Charles F Pazdernik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1079375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles F Pazdernik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles F |
| FAMILY NAME | Pazdernik |
| SIGNATURE | PAZDERNIK C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grand Valley State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Procopius' Recalcitrant Reader (Wars 1.1.6–17)
A programmatic passage in the preface of Procopius of Caesarea’s Wars (1.1.6–17) focuses on how the work will be received by its implied audience. Procopius’ narrator posits two contrasting figures: one, an open-minded reader disposed to reason from historical evidence and to recognise the extraordinary qualities of contemporary events; the other, a recalcitrant reader whose valorisation of the past and immersion in linguistic archaism render him…
Procopius on Soldiers and Military Institutions in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire
Senate, Byzantium
From the fourth until the seventh centuries ce , the Senate was notable more for the accumulated wealth, prestige, and experience of its members than for any specific institutional or administrative role within the Roman state. The period witnessed the establishment in Constantinople of a body equivalent to the Senate of the city of Rome and the vast expansion of the senatorial order, in the course of which it was transformed, especially in the e…
John Lydus
John Lydus (ca. 490–554 ce ) is known to us through his three extant works – the treatises De mensibus (“On the months”) and De ostentis (“On omens”), dealing with Roman and other calendars and festivals and with divinatory practices and astrology, respectively, and De magistratibus (“On the magistracies”), an idiosyncratic institutional history of the imperial administration – that contain a wealth of antiquarian detail and provide valuable pers…
Social structure and mobility, Byzantine
The principal horizontal division in society between the fourth and seventh centuries ce was between those whose wealth, privilege, and status placed them in the category of “the powerful” or “the notable,” and everyone else. This division has conventionally been expressed in terms of a distinction between honestiores and humiliores , but equivalent expressions appear in a variety of contexts.
Basileus/autokrator , Byzantine
From the fourth through the seventh centuries ce , it became customary to refer to the Roman emperor unofficially as basileus , which from 629 was adopted as an official title. As an official title, autokrator was the Greek equivalent of the Latin imperator .
Provincial administration, Byzantine
The administrative structure of the Roman Empire from the fourth until the seventh centuries ce comprised a central authority radiating from the emperor and his ministers into the provinces.
Dynasty, idea of, Byzantine
It is conventional to speak of as many as six imperial dynasties between the fourth and the seventh centuries ce : those of Constantine I, Valentinian I, Theodosius I, Leo I, Justin I, and Herakleios.
Nicias’ Letter to the Athenians and Their Response (Thuc. 7.11–16)
The letter Thucydides attributes to Nicias while he was in sole command of the Athenian forces besieging Syracuse (7.11–15) voices grave doubts about Athens’ prospects for victory and Nicias’ own fitness for his position. Many readers will concur with Kenneth Dover’s judgment that the reader is unprepared for “the tone of hopelessness which pervades the letter” (HCT 4: 386). Yet the formal or generic basis for such a conclusion has not been fully…
Breaking silence in the historiography of Procopius of Caesarea
Procopius employs the motif of “grieving in silence” to describe the deliberations preceding Justinian’s invasion of Vandal North Africa in 533 (Wars 3.10.7-8) and his vendetta against the urban prefect of Constantinople in 523 (HA 9.41). The particularity of Procopius’ language in these passages makes their collocation especially pronounced. The distance between the Wars and the Secret History, which represents itself breaking the silence betwee…
Late antiquity in Europe c . 300–900 ce
The Neolithic Revolution set in motion a development whereby humans influenced their environment on an ever larger scale in order to meet their need for nutrition and material goods. A process of eminent historical importance, especially to the history of the knowledge about nature and technology, was the cultural, political, and economic development of Greece during the Archaic Period. A new era of natural science in ancient Greece began in Alex…
The Cambridge World History: Volume 4, a World with States, Empires and Networks 1200 BCE-900 CE
From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and expansion of these large-scale entities, this fourth volume of The Cambridge World History outlines key economic, political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments that occurred across the globe in this period. Leading scholars examine critical transformations…
Provincial administration, Byzantine
The administrative structure of the Roman Empire from the fourth until the seventh centuries CE comprised a central authority radiating from the emperor and his ministers into the provinces.
