Brian Brennan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1188809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Brennan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Brennan |
| SIGNATURE | BRENNAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | NSW Department of Education |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Victorious Afterlife of the Terme Boxer
Mapping the Eternal City: Rodolfo Lanciani’s Forma Urbis Romae
Rodolfo Lanciani’s multi-layered map of Rome, the Forma Urbis Romae (1893‒1901), is acknowledged as a masterpiece of late nineteenth-century cartography and remains much utilized by classical researchers. Its title references the third-century Forma Urbis, the Severan marble map of the city, and this paper situates Lanciani’s map within a cartographical tradition that was part of the modern reception of the Severan marbles. It investigates how th…
Rodolfo Lanciani and the Southwest Quirinal: From Excavation to the Forma Urbis Romae
In 1885, during excavations on the southwest slope of the Quirinal Hill, two magnificent Hellenistic bronzes were discovered by Rodolfo Lanciani. Although Lanciani dated the burial of the bronzes to the era of the barbarian attacks on the city of Rome, here it will be argued that the bronzes may have been excavated elsewhere by clandestine diggers and then reburied on the Quirinal slope, in a stash of robbers’ loot. Utilizing newly located archiv…
The Boxing Writer Paul Gallico on the Terme Boxer
The statue of a seated boxer, discovered by Rodolfo Lanciani on the Quirinal Hill at Rome in 1885 and now in the Terme Museum, is today one of the most celebrated Hellenistic bronzes. This article focuses on a reexamination of the Terme Boxer. It argues that what has been largely lacking in the scholarly literature has been an analysis of the sculpture by someone with an expert knowledge of the sport of boxing. What may be gained by such knowledg…
Visiting ‘Peter in Chains’: French Pilgrimage to Rome, 1873–93
Inscribed on the wall of the expiatory Basilica of Sacré Coeur, at Montmartre, the 1873 ‘national vow’ of France interprets the nation's recent misfortunes as divine chastisement of an errant and irreligious people. Since it was Napoleon III's withdrawal of French troops from Rome that had made it possible for the Italian forces to capture the papal city in September 1870, the ‘national vow’ reflects a strong sense of French responsibility for th…
Distriblets: Java‐based distributed computing on the Web
Describes a system for using the World Wide Web to distribute computational tasks to multiple hosts on the Web. A programmer with a computation to distribute registers it with a Web server. An idle host uses this server to identify available computations and downloads a Java class to perform the computation ‐ we call this class a distriblet. The paper describes the programs written to carry out the load distribution, the structure of a distriblet…
Being Martin’: Saint and Successor in Sixth‐Century Tours
Utilising the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus ( c . 530–600), this article explores the literary fashioning of an idealized episcopal identity for the sixth‐century bishops of Tours as successors to Martin, the celebrated fourth‐century saint of the city. It is argued that the poet’s deployment of the model was of political use to his patron, Bishop Gregory of Tours, both in the establishment of his authority in the town and in dealings with the F…
Being Martin: Saint and Successor in Sixth-Century Tours
The Revival of the Cult of Martin of Tours in the Third Republic
Statuary groups, countless illustrations, and colorful stained glass all preserve for us the most famous medieval image of the charitable soldier-saint, Martin of Tours (336-397). The young Martin is depicted seated on his horse dividing his soldier's cape to share it with Christ disguised as a freezing beggar at the gate of Amiens. After abandoning the Roman army, Martin became a monk, an ascetic "soldier of Christ," and was chosen by the people…
Piety and Politics in Nineteenth Century Poitiers: The Cult of St Radegund
St Radegund, a sixth-century royal ascetic who relinquished her position as the wife of a Frankish king and established a convent in Poitiers, is today a rather obscure French local saint. Yet in the nineteenth century, as a result of the tireless promotion of her cult by Édouard Pie, bishop of Poitiers from 1849 to 1880, St Radegund was widely invoked in France as ‘la sainte reine de la France’ and ‘la mère de la patrie’. Her wonder-working tomb…
The image of the Merovingian bishop in the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus
The sixth-century Latin poet Venantius Fortunatus has left us over three hundred works which constitute a valuable historical source for sixth-century Gaul. His collected works contain a number of episcopal panegyrics as well as metrical epitaphs for bishops' tombs and commemorative verse designed for inscription on walls or church plate. This source material has much to contribute to the modern debate about the power and prestige of the Meroving…
"Augustine's "De musica
Augustine's De Musica
Augustine's less well known works, his treatise De Musica.' Although in the Renaissance period, following the rediscovery of the treatise, Augustine was once again acknowledged as a Christian musical theorist,2 our own age does not immediately see him in this light. Carpaccio's reference long remained obscure. Written as part of a projected series of works on the liberal arts, Augustine's De Musica deals not with practical music making but with m…
