Laurens E Tacoma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3095344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurens E Tacoma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurens E |
| FAMILY NAME | Tacoma |
| SIGNATURE | TACOMA L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University, The Netherlands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Invective in Fake News
This paper analyzes the invectives contained in a series of quasi-documents that are usually called the Acts of the Pagan Martyrs or, more neutrally, the Acts of the Alexandrians. These Acts consist of—usually quite fragmentarily preserved—papyri that report confrontations between Roman emperors and members of the Alexandrian elite. Invariably something goes badly awry in the encounter, and while the Alexandrians and the emperor exchange increasi…
Venster op het verleden
Window to the past? Roman archives in the archival turn Ancient historians frequently depend on documents from ancient archives to conduct their research. While it may be tempting to view the archive as a ‘window to the past’, an impartial repository of knowledge, this article uses archival turn theory – a theory rooted in (post) colonial history – to analyse ancient archives from the Roman provinces. Specifically, it delves into a family archive…
Scripting Politics
This chapter analyses the seventh characteristic of Roman political culture. The way that political institutions were functioning was based on the claim that they were central to society. Reality was different, and this produced ambiguities in the way elites positioned themselves. These can be analysed on the basis of the Ravenna papyri, which contain a number of reports of meetings of the city council of Ravenna and some other Italian cities. Th…
Draining Resources
This chapter discusses the sixth characteristic of Roman political culture: ambiguity in the agency of benefactions. It is analysed on the basis of a small dossier concerning a drainage project carried out in the reign of the Ostrogothic king Theoderic. Members of the elite were supposed to engage voluntarily in benefactions that were directed at the wider community. In reality social expectations were very strong. The Roman period of single rule…
Shouting down the Dead
This chapter analyses the fourth characteristic of Roman political culture, the ambiguities that could occur in those situations where members of political institutions tried to exercise real power and influence decisions. As their power was nominal rather than real, strategies arose that could be used to force decisions regardless. The tensions surrounding imperial successions are fully visible in a report preserved in the Historia Augusta of th…
The Constraints of Patronage
This chapter analyses the second characteristic of Roman political culture: it was structured by a specific form of patronage that was both pervasive, encapsulating wide sections of the population in its network, but also weak, in the sense that ties could shift relatively easily. How it structured unstable hierarchical networks can be seen in the local elections that were held in Pompeii. The campaigns for these elections can be analysed thanks …
Debating Space
This chapter analyses the first tension around which Roman political culture revolved: the restricted space for debate. The issue is discussed on the basis of Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis . With the coming of the Principate the number of issues on which the senate could take decisions was reduced, as was its capacity to debate them seriously. At the same time, the emperor positioned himself as the upholder of the social order and as protector of the …
Making Fun of Elections
This chapter analyses the third characteristic of Roman political culture, the tension between solemnity and self-conscious reflexivity. It does so on the basis of two letters of Pliny the Younger about jokes that were made during senatorial elections. From his letters it emerges that campaigns for office continued to matter immensely for senators, despite the fact that the balance of power had shifted with the advent of single rule. During the e…
The Economy of Favours
This chapter discusses the fifth characteristic of Roman political culture; the fact that competition for honour between cities became locked in expectations about the mutual behaviour of its participants. It analyses this on the basis of the rescript of Constantine to the Umbrian city of Hispellum. In the Roman period under single rule competition between cities continued unabated, but the direction and nature of it changed. What might be regard…
James Corke-Webster, Eusebius and Empire. Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Roman Political Culture
This book offers an analysis of Roman political culture in Italy from the first to the sixth century AD on the basis of seven case studies. Its main contention is that, during the period in which Italy was subject to single rule, Italy’s political culture had a specific form. It was the product of the continued existence of two traditional political institutions: the senate in the city of Rome and the local city councils in the rest of Italy. Und…
Writing Migration
Bones, Stones, and Monica
Index Nominum
Index Geographicus
Index Rerum
Preliminary Material
Index Locorum
The Value of Labour
Contextualising Condemnation to Hard Labour in the Roman Empire
Imperial estates, Egypt
Imperial estates were personal property of members of the imperial family, as distinct from property belonging to the Roman state.