John Lydusm
John Lydus (ca. 490–554 CE ; PLRE 2 s.v. Ioannes Lydus 75), born in Philadelphia, the chief city of the province of Lydia (hence his cognomen), son of Laurentius and a close contemporary of the historian Procopius of Caesarea, is known to us through three extant works and notices in Photius ( Bibl . 180) and the Suda (I 465).
Dynasty, idea of, Byzantine
It is conventional to speak of as many as six imperial dynasties between the fourth and the seventh centuries CE : those of Constantine I; Valentinian I; Theodosius I; Leo I; Justin I, and Herakleios.
Basileus/autokrator , Byzantine
As an official title of Roman and Byzantine emperors, autokrator was the Greek equivalent of the Latin Imperator . Where the latter emphasized the holder's power of (in particular, military) command ( imperare; see Imperium ), the former connoted autonomy and absolute power ( kratos ).
Senate, Byzantium
From the fourth until the seventh centuries CE the Senate was notable more for the accumulated wealth, prestige, and experience of its members than for any specific institutional or administrative role within the Roman state. The period witnessed the establishment in Constantinople of a body equivalent to the Senate of the city of Rome and the vast expansion of the senatorial order, in the course of which it was transformed, especially in the eas…
Social Structure and Mobility, B yzantine
The principal horizontal division in society between the fourth and seventh centuries CE was between those whose wealth, privilege, and status placed them in the category of “the powerful” or “the notable,” and everyone else. This division has conventionally been expressed in terms of a distinction between HONESTIORES and HUMILIORES , but equivalent expressions appear in a variety of contexts.
Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Disclosing and Withholding the Imperial Presence in Justinianic Constantinople
Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Disclosing and Withholding the Imperial Presence in Justinianic Constantinople was published in Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity on page 63.
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Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Disclosing and Withholding the Imperial Presence in Justinianic Constantinople
Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Disclosing and Withholding the Imperial Presence in Justinianic Constantinople was published in Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity on page 63.
Provincial administration, Byzantine
The administrative structure of the Roman Empire from the fourth until the seventh centuries CE comprised a central authority radiating from the emperor and his ministers into the provinces.
John Lydusm
John Lydus (ca. 490–554 CE ; PLRE 2 s.v. Ioannes Lydus 75), born in Philadelphia, the chief city of the province of Lydia (hence his cognomen), son of Laurentius and a close contemporary of the historian Procopius of Caesarea, is known to us through three extant works and notices in Photius ( Bibl . 180) and the Suda (I 465).
Dynasty, idea of, Byzantine
It is conventional to speak of as many as six imperial dynasties between the fourth and the seventh centuries CE : those of Constantine I; Valentinian I; Theodosius I; Leo I; Justin I, and Herakleios.
Basileus/autokrator , Byzantine
As an official title of Roman and Byzantine emperors, autokrator was the Greek equivalent of the Latin Imperator . Where the latter emphasized the holder's power of (in particular, military) command ( imperare; see Imperium ), the former connoted autonomy and absolute power ( kratos ).
Senate, Byzantium
From the fourth until the seventh centuries CE the Senate was notable more for the accumulated wealth, prestige, and experience of its members than for any specific institutional or administrative role within the Roman state. The period witnessed the establishment in Constantinople of a body equivalent to the Senate of the city of Rome and the vast expansion of the senatorial order, in the course of which it was transformed, especially in the eas…
Social Structure and Mobility, B yzantine
The principal horizontal division in society between the fourth and seventh centuries CE was between those whose wealth, privilege, and status placed them in the category of “the powerful” or “the notable,” and everyone else. This division has conventionally been expressed in terms of a distinction between HONESTIORES and HUMILIORES , but equivalent expressions appear in a variety of contexts.