Senators and social mobility in sixth-century Gaul
In the historical and hagiographical writings of Gregory of Tours and in the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus we encounter a group of men who make the claim that they are descendants of the Roman senators of an earlier time. This paper sets out to examine the status of this group in the light of the suggestion by Frank D. Gilliard that in the imprecise Latin of Gregory of Tours the word senator was often used to denote someone who was merely a larg…
St Radegund and the Early Development of Her Cult at Poitiers
Athanasius' "Vita Antonii". A Sociological Interpretation
Athanasius' Vita Antonii
Episcopae: Bishops' Wives Viewed in Sixth-Century Gaul
The sixth-century Gallic episcopacy contained within its ranks three distinct groups of men. The first group comprised those who had come to the episcopacy from a monastic background; the tradition of the monk-bishop, nurtured in the fifth century by the monastery of Lérins, was still strong, particularly in southern Gaul. The second group consisted of men who, although celibate, were not monks. The third group was composed of married clerics who…
The image of the Frankish kings in the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus
The poetry of Venantius Fortunatus is a sadly neglected historical source for sixth-century Gaul. Amongst the literary material that has survived from that age, the works of Gregory of Tours loom large. Since Gregory provides us with the sole narrative history of Gaul for much of this century, we are forced to see Merovingian society through his eyes. Venantius wrote panegyric, and an age such as ours, which values sincerity of expression, finds …
Visiting ‘Peter in Chains’: French Pilgrimage to Rome, 1873–93
Inscribed on the wall of the expiatory Basilica of Sacré Coeur, at Montmartre, the 1873 ‘national vow’ of France interprets the nation's recent misfortunes as divine chastisement of an errant and irreligious people. Since it was Napoleon III's withdrawal of French troops from Rome that had made it possible for the Italian forces to capture the papal city in September 1870, the ‘national vow’ reflects a strong sense of French responsibility for th…
St Radegund and the Early Development of Her Cult at Poitiers
The image of the Frankish kings in the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus
The poetry of Venantius Fortunatus is a sadly neglected historical source for sixth-century Gaul. Amongst the literary material that has survived from that age, the works of Gregory of Tours loom large. Since Gregory provides us with the sole narrative history of Gaul for much of this century, we are forced to see Merovingian society through his eyes. Venantius wrote panegyric, and an age such as ours, which values sincerity of expression, finds …
Episcopae: Bishops' Wives Viewed in Sixth-Century Gaul
The sixth-century Gallic episcopacy contained within its ranks three distinct groups of men. The first group comprised those who had come to the episcopacy from a monastic background; the tradition of the monk-bishop, nurtured in the fifth century by the monastery of Lérins, was still strong, particularly in southern Gaul. The second group consisted of men who, although celibate, were not monks. The third group was composed of married clerics who…
Being Martin: Saint and Successor in Sixth-Century Tours
Augustine's De Musica
Augustine's less well known works, his treatise De Musica.' Although in the Renaissance period, following the rediscovery of the treatise, Augustine was once again acknowledged as a Christian musical theorist,2 our own age does not immediately see him in this light. Carpaccio's reference long remained obscure. Written as part of a projected series of works on the liberal arts, Augustine's De Musica deals not with practical music making but with m…
The image of the Frankish kings in the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus
The poetry of Venantius Fortunatus is a sadly neglected historical source for sixth-century Gaul. Amongst the literary material that has survived from that age, the works of Gregory of Tours loom large. Since Gregory provides us with the sole narrative history of Gaul for much of this century, we are forced to see Merovingian society through his eyes. Venantius wrote panegyric, and an age such as ours, which values sincerity of expression, finds …
Senators and social mobility in sixth-century Gaul
In the historical and hagiographical writings of Gregory of Tours and in the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus we encounter a group of men who make the claim that they are descendants of the Roman senators of an earlier time. This paper sets out to examine the status of this group in the light of the suggestion by Frank D. Gilliard that in the imprecise Latin of Gregory of Tours the word senator was often used to denote someone who was merely a larg…
St Radegund and the Early Development of Her Cult at Poitiers
Athanasius' "Vita Antonii". A Sociological Interpretation
Athanasius' Vita Antonii
Episcopae: Bishops' Wives Viewed in Sixth-Century Gaul
The sixth-century Gallic episcopacy contained within its ranks three distinct groups of men. The first group comprised those who had come to the episcopacy from a monastic background; the tradition of the monk-bishop, nurtured in the fifth century by the monastery of Lérins, was still strong, particularly in southern Gaul. The second group consisted of men who, although celibate, were not monks. The third group was composed of married clerics who…
