnogenesis
Recent research in late antique and early medieval history has paid much attention to ‘Ethnogenesis’. The historical model associated with this term explains the change from the classical world to medieval conditions as the effect of ethnic identification supplanting Hellenistic forms of public discourse. Culturally specific dynamics of ethnicity, arising from proto‐historical northern Europe, are seen as the engines of change. Recent critiques o…
Bonnie Effros
Barbarian Tides
A Greek Roman Empire
Journal Article A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450) Get access A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450), by Fergus Millar (Berkeley: U. of California P., 2006; pp. xxvi + 279. £32.50). Andrew Gillett Andrew Gillett Macquarie University, NSW Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 502, June 2008, Pages 6…
The Mirror of Jordanes
This chapter contains sections titled: Late Antique Varieties of Ethnicity, Identity, and the Barbarian Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman Ethnography and Its Functions Making Classical History into Barbarian Origins Bibliographical Note
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533
Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568
The ‘Fall of the Roman Empire’ and the subsequent early development of western Europe is a tract of history vigorously exploited by publishers at present, particularly through works (mostly lengthy) intended for students, non-specialists, and general audiences, rapidly using up the synonyms for ‘Fall’ (‘decline’, ‘ruin’, ‘end’, and ‘after’—post quam ergo propter quam). That Gibbon's territory is famous as a catch-phrase but nonetheless absent fro…
Barbarians, barbaroi
The figure of the barbarian was fundamental to classical Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman historiography, from its rise in athens through to Late Antiquity.
The fall of Rome and the retreat of European multiculturalism
A feature of neo-conservative critiques during the course of this century, concerning public issues such as immigration and multicultural policy and Islamic terrorism, has been the use of a rhetoric based on historical imagery as a means to generate affective reactions to matters of debate. This article examines one example of such rhetoric, the claim by the economic historian Niall Ferguson that the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 re…
Telling off Justinian
The death of the powerful Frankish king Theudebert I (r. 533–47) gave rise to a diplomatic imbroglio between the courts of the eastern emperor Justinian, who condemned the late king, and Theudebert's son and successor Theudebald, who aggressively defended his father's memory. This dispute provides two opportunities: first, to parse the sixth‐century sources into separate political discourses; and secondly, to examine the diplomatic letters of The…
On Barbarian Identity
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