Late antiquity in Europe c . 300–900 ce
The Neolithic Revolution set in motion a development whereby humans influenced their environment on an ever larger scale in order to meet their need for nutrition and material goods. A process of eminent historical importance, especially to the history of the knowledge about nature and technology, was the cultural, political, and economic development of Greece during the Archaic Period. A new era of natural science in ancient Greece began in Alex…
The Cambridge World History: Volume 4, a World with States, Empires and Networks 1200 BCE-900 CE
From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and expansion of these large-scale entities, this fourth volume of The Cambridge World History outlines key economic, political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments that occurred across the globe in this period. Leading scholars examine critical transformations…
Nicias’ Letter to the Athenians and Their Response (Thuc. 7.11–16)
The letter Thucydides attributes to Nicias while he was in sole command of the Athenian forces besieging Syracuse (7.11–15) voices grave doubts about Athens’ prospects for victory and Nicias’ own fitness for his position. Many readers will concur with Kenneth Dover’s judgment that the reader is unprepared for “the tone of hopelessness which pervades the letter” (HCT 4: 386). Yet the formal or generic basis for such a conclusion has not been fully…
Breaking silence in the historiography of Procopius of Caesarea
Procopius employs the motif of “grieving in silence” to describe the deliberations preceding Justinian’s invasion of Vandal North Africa in 533 (Wars 3.10.7-8) and his vendetta against the urban prefect of Constantinople in 523 (HA 9.41). The particularity of Procopius’ language in these passages makes their collocation especially pronounced. The distance between the Wars and the Secret History, which represents itself breaking the silence betwee…
Senate, Byzantium
From the fourth until the seventh centuries ce , the Senate was notable more for the accumulated wealth, prestige, and experience of its members than for any specific institutional or administrative role within the Roman state. The period witnessed the establishment in Constantinople of a body equivalent to the Senate of the city of Rome and the vast expansion of the senatorial order, in the course of which it was transformed, especially in the e…
John Lydus
John Lydus (ca. 490–554 ce ) is known to us through his three extant works – the treatises De mensibus (“On the months”) and De ostentis (“On omens”), dealing with Roman and other calendars and festivals and with divinatory practices and astrology, respectively, and De magistratibus (“On the magistracies”), an idiosyncratic institutional history of the imperial administration – that contain a wealth of antiquarian detail and provide valuable pers…
Social structure and mobility, Byzantine
The principal horizontal division in society between the fourth and seventh centuries ce was between those whose wealth, privilege, and status placed them in the category of “the powerful” or “the notable,” and everyone else. This division has conventionally been expressed in terms of a distinction between honestiores and humiliores , but equivalent expressions appear in a variety of contexts.
Basileus/autokrator , Byzantine
From the fourth through the seventh centuries ce , it became customary to refer to the Roman emperor unofficially as basileus , which from 629 was adopted as an official title. As an official title, autokrator was the Greek equivalent of the Latin imperator .
Provincial administration, Byzantine
The administrative structure of the Roman Empire from the fourth until the seventh centuries ce comprised a central authority radiating from the emperor and his ministers into the provinces.
Dynasty, idea of, Byzantine
It is conventional to speak of as many as six imperial dynasties between the fourth and the seventh centuries ce : those of Constantine I, Valentinian I, Theodosius I, Leo I, Justin I, and Herakleios.
Procopius on Soldiers and Military Institutions in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire
Procopius' Recalcitrant Reader (Wars 1.1.6–17)
A programmatic passage in the preface of Procopius of Caesarea’s Wars (1.1.6–17) focuses on how the work will be received by its implied audience. Procopius’ narrator posits two contrasting figures: one, an open-minded reader disposed to reason from historical evidence and to recognise the extraordinary qualities of contemporary events; the other, a recalcitrant reader whose valorisation of the past and immersion in linguistic archaism render him…
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