"Augustine's "De musica
Augustine's De Musica
Augustine's less well known works, his treatise De Musica.' Although in the Renaissance period, following the rediscovery of the treatise, Augustine was once again acknowledged as a Christian musical theorist,2 our own age does not immediately see him in this light. Carpaccio's reference long remained obscure. Written as part of a projected series of works on the liberal arts, Augustine's De Musica deals not with practical music making but with m…
The image of the Merovingian bishop in the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus
The sixth-century Latin poet Venantius Fortunatus has left us over three hundred works which constitute a valuable historical source for sixth-century Gaul. His collected works contain a number of episcopal panegyrics as well as metrical epitaphs for bishops' tombs and commemorative verse designed for inscription on walls or church plate. This source material has much to contribute to the modern debate about the power and prestige of the Meroving…
Piety and Politics in Nineteenth Century Poitiers: The Cult of St Radegund
St Radegund, a sixth-century royal ascetic who relinquished her position as the wife of a Frankish king and established a convent in Poitiers, is today a rather obscure French local saint. Yet in the nineteenth century, as a result of the tireless promotion of her cult by Édouard Pie, bishop of Poitiers from 1849 to 1880, St Radegund was widely invoked in France as ‘la sainte reine de la France’ and ‘la mère de la patrie’. Her wonder-working tomb…
Being Martin’: Saint and Successor in Sixth‐Century Tours
Utilising the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus ( c . 530–600), this article explores the literary fashioning of an idealized episcopal identity for the sixth‐century bishops of Tours as successors to Martin, the celebrated fourth‐century saint of the city. It is argued that the poet’s deployment of the model was of political use to his patron, Bishop Gregory of Tours, both in the establishment of his authority in the town and in dealings with the F…
Being Martin: Saint and Successor in Sixth-Century Tours
The Revival of the Cult of Martin of Tours in the Third Republic
Statuary groups, countless illustrations, and colorful stained glass all preserve for us the most famous medieval image of the charitable soldier-saint, Martin of Tours (336-397). The young Martin is depicted seated on his horse dividing his soldier's cape to share it with Christ disguised as a freezing beggar at the gate of Amiens. After abandoning the Roman army, Martin became a monk, an ascetic "soldier of Christ," and was chosen by the people…
Distriblets: Java‐based distributed computing on the Web
Describes a system for using the World Wide Web to distribute computational tasks to multiple hosts on the Web. A programmer with a computation to distribute registers it with a Web server. An idle host uses this server to identify available computations and downloads a Java class to perform the computation ‐ we call this class a distriblet. The paper describes the programs written to carry out the load distribution, the structure of a distriblet…
Visiting ‘Peter in Chains’: French Pilgrimage to Rome, 1873–93
Inscribed on the wall of the expiatory Basilica of Sacré Coeur, at Montmartre, the 1873 ‘national vow’ of France interprets the nation's recent misfortunes as divine chastisement of an errant and irreligious people. Since it was Napoleon III's withdrawal of French troops from Rome that had made it possible for the Italian forces to capture the papal city in September 1870, the ‘national vow’ reflects a strong sense of French responsibility for th…
The Boxing Writer Paul Gallico on the Terme Boxer
The statue of a seated boxer, discovered by Rodolfo Lanciani on the Quirinal Hill at Rome in 1885 and now in the Terme Museum, is today one of the most celebrated Hellenistic bronzes. This article focuses on a reexamination of the Terme Boxer. It argues that what has been largely lacking in the scholarly literature has been an analysis of the sculpture by someone with an expert knowledge of the sport of boxing. What may be gained by such knowledg…
Rodolfo Lanciani and the Southwest Quirinal: From Excavation to the Forma Urbis Romae
In 1885, during excavations on the southwest slope of the Quirinal Hill, two magnificent Hellenistic bronzes were discovered by Rodolfo Lanciani. Although Lanciani dated the burial of the bronzes to the era of the barbarian attacks on the city of Rome, here it will be argued that the bronzes may have been excavated elsewhere by clandestine diggers and then reburied on the Quirinal slope, in a stash of robbers’ loot. Utilizing newly located archiv…
The Victorious Afterlife of the Terme Boxer
Mapping the Eternal City: Rodolfo Lanciani’s Forma Urbis Romae
Rodolfo Lanciani’s multi-layered map of Rome, the Forma Urbis Romae (1893‒1901), is acknowledged as a masterpiece of late nineteenth-century cartography and remains much utilized by classical researchers. Its title references the third-century Forma Urbis, the Severan marble map of the city, and this paper situates Lanciani’s map within a cartographical tradition that was part of the modern reception of the Severan marbles. It investigates how th…
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