Raymond Van Dam
Biographic Data
| ID | 299356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond Van Dam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Dam |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DAM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Inscriptions from the Age of Constantine: Editions, Translations, and Essays
Imperial Fathers and Their Sons: Licinius, Constantine, and the Council of Nicaea
During the formative period of disputation over the theology of Arius, the emperor Licinius ruled over the eastern Roman provinces. The emperor Constantine was directly involved in the doctrinal controversy only after his victory over Licinius in 324. But Constantine’s engagement in imperial politics had already shaped his thinking about theology. In imperial successions sons were sometimes promoted but also sometimes overlooked. Emperors introdu…
Paul the Martyr: The Cult of the Apostle in the Latin West. By David L. Eastman
Paul the Martyr: The Cult of the Apostle in the Latin West. By David L. Eastman. Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series, vol. 4. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011. Pp. xx + 238, illus. $30.95 (paper
A History of the Roman Equestrian Order by Caillan Davenport
Reviewed by: A History of the Roman Equestrian Order by Caillan Davenport Raymond Van Dam Caillan Davenport. A History of the Roman Equestrian Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxv, 717. $180.00. ISBN 978-1-107-03253-8. In ancient societies ownership of herds of horses was typically an indication of power, wealth, and prestige. Victories and bloodlines were advantages thoroughbreds shared with rulers and aristocrats, and Rom…
Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History. By James Corke-Webster
Eusebius of Caesarea was the founder of early Christian studies. Working in the large library at Caesarea in Palestine during the later third and early fourth centuries, Eusebius was a prolific author who generously sprinkled his many treatises with extended extracts from both Christian and non-Christian writers. His Ecclesiastical History has been especially influential. Modern scholars read his Ecclesiastical History for information about peopl…
Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil Wars, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy by Adrastos Omissi
Reviewed by: Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil Wars, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy by Adrastos Omissi Raymond Van Dam Adrastos Omissi. Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil Wars, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxix, 348. $130.00. ISBN 978-0-19-882482-4. The initial transition from Augustus to his stepson Ti…
Rome's Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity by Jason Moralee
Reviewed by: Rome's Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity by Jason Moralee Raymond Van Dam Jason Moralee. Rome's Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity. Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxv, 278. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-049227-4. The symbolic high point of ancient Rome was the Capitoline Hill, crowned with the great Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. In Vergil's Aeneid the h…
Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy by Cameron Hawkins
Reviewed by: Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy by Cameron Hawkins Raymond Van Dam Cameron Hawkins. Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 307. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-11544-6. In current scholarship about the ancient economy the application of modern theory is standard practice; but the open question is whether the ancient economy resembled our modern economy or operated according to different…
Roman Festivals in the Greek East from the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era by Fritz Graf
Reviewed by: Roman Festivals in the Greek East from the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era by Fritz Graf Raymond Van Dam Fritz Graf. Roman Festivals in the Greek East from the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi, 363. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-107-09211-2. In the Roman Empire ceremonies originally associated with pagan gods continued to flourish even afte…
Modelling the Supply of Wood Fuel in Ancient Rome
Provisioning the city of Rome required complex systems of management and procurement. Despite the importance of wood for baking the grain of the annona and heating the water for baths (among other applications), there is little evidence for the human or ecological connections that supplied Rome with this crucial fuel. By examining parallel institutions, this article provides a model for explaining how the city of Rome met the energy demands of it…
Emperors and Ancestors: Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition by Olivier Hekster
Reviewed by: Emperors and Ancestors: Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Traditionby Olivier Hekster Raymond Van Dam Olivier Hekster. Emperors and Ancestors: Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition. Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxv, 395, 109 figures, 5 tables. $135.00. ISBN 978–0-19–873682–0. Augustus insisted that he had restored the Roman Republic. This claim created a di…
Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics by Noel Lenski
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 423 and extended analysis, such as the routinization of magisterial prorogation at the very moment in which Augustus was consolidating his own magisterial powers (41–42), or the Roman “construction” of time as a “social fact” (81–84), or the relationship between the diffusion of Roman citizenship and Roman tolerance for diversity (92–93). Nor is it always clear how, precisely, the various topics are meant to relate to …
CAM GREY. Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside