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Imperial estates, Egypt
Imperial estates were personal property of members of the imperial family, as distinct from property belonging to the Roman state.
Contextualising Condemnation to Hard Labour in the Roman Empire
Index Nominum
Index Geographicus
Index Rerum
Preliminary Material
Index Locorum
The Value of Labour
Writing Migration
Bones, Stones, and Monica
Scripting Politics
This chapter analyses the seventh characteristic of Roman political culture. The way that political institutions were functioning was based on the claim that they were central to society. Reality was different, and this produced ambiguities in the way elites positioned themselves. These can be analysed on the basis of the Ravenna papyri, which contain a number of reports of meetings of the city council of Ravenna and some other Italian cities. Th…
Draining Resources
This chapter discusses the sixth characteristic of Roman political culture: ambiguity in the agency of benefactions. It is analysed on the basis of a small dossier concerning a drainage project carried out in the reign of the Ostrogothic king Theoderic. Members of the elite were supposed to engage voluntarily in benefactions that were directed at the wider community. In reality social expectations were very strong. The Roman period of single rule…
Shouting down the Dead
This chapter analyses the fourth characteristic of Roman political culture, the ambiguities that could occur in those situations where members of political institutions tried to exercise real power and influence decisions. As their power was nominal rather than real, strategies arose that could be used to force decisions regardless. The tensions surrounding imperial successions are fully visible in a report preserved in the Historia Augusta of th…
The Constraints of Patronage
This chapter analyses the second characteristic of Roman political culture: it was structured by a specific form of patronage that was both pervasive, encapsulating wide sections of the population in its network, but also weak, in the sense that ties could shift relatively easily. How it structured unstable hierarchical networks can be seen in the local elections that were held in Pompeii. The campaigns for these elections can be analysed thanks …
Debating Space
This chapter analyses the first tension around which Roman political culture revolved: the restricted space for debate. The issue is discussed on the basis of Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis . With the coming of the Principate the number of issues on which the senate could take decisions was reduced, as was its capacity to debate them seriously. At the same time, the emperor positioned himself as the upholder of the social order and as protector of the …
Making Fun of Elections
This chapter analyses the third characteristic of Roman political culture, the tension between solemnity and self-conscious reflexivity. It does so on the basis of two letters of Pliny the Younger about jokes that were made during senatorial elections. From his letters it emerges that campaigns for office continued to matter immensely for senators, despite the fact that the balance of power had shifted with the advent of single rule. During the e…
The Economy of Favours
This chapter discusses the fifth characteristic of Roman political culture; the fact that competition for honour between cities became locked in expectations about the mutual behaviour of its participants. It analyses this on the basis of the rescript of Constantine to the Umbrian city of Hispellum. In the Roman period under single rule competition between cities continued unabated, but the direction and nature of it changed. What might be regard…
James Corke-Webster, Eusebius and Empire. Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Roman Political Culture
This book offers an analysis of Roman political culture in Italy from the first to the sixth century AD on the basis of seven case studies. Its main contention is that, during the period in which Italy was subject to single rule, Italy’s political culture had a specific form. It was the product of the continued existence of two traditional political institutions: the senate in the city of Rome and the local city councils in the rest of Italy. Und…
Venster op het verleden
Window to the past? Roman archives in the archival turn Ancient historians frequently depend on documents from ancient archives to conduct their research. While it may be tempting to view the archive as a ‘window to the past’, an impartial repository of knowledge, this article uses archival turn theory – a theory rooted in (post) colonial history – to analyse ancient archives from the Roman provinces. Specifically, it delves into a family archive…
Invective in Fake News
This paper analyzes the invectives contained in a series of quasi-documents that are usually called the Acts of the Pagan Martyrs or, more neutrally, the Acts of the Alexandrians. These Acts consist of—usually quite fragmentarily preserved—papyri that report confrontations between Roman emperors and members of the Alexandrian elite. Invariably something goes badly awry in the encounter, and while the Alexandrians and the emperor exchange increasi…
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