Keith Bradley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Bradley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradley |
| SIGNATURE | BRADLEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Publilius Syrus and the Anxiety of Continuity
A socio-cultural study of the Sententiae of the one-time slave Publilius Syrus, stressing their durability and influence in the Roman Imperial age as a vehicle by which young children were instructed in traditional Roman norms and values, including the normative institution of slavery
The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta by David Rohrbacher
Reviewed by: The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta by David Rohrbacher K. R. Bradley David Rohrbacher. The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. Pp. xiii, 246. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-299-30600-7. Not a forgery, hoax, or imposture, but the playful contrivance of a single author (not six) composed in the early fifth century for a small circle of érudits interested in the nature of biography a…
Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empire by W. V. Harris
Reviewed by: Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empire by W. V. Harris K. R. Bradley W. V. Harris. Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xxi, 357. $49.99. ISBN 978-1-107-15271-7. A remarkable book from a preeminent ancient historian. Remarkable first for its scope: a history of the rise and fall of Rome's empire across a huge span of more than a thousand years composed with an alarmingly competent…
The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture by Peter Garnsey, Richard Saller (review)
Reviewed by: The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture by Peter Garnsey, Richard Saller K. R. Bradley Peter Garnsey and Richard Saller. The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture. 2nd edition. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. Pp. xviii, 328. $29.95 (pb.). ISBN 978–0-520–28598–9. With Jaś Elsner, Martin Goodman, Richard Gordon and Greg Woolf. The first edition of this book was published in 1987 and quickly established itself…
Images of Childhood in Classical Antiquity
The Bitter Chain of Slavery
des principales caractéristiques de l'esclavage dans le monde gréco-romain antique, avec un accent particulier sur sa longue durée et les mécanismes de la gestion des esclaves. L'accent est mis sur les sources conventionnelles pour la compréhension des questions historiques entrant en jeu
Engaging with Slavery
Recovering Hadrian
This essay reviews ways in which the emperor Hadrian has been portrayed in works of history, biography, and fiction. It is a historiographical study that implicitly raises questions about how the life and personality of a particular historical figure might be recovered and understood
Apuleius and Antonine Rome: Historical Essays
Apuleius and Antonine Rome features outstanding scholarship by Keith Bradley on the Latin author Apuleius of Madauros and on the second-century Roman world in which Apuleius lived. Bradley discusses Apuleius’ work in the context of social relations (especially the family and household), religiosity in all its diversity and complexity, and cultural interactions between the imperial centre and the provincial periphery.These essays examine the Apolo…
Resisting slavery at Rome
The orator Pupius Piso, wishing to avoid being unnecessarily disturbed, ordered his slaves to answer his questions but not add anything to their answers. He then wanted to give a welcome to Clodius, who was holding office, and gave instructions that he should be invited to dinner. He set up a splendid feast. The time came, the other guests arrived, Clodius was expected. Piso kept sending the slave who was responsible for invitations to see if he …
Slavery in the Roman Republic
INTRODUCTION The Republican period of Rome's history occupied half a millennium, from the late sixth century to the late first century bc . It was characterised by a form of government that distributed public rights and responsibilities among a group of interdependent entities – magistrates, senate, citizens – in a cohesive system intended to prevent the monopolisation of political power by a single individual. At the beginning of the period Rome…
The Cambridge World History of Slavery
Volume 1 in the new Cambridge World History of Slavery surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultur…
Freedom and Slavery
