Cam Grey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3769199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cam Grey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cam |
| FAMILY NAME | Grey |
| SIGNATURE | GREY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Risk and Vulnerability on the Campanian Plain: The Vesuvius Eruption of A.D. 472
The projects of social history, disaster studies, and archaeology deliberately tend to eschew consideration of events, focusing instead on processes and structures that unfold gradually over time. The eruption of the Somma-Vesuvius volcano in Campania, Italy, in 472 presents tangible markers of a specific moment, although the absence of local textual evidence and the strong hints of rapid re-exploitation of the rich and fertile soils of the regio…
Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to Angkor ed. by Harvey Weiss
Reviewed by: Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to Angkor ed. by Harvey Weiss Cam Grey Harvey Weiss (ed.). Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to Angkor. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 331. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-932919-9. Water matters. Its presence and effective management are necessary preconditions for the various and varied agricultural practices that have characteristically underpinned complex soc…
Writing agrarian histories of the Roman world: Seasonality and scale as tools of analysis
Agrarian labor history of Greco-Roman antiquity—indeed, labor history of the period more broadly—does not look very much like the agrarian labor histories of other periods. Many explanations might be adduced for why this is so, including the very particular circumstances that led to the development of ancient history as a discipline separate from (yet intimately related to) the humanistic intellectual traditions of classical studies in the last d…
Familiarity, Repetition, and Quotidian Movement in Roman Tuscany
This study investigates the connectivity between a number of places in an ancient Tuscan landscape by developing and testing hypotheses about mobility around and across the region. Interpretatively, it makes use of the concepts of familiarity and repetition in evaluating the quotidian experience of a landscape. Methodologically, it employs a multi-stranded approach, combining traditional topographical and archaeological assessments with GIS and g…
Hadrian the Traveler: Motifs and Expressions of Roman Imperial Power in the Vita Hadriani
This paper explores the links between travel and power that the journeys of Hadrian in the Vita Hadriani reveal, and suggests that these links have broader implications for our interpretation of the Historia Augusta as a whole, and of its author's literary skill and political awareness. It offers a close reading of the contexts in which Hadrian is depicted traveling in the Vita Hadriani, and argues that they may be interpreted as part of an inter…
Historicizing the Lived Experience of Violence: Bryen's Violence in Roman Egypt
Ari Byren's Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation (2013) effectively inserts itself into two complementary fields of inquiry and discussion within the field of classical studies. First, it offers a detailed treatment of the social history of small communities in Roman Egypt, providing an important contribution to the study of violence in antiquity—a topic that has gained interest in recent years. Second, it is an extended medit…
Shock, Horror, or Same Old Same Old? Everyday Violence in Augustine’s Africa
Recent studies of violence in the ancient Mediterranean world have stressed just how radically undertheorized the phenomenon is in modern scholarly literature. In response to this, they have identified a particular aspect or expression of violence, then used that as a foundation for generating a theoretical framework for understanding violent behavior more generally. But what relationship does general, generalized, or everyday violence have to th…
Excavating the Roman peasant II: Excavations at Case Nuove, Cinigiano (GR)
This report details the survey, excavations and materials analysis carried out at Case Nuove (GR) in Tuscany, a site identified by surface survey as a possible rural house, but which excavation and materials analysis suggest was a small-scale agro-processing point of late Republican date. Through accompanying analysis of pollen and land-use data, the article considers the problems this type of site — the stand-alone agro-processing point — presen…
Coloni adscripti
Coloni adscripti were a particular type of tenant or estate laborer that emerged in the period following the tax reforms of Diocletian and his colleagues in the Tetrarchy at the end of the third century CE While dating and exact chronology are unclear, coloni adscripti are first solidly attested in the late fourth century. A colonus (censibus) adscriptus was an individual whose name was added to the tax return ( profession or iugatio ) of his lan…
Colonate
The term “colonate” provides a convenient shorthand for a phenomenon that has long been a staple in debates over the transformation of rural labor relations in Late Antiquity.