Journal Article Cam Grey. Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside. Get access Cam Grey. Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside.New York: Cambridge University Press. 2011. Pp. xii, 269. $99.00. Raymond Van Dam Raymond Van Dam University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 232–233, https://doi.org…
Roman Revolution of Constantine
Remembering Constantine at the Milvian Bridge
The Roman Revolution of Constantine
The reign of the emperor Constantine (306–337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome's Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus, the first emperor three centuries earlier. The abandonment of Rome signaled the increasing importance of frontier zones in northern and central Europe and the Middle East. The foundation of Constantinople as a new imperial residence and the rise of Greek as the language of administration previewed the esta…
The World of Gregory of Tours . Kathleen Mitchell , Ian Wood
The Text of Matthew in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea
From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A Reader . Alexander Callander Murray
Law and Empire in Late Antiquity
Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome: A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, ca. 375-425 A.D. Thomas S. Burns
Ausonius of Bordeaux: Genesis of a Gallic Aristocracy. Hagith Sivan
Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul: Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition
Preface * Introduction. The Barbarians in Gaul: In Search of an Identity * Part One. Setting the Stage: Romans and Barbarians in Conflict * Chapter One. The Aristocratic Background of Late Roman Gaul * Chapter Two. Gaul, Italy, and Isolationism in the Fifth Century * Chapter Three. The Barbarian Settlement: Impressions of Harassment, Interference, and Oppression * Part Two. Immediate Responses: The Disruption of Old Institutions * Chapter Four. T…
Views from a Many-Windowed Tower: Studies of Imagination in the Works of Gregory of Tours/Waarnemingen vanuit een toren met vele vensters: Studiën over verbeelding in de werken van Gregorius van Tours…
Gregory of Tours: Glory of the Confessors
Contains a series of anecdotes about the lives and cults of Christians who witnessed to their faith through their exemplary lives. These anecdotes provide important historical evident, first, for the ways bishops and their congregations manipulated traditions about the development of the early Church, and second, for the contemporary functions and meanings of the cults of saints during the sixth century. The spontaneity and literary modesty of ma…
Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul: Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition
Preface * Introduction. The Barbarians in Gaul: In Search of an Identity * Part One. Setting the Stage: Romans and Barbarians in Conflict * Chapter One. The Aristocratic Background of Late Roman Gaul * Chapter Two. Gaul, Italy, and Isolationism in the Fifth Century * Chapter Three. The Barbarian Settlement: Impressions of Harassment, Interference, and Oppression * Part Two. Immediate Responses: The Disruption of Old Institutions * Chapter Four. T…
From Paganism to Christianity at Late Antique Gaza
Law and Empire in Late Antiquity
Sheep in Wolves' Clothing’: The Letters of Consentius to Augustine
The correspondence of Augustine that Johannes Divjak recently discovered and then edited in CSEL lxxxviii has provided new grist for the scholarly mills of commentary and exegesis. One of these letters ( Ep . 11*), sent to Augustine from Consentius, a learned Christian living on one of the Balearic Islands, has been hailed as an important source about ‘the Priscillianist cause’ and ‘secret Priscillianists’ in northern Spain during the early fifth…
Ausonius of Bordeaux: Genesis of a Gallic Aristocracy. Hagith Sivan
From Paganism to Christianity at Late Antique Gaza
Sheep in Wolves' Clothing’: The Letters of Consentius to Augustine
The correspondence of Augustine that Johannes Divjak recently discovered and then edited in CSEL lxxxviii has provided new grist for the scholarly mills of commentary and exegesis. One of these letters ( Ep . 11*), sent to Augustine from Consentius, a learned Christian living on one of the Balearic Islands, has been hailed as an important source about ‘the Priscillianist cause’ and ‘secret Priscillianists’ in northern Spain during the early fifth…
Gregory of Tours: Glory of the Confessors
Contains a series of anecdotes about the lives and cults of Christians who witnessed to their faith through their exemplary lives. These anecdotes provide important historical evident, first, for the ways bishops and their congregations manipulated traditions about the development of the early Church, and second, for the contemporary functions and meanings of the cults of saints during the sixth century. The spontaneity and literary modesty of ma…
Views from a Many-Windowed Tower: Studies of Imagination in the Works of Gregory of Tours/Waarnemingen vanuit een toren met vele vensters: Studiën over verbeelding in de werken van Gregorius van Tours…
Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul: Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition
Preface * Introduction. The Barbarians in Gaul: In Search of an Identity * Part One. Setting the Stage: Romans and Barbarians in Conflict * Chapter One. The Aristocratic Background of Late Roman Gaul * Chapter Two. Gaul, Italy, and Isolationism in the Fifth Century * Chapter Three. The Barbarian Settlement: Impressions of Harassment, Interference, and Oppression * Part Two. Immediate Responses: The Disruption of Old Institutions * Chapter Four. T…
Ausonius of Bordeaux: Genesis of a Gallic Aristocracy. Hagith Sivan
Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome: A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, ca. 375-425 A.D. Thomas S. Burns
Law and Empire in Late Antiquity
From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A Reader . Alexander Callander Murray
The World of Gregory of Tours . Kathleen Mitchell , Ian Wood
The Text of Matthew in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea
The Roman Revolution of Constantine