Tacitus famously opens his account of the Julii and Claudii with a disquisition on the history at Rome of freedom and monarchy. The rapid survey from the kings to the foundation of the Principate prepares for the work's major theme, the demise of political freedom under a sinister system of government established and maintained by a dynasty of repressive autocrats. Tacitus in his own person is a paradoxical symbol of the intimate bond in Roman cu…
Graeco-Roman Slave Markets: Fact or Fiction? (review)
Reviewed by: Graeco-Roman Slave Markets: Fact or Fiction? Keith Bradley Monika Trümper. Graeco-Roman Slave Markets: Fact or Fiction? Oxford/Oakville: Oxbow Books, 2009. Pp. xii + 148. US $ 45.00 ISBN 978-0-9774094-8-8 (cloth). The emergence of a fragmentary bill of sale in London recording, in about the year AD 100, the transfer of Fortunata, a Gallic slave-girl (puella), by a [End Page 185] certain Albicianus to a man named Vegetus, impresses up…
Appearing for the Defence: Apuleius on Display
Hadrian, Yourcenar, Syme
Dans les conférences Bryce de 1984, Ronald Syme fit une critique du célèbre roman de Marguerite Yourcenar, Les Mémoires d'Hadrien . Une étude de ce texte révèle les liens entre l'historien et la romancière
Roman Slavery: Retrospect and Prospect
This paper is the result of an invitation made to the author to assess his own contribution to the history of Roman slavery for presentation at a conference held at the University of Edinburgh in 2007. It describes the circumstances under which he began the study of Roman slavery (with special attention to the influence of contemporary studies of New World slavery), indicates the principal questions asked and answers proposed, and points to areas…
On Captives under the Principate
shows two barbarian captives sitting on aferculum, both men, their hands bound behind their backs, about to be hoisted into the air for display in a triumphal procession (Plate 1). The lower register of the Gemma Augustea shows two pairs of prisoners: to the left a long-haired and bare-chested man sits on the ground, looking defiant, his arms tied behind his back, while a woman sitting at his side rests her head on her hands seemingly exhausted a…
Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations
Animalizing the Slave: The Truth of Fiction
In his discussion of natural slavery in the first book of the Politics (1254a17–1254b39), Aristotle notoriously assimilates human slaves to non-human animals. Natural slaves, Aristotle maintains (1254b16–20), are those who differ from others in the way that the body differs from the soul, or in the way that an animal differs from a human being; and into this category fall ‘all whose function is bodily service, and who produce their best when they…
Romanitas and the Roman Family: The Evidence of Apuleius’s Apology
In AD 158/9 al Sabratha in Roman Tripolitania, Apuleius of Madauros was accused of having used magic to entice into marriage the wealthy Oean widow Aemilia Pudentilla. Apuleius was tried before the proconsul of Africa and spoke in his own defence. The speech he delivered, the Apology, is an important document for the social history of Roman North Africa in the second century. This paper analyses the information the Apology provides on family hist…
Fictive Families: Family and Household in the "Metamorphoses" of Apuleius
I BEGIN WITH A DESCRIPTION of a wealthy Roman family. Its head is a husband and father who owns urban property and estates in the country, together with many slaves who serve as domestics and farm workers. He and his wife belong to an extensive circle of relatives, cognati and affines, and their house in the city is fifll of vernae and alumni. It is also used to receiving clients. The husband and wife have a virgin daughter who is sought in marri…
The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic
Slavery and Society at Rome: Key Themes in Ancient History
Contending with Conversion: Reflections on the Reformation of Lucius the Ass
ON THE BEACH AT Cenchreae the fugitive ass awakes from his night-time sleep aware of the all-encompassing presence around him of the supreme goddess. Sensing the chance to end once and for all the misfortunes that have plagued him since his catastrophic, metamorphosing experiment with magic, he purifies himself by bathing in the sea, then prays to the almighty power to restore him to human form. Asleep once more, he has a vision of the goddess em…
On the Roman Slave supply and Slavebreeding
(1987). On the Roman Slave supply and Slavebreeding. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 8, Classical Slavery, pp. 42-64
On Captives under the Principate