Slavery in the late Roman world
THE STATE OF THE QUESTION The fate of slaves and slavery in the late Roman world is a subject that may be taken as a weather vane for prevailing trends in scholarship concerning late antiquity. The late third to fifth centuries were long regarded as an awkward appendage to the classical period, or a prequel to the mediaeval world, to be dealt with swiftly in both cases. Surveys of slaves and slavery tended to follow suit. Standard accounts of sla…
Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the 'small politics' of rural communities in the Late Roman world. It places the diverse fates of those communities within a generalized model for exploring rural social systems. Fundamentally, social interactions in rural contexts in the period revolved around the desire of individual households to insure themselves against catastrophic subsistence failure and the need of the communities in which…
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…
Civil War? What Civil War?: Usurpers in the Historia Augusta
The third century ce witnessed a progression of military adventurers seizing and briefly holding imperial power, impelled and expelled by the armies at whose heads they marched. In form, if not in name, this was a period of civil war. Yet in a sort of grim paradox, Rome, at least in the mind of its citizens, was free of civil wars when about to be no more. This chapter focuses on usurpations during the reign of Gallienus, as recounted in the Hist…
Two Young Lovers: An Abduction Marriage and Its Consequences in Fifth-Century Gaul
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Contextualizing Colonatus: The Origo of the Late Roman Empire
Building on recent scholarship concerning the ‘colonate of the late Roman Empire’, and focusing in particular upon the vocabulary used in the legal sources, this paper offers three propositions. First, the colonatus of the legislation was not a legal shorthand for the ‘colonate’ of modern historiographical debate. Second, the coloni of the legislation were not a discrete group of individuals subjected to a definable, articulated set of restrictio…
Contextualizing Colonatus: The Origo of the Late Roman Empire
Building on recent scholarship concerning the ‘colonate of the late Roman Empire’, and focusing in particular upon the vocabulary used in the legal sources, this paper offers three propositions. First, the colonatus of the legislation was not a legal shorthand for the ‘colonate’ of modern historiographical debate. Second, the coloni of the legislation were not a discrete group of individuals subjected to a definable, articulated set of restrictio…
Revisiting the ‘problem’ of agri deserti in the Late Roman Empire
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Controlling the Urban Mob: The colonatus perpetuus of CTh 14.18.1
European Adventurers of Northern India, 1785 to 1849
This is a collection of the careers of over 75 Europeans who served in the native armies of India and trained their forces. The book mentions a host of officers both known and unknown, and further more, combatants and non-combatants. Among the non-combatants are included medical men, engineers, aquarians etc. The era discussed ranges from 1758 to 1849. The book is a reprint of the 1924 edition. It includes: European officers of Ranjit Singh's arm…
European Adventurers of Northern India, 1785 to 1849
This is a collection of the careers of over 75 Europeans who served in the native armies of India and trained their forces. The book mentions a host of officers both known and unknown, and further more, combatants and non-combatants. Among the non-combatants are included medical men, engineers, aquarians etc. The era discussed ranges from 1758 to 1849. The book is a reprint of the 1924 edition. It includes: European officers of Ranjit Singh's arm…
Excavating the Roman peasant II: Excavations at Case Nuove, Cinigiano (GR)
This report details the survey, excavations and materials analysis carried out at Case Nuove (GR) in Tuscany, a site identified by surface survey as a possible rural house, but which excavation and materials analysis suggest was a small-scale agro-processing point of late Republican date. Through accompanying analysis of pollen and land-use data, the article considers the problems this type of site — the stand-alone agro-processing point — presen…
Familiarity, Repetition, and Quotidian Movement in Roman Tuscany
This study investigates the connectivity between a number of places in an ancient Tuscan landscape by developing and testing hypotheses about mobility around and across the region. Interpretatively, it makes use of the concepts of familiarity and repetition in evaluating the quotidian experience of a landscape. Methodologically, it employs a multi-stranded approach, combining traditional topographical and archaeological assessments with GIS and g…
Revisiting the ‘problem’ of agri deserti in the Late Roman Empire
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Shock, Horror, or Same Old Same Old? Everyday Violence in Augustine’s Africa
Recent studies of violence in the ancient Mediterranean world have stressed just how radically undertheorized the phenomenon is in modern scholarly literature. In response to this, they have identified a particular aspect or expression of violence, then used that as a foundation for generating a theoretical framework for understanding violent behavior more generally. But what relationship does general, generalized, or everyday violence have to th…
Controlling the Urban Mob: The colonatus perpetuus of CTh 14.18.1
European Adventurers of Northern India, 1785 to 1849
This is a collection of the careers of over 75 Europeans who served in the native armies of India and trained their forces. The book mentions a host of officers both known and unknown, and further more, combatants and non-combatants. Among the non-combatants are included medical men, engineers, aquarians etc. The era discussed ranges from 1758 to 1849. The book is a reprint of the 1924 edition. It includes: European officers of Ranjit Singh's arm…
Controlling the Urban Mob: The colonatus perpetuus of CTh 14.18.1
Contextualizing Colonatus: The Origo of the Late Roman Empire
Building on recent scholarship concerning the ‘colonate of the late Roman Empire’, and focusing in particular upon the vocabulary used in the legal sources, this paper offers three propositions. First, the colonatus of the legislation was not a legal shorthand for the ‘colonate’ of modern historiographical debate. Second, the coloni of the legislation were not a discrete group of individuals subjected to a definable, articulated set of restrictio…
Contextualizing Colonatus: The Origo of the Late Roman Empire