The reign of the emperor Constantine (306–337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome's Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus, the first emperor three centuries earlier. The abandonment of Rome signaled the increasing importance of frontier zones in northern and central Europe and the Middle East. The foundation of Constantinople as a new imperial residence and the rise of Greek as the language of administration previewed the esta…
Remembering Constantine at the Milvian Bridge
Roman Revolution of Constantine
CAM GREY. Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside
Journal Article Cam Grey. Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside. Get access Cam Grey. Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside.New York: Cambridge University Press. 2011. Pp. xii, 269. $99.00. Raymond Van Dam Raymond Van Dam University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 232–233, https://doi.org…
Modelling the Supply of Wood Fuel in Ancient Rome
Provisioning the city of Rome required complex systems of management and procurement. Despite the importance of wood for baking the grain of the annona and heating the water for baths (among other applications), there is little evidence for the human or ecological connections that supplied Rome with this crucial fuel. By examining parallel institutions, this article provides a model for explaining how the city of Rome met the energy demands of it…
Emperors and Ancestors: Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition by Olivier Hekster
Reviewed by: Emperors and Ancestors: Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Traditionby Olivier Hekster Raymond Van Dam Olivier Hekster. Emperors and Ancestors: Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition. Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxv, 395, 109 figures, 5 tables. $135.00. ISBN 978–0-19–873682–0. Augustus insisted that he had restored the Roman Republic. This claim created a di…
Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics by Noel Lenski
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 423 and extended analysis, such as the routinization of magisterial prorogation at the very moment in which Augustus was consolidating his own magisterial powers (41–42), or the Roman “construction” of time as a “social fact” (81–84), or the relationship between the diffusion of Roman citizenship and Roman tolerance for diversity (92–93). Nor is it always clear how, precisely, the various topics are meant to relate to …
Roman Festivals in the Greek East from the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era by Fritz Graf
Reviewed by: Roman Festivals in the Greek East from the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era by Fritz Graf Raymond Van Dam Fritz Graf. Roman Festivals in the Greek East from the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi, 363. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-107-09211-2. In the Roman Empire ceremonies originally associated with pagan gods continued to flourish even afte…
Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy by Cameron Hawkins
Reviewed by: Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy by Cameron Hawkins Raymond Van Dam Cameron Hawkins. Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 307. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-11544-6. In current scholarship about the ancient economy the application of modern theory is standard practice; but the open question is whether the ancient economy resembled our modern economy or operated according to different…
Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil Wars, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy by Adrastos Omissi
Reviewed by: Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil Wars, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy by Adrastos Omissi Raymond Van Dam Adrastos Omissi. Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil Wars, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxix, 348. $130.00. ISBN 978-0-19-882482-4. The initial transition from Augustus to his stepson Ti…
Rome's Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity by Jason Moralee
Reviewed by: Rome's Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity by Jason Moralee Raymond Van Dam Jason Moralee. Rome's Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity. Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxv, 278. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-049227-4. The symbolic high point of ancient Rome was the Capitoline Hill, crowned with the great Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. In Vergil's Aeneid the h…
A History of the Roman Equestrian Order by Caillan Davenport
Reviewed by: A History of the Roman Equestrian Order by Caillan Davenport Raymond Van Dam Caillan Davenport. A History of the Roman Equestrian Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxv, 717. $180.00. ISBN 978-1-107-03253-8. In ancient societies ownership of herds of horses was typically an indication of power, wealth, and prestige. Victories and bloodlines were advantages thoroughbreds shared with rulers and aristocrats, and Rom…
Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History. By James Corke-Webster
Eusebius of Caesarea was the founder of early Christian studies. Working in the large library at Caesarea in Palestine during the later third and early fourth centuries, Eusebius was a prolific author who generously sprinkled his many treatises with extended extracts from both Christian and non-Christian writers. His Ecclesiastical History has been especially influential. Modern scholars read his Ecclesiastical History for information about peopl…
Imperial Fathers and Their Sons: Licinius, Constantine, and the Council of Nicaea
During the formative period of disputation over the theology of Arius, the emperor Licinius ruled over the eastern Roman provinces. The emperor Constantine was directly involved in the doctrinal controversy only after his victory over Licinius in 324. But Constantine’s engagement in imperial politics had already shaped his thinking about theology. In imperial successions sons were sometimes promoted but also sometimes overlooked. Emperors introdu…
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