shows two barbarian captives sitting on aferculum, both men, their hands bound behind their backs, about to be hoisted into the air for display in a triumphal procession (Plate 1). The lower register of the Gemma Augustea shows two pairs of prisoners: to the left a long-haired and bare-chested man sits on the ground, looking defiant, his arms tied behind his back, while a woman sitting at his side rests her head on her hands seemingly exhausted a…
Fictive Families: Family and Household in the "Metamorphoses" of Apuleius
I BEGIN WITH A DESCRIPTION of a wealthy Roman family. Its head is a husband and father who owns urban property and estates in the country, together with many slaves who serve as domestics and farm workers. He and his wife belong to an extensive circle of relatives, cognati and affines, and their house in the city is fifll of vernae and alumni. It is also used to receiving clients. The husband and wife have a virgin daughter who is sought in marri…
Law, Magic, and Culture in the "Apologia" of Apuleius
IN A.D. 158 at Tripolitanian Sabratha in Africa Proconsularis, Apuleius of Madauros, the author of the Golden Ass, was tried before the proconsul Claudius Maximus for having allegedly practised magic in order to bewitch and entice into marriage a wealthy, fortyish widow named Pudentilla. His accuser was Sicinius Aemilianus, a brother of Pudentilla's first husband, who was determined to keep control of Pudentilla's substantial fortune-acquired in …
Community and Society in Roman Italy
Slaves and the Conspiracy of Catiline
Graeco-Roman Slave Markets: Fact or Fiction? (review)
Reviewed by: Graeco-Roman Slave Markets: Fact or Fiction? Keith Bradley Monika Trümper. Graeco-Roman Slave Markets: Fact or Fiction? Oxford/Oakville: Oxbow Books, 2009. Pp. xii + 148. US $ 45.00 ISBN 978-0-9774094-8-8 (cloth). The emergence of a fragmentary bill of sale in London recording, in about the year AD 100, the transfer of Fortunata, a Gallic slave-girl (puella), by a [End Page 185] certain Albicianus to a man named Vegetus, impresses up…
The Political Economy of ‘Radical’ Policy: An Analysis of the Scottish Daily News Worker Co-operative
Within six months of taking office in February 1974 Labour had funded three worker co-operatives: Meriden, Kirkby Manufacturing and the Scottish Daily News (SDN). All three ventures were the subject of considerable economic and political controversy. The Conservatives attacked them as ‘wasteful projects’ which would only encourage ‘creeping militancy’; theDaily Telegraphreferred to them as a ‘diet of sub-Trotskyism’. Michael Heseltine, Conservati…
Seneca: The Humanist at the Court of Nero
Apuleius and Antonine Rome: Historical Essays
Apuleius and Antonine Rome features outstanding scholarship by Keith Bradley on the Latin author Apuleius of Madauros and on the second-century Roman world in which Apuleius lived. Bradley discusses Apuleius’ work in the context of social relations (especially the family and household), religiosity in all its diversity and complexity, and cultural interactions between the imperial centre and the provincial periphery.These essays examine the Apolo…
Animalizing the Slave: The Truth of Fiction
In his discussion of natural slavery in the first book of the Politics (1254a17–1254b39), Aristotle notoriously assimilates human slaves to non-human animals. Natural slaves, Aristotle maintains (1254b16–20), are those who differ from others in the way that the body differs from the soul, or in the way that an animal differs from a human being; and into this category fall ‘all whose function is bodily service, and who produce their best when they…
Contending with Conversion: Reflections on the Reformation of Lucius the Ass
ON THE BEACH AT Cenchreae the fugitive ass awakes from his night-time sleep aware of the all-encompassing presence around him of the supreme goddess. Sensing the chance to end once and for all the misfortunes that have plagued him since his catastrophic, metamorphosing experiment with magic, he purifies himself by bathing in the sea, then prays to the almighty power to restore him to human form. Asleep once more, he has a vision of the goddess em…
Managing Owners: The National Freight Consortium in Perspective
Journal Article Managing Owners: The National Freight Consortium in Perspective Get access Managing Owners: The National Freight Consortium in Perspective. By KEITH BRADLEY and AARON NEJAD. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. x+182. £27.50 hardback, US $54.50 hardback. ISBN 0 521 36023 4.) Paul A. Geroski Paul A. Geroski London Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The …
The Radical Potential of Cash Nexus Breaks