Building on recent scholarship concerning the ‘colonate of the late Roman Empire’, and focusing in particular upon the vocabulary used in the legal sources, this paper offers three propositions. First, the colonatus of the legislation was not a legal shorthand for the ‘colonate’ of modern historiographical debate. Second, the coloni of the legislation were not a discrete group of individuals subjected to a definable, articulated set of restrictio…
Revisiting the ‘problem’ of agri deserti in the Late Roman Empire
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Two Young Lovers: An Abduction Marriage and Its Consequences in Fifth-Century Gaul
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Civil War? What Civil War?: Usurpers in the Historia Augusta
The third century ce witnessed a progression of military adventurers seizing and briefly holding imperial power, impelled and expelled by the armies at whose heads they marched. In form, if not in name, this was a period of civil war. Yet in a sort of grim paradox, Rome, at least in the mind of its citizens, was free of civil wars when about to be no more. This chapter focuses on usurpations during the reign of Gallienus, as recounted in the Hist…
Slavery in the late Roman world
THE STATE OF THE QUESTION The fate of slaves and slavery in the late Roman world is a subject that may be taken as a weather vane for prevailing trends in scholarship concerning late antiquity. The late third to fifth centuries were long regarded as an awkward appendage to the classical period, or a prequel to the mediaeval world, to be dealt with swiftly in both cases. Surveys of slaves and slavery tended to follow suit. Standard accounts of sla…
Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the 'small politics' of rural communities in the Late Roman world. It places the diverse fates of those communities within a generalized model for exploring rural social systems. Fundamentally, social interactions in rural contexts in the period revolved around the desire of individual households to insure themselves against catastrophic subsistence failure and the need of the communities in which…
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…
Coloni adscripti
Coloni adscripti were a particular type of tenant or estate laborer that emerged in the period following the tax reforms of Diocletian and his colleagues in the Tetrarchy at the end of the third century CE While dating and exact chronology are unclear, coloni adscripti are first solidly attested in the late fourth century. A colonus (censibus) adscriptus was an individual whose name was added to the tax return ( profession or iugatio ) of his lan…
Colonate
The term “colonate” provides a convenient shorthand for a phenomenon that has long been a staple in debates over the transformation of rural labor relations in Late Antiquity.
Shock, Horror, or Same Old Same Old? Everyday Violence in Augustine’s Africa
Recent studies of violence in the ancient Mediterranean world have stressed just how radically undertheorized the phenomenon is in modern scholarly literature. In response to this, they have identified a particular aspect or expression of violence, then used that as a foundation for generating a theoretical framework for understanding violent behavior more generally. But what relationship does general, generalized, or everyday violence have to th…
Excavating the Roman peasant II: Excavations at Case Nuove, Cinigiano (GR)
This report details the survey, excavations and materials analysis carried out at Case Nuove (GR) in Tuscany, a site identified by surface survey as a possible rural house, but which excavation and materials analysis suggest was a small-scale agro-processing point of late Republican date. Through accompanying analysis of pollen and land-use data, the article considers the problems this type of site — the stand-alone agro-processing point — presen…
Historicizing the Lived Experience of Violence: Bryen's Violence in Roman Egypt
Ari Byren's Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation (2013) effectively inserts itself into two complementary fields of inquiry and discussion within the field of classical studies. First, it offers a detailed treatment of the social history of small communities in Roman Egypt, providing an important contribution to the study of violence in antiquity—a topic that has gained interest in recent years. Second, it is an extended medit…
Familiarity, Repetition, and Quotidian Movement in Roman Tuscany
This study investigates the connectivity between a number of places in an ancient Tuscan landscape by developing and testing hypotheses about mobility around and across the region. Interpretatively, it makes use of the concepts of familiarity and repetition in evaluating the quotidian experience of a landscape. Methodologically, it employs a multi-stranded approach, combining traditional topographical and archaeological assessments with GIS and g…
Hadrian the Traveler: Motifs and Expressions of Roman Imperial Power in the Vita Hadriani
This paper explores the links between travel and power that the journeys of Hadrian in the Vita Hadriani reveal, and suggests that these links have broader implications for our interpretation of the Historia Augusta as a whole, and of its author's literary skill and political awareness. It offers a close reading of the contexts in which Hadrian is depicted traveling in the Vita Hadriani, and argues that they may be interpreted as part of an inter…
Writing agrarian histories of the Roman world: Seasonality and scale as tools of analysis
Agrarian labor history of Greco-Roman antiquity—indeed, labor history of the period more broadly—does not look very much like the agrarian labor histories of other periods. Many explanations might be adduced for why this is so, including the very particular circumstances that led to the development of ancient history as a discipline separate from (yet intimately related to) the humanistic intellectual traditions of classical studies in the last d…
Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to Angkor ed. by Harvey Weiss
Reviewed by: Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to Angkor ed. by Harvey Weiss Cam Grey Harvey Weiss (ed.). Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to Angkor. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 331. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-932919-9. Water matters. Its presence and effective management are necessary preconditions for the various and varied agricultural practices that have characteristically underpinned complex soc…
Risk and Vulnerability on the Campanian Plain: The Vesuvius Eruption of A.D. 472
The projects of social history, disaster studies, and archaeology deliberately tend to eschew consideration of events, focusing instead on processes and structures that unfold gradually over time. The eruption of the Somma-Vesuvius volcano in Campania, Italy, in 472 presents tangible markers of a specific moment, although the absence of local textual evidence and the strong hints of rapid re-exploitation of the rich and fertile soils of the regio…
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