The Economy of the Roman Empire
The Economy of the Roman Empire
Slaves and the Conspiracy of Catiline
The Political Economy of ‘Radical’ Policy: An Analysis of the Scottish Daily News Worker Co-operative
Within six months of taking office in February 1974 Labour had funded three worker co-operatives: Meriden, Kirkby Manufacturing and the Scottish Daily News (SDN). All three ventures were the subject of considerable economic and political controversy. The Conservatives attacked them as ‘wasteful projects’ which would only encourage ‘creeping militancy’; theDaily Telegraphreferred to them as a ‘diet of sub-Trotskyism’. Michael Heseltine, Conservati…
The Radical Potential of Cash Nexus Breaks
Suetonius' Life of Nero: An Historical Commentary
Libertus: Recherches sur les rapports patron-affranchi a la fin de la republique romaine
Worker + Capitalism = The New Industrial Relations
Worker Capitalism makes the case for a pragmatic, government-assisted program of worker and worker-community ownership of businesses as a means of economic redevelopment, particularly in older industrial countries. Worker ownership, the authors contend, is a potentially superior alternative to industrial policies such as subsidies or protection. They seek to isolate the factors necessary for successful employee ownership and develop a general tak…
The Performance of Labour-Managed Firms
Journal Article The Performance of Labour-Managed Firms Get access The Performance of Labour-Managed Firms. Edited by FRANK H. STEPHEN. (London: Macmillan, 1982. Pp. xv + 280. £20.00.) Keith Bradley Keith Bradley London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 375, 1 September 1984, Pages 681–683, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232729 Published: 01 September 1984
Seneca: The Humanist at the Court of Nero
Worker Capitalism: The New Industrial Relations
Worker Capitalism: The New Industrial Relations
Approaches to the Roman Empire: A Perspective
MIRIAM T. GRIFFIN. Nero: The End of A Dynasty. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. Pp. 320. $25 (US); RICHARD J.A. TALBERT. The Senate of Imperial Rome. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. Pp. xviii, 583. $60 (US); J.B. CAMPBELL. The Emperor and the Roman Army 31 BC-AD 235. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. xx, 468. $54 (US); ROBERT L. WILKEN. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them. New Haven and London: Yale…
Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire. A Study in Social Control
This is a reprint in paper covers of a work originally published by Collection Latomus. The study offers a broad explanation of how the Roman system of slavery was maintained in the imperial age and describes the adverse conditions under which the majority of slaves in the Roman world spent their lives
Quality Circles and Managerial Interests
Modern marriage and ancient evidence
On the Roman Slave supply and Slavebreeding
(1987). On the Roman Slave supply and Slavebreeding. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 8, Classical Slavery, pp. 42-64
The Roman Slave Wars, 140–70 B.C.: A Comparative Perspective
Roman Slave Law
Edward Gibbon and the Roman Empire
(1990). Edward Gibbon and the Roman Empire. The International History Review: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 105-110
Servus Onerosus: Roman law and the troublesome Slave
Managing Owners: The National Freight Consortium in Perspective
Journal Article Managing Owners: The National Freight Consortium in Perspective Get access Managing Owners: The National Freight Consortium in Perspective. By KEITH BRADLEY and AARON NEJAD. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. x+182. £27.50 hardback, US $54.50 hardback. ISBN 0 521 36023 4.) Paul A. Geroski Paul A. Geroski London Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The …
Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History
These essays on family life in ancient Rome offer a timely and provocative new characterization of how this most elementary component of Roman society was structured. Recognizing that a traditional nuclear model is necessary for an understanding of Roman family organization, Keith R. Bradley argues that a broader, more extensive context must be established if this structure is to be fully appreciated. A seminal contribution to Roman social histor…
Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History
Community and Society in Roman Italy
Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History
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