Mark Humphries
Biographic Data
| ID | 4089470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Humphries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Humphries |
| SIGNATURE | HUMPHRIES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1920 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Highways of Water
Unlocking the archives
Narrative and Space in Christian Chronography
If, from its beginnings, historical writing in the Graeco-Roman world was bound up with choices about which spaces to include, this was no less true of the Christian varieties of historiography that emerged in late antiquity. 1 Part of the challenge for Christian authors offering narratives of the intersections between the classical and the Christian pasts was deciding how to delineate the geographical spaces in which those histories took place. …
Family, dynasty, and the construction of legitimacy from Augustus to the Theodosians 1
This chapter explores the consequences of the debate about dynastic legitimacy for imperial successions between the first century and the fifth. It argues that dynastic considerations were central to Roman imperial succession arrangements from the first century to the fifth, with a notable upsurge in late antiquity with the Constantinian and Valentinianic-Theodosian houses. The book examines how, in the first two centuries of the Principate, the …
Emperors, Usurpers, and the City of Rome
When the historian Sextus Aurelius Victor came to write (circa 360–361) his brief account of the reign of the third-century emperor Philip, he noted with approval how that emperor, after settling affairs in the East, had visited Rome, overseen the construction of a new cistern in Trastevere, and celebrated in 248 the city’s millennium with “games of all kinds.” Mention of this provided Victor with an opportunity to lament, however, that a century…
Wilfully and With Intent
À leur départ à la guerre en 1914, les soldats canadiens n’auraient pas pu imaginer les horreurs auxquelles ils allaient être confrontés sur les champs de bataille de France et de Belgique. Nombre d’entre eux ont tenu le coup en buvant, en chantant, en nouant des liens d’amitié; d’autres n’ont pas pu supporter la tension constante. Dans le feu de l’action, certains hommes se sont enfuis, abandonnant leur unité au front. Certains ne sont jamais re…
Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace
War's Long Shadow
War is an inherently traumatizing experience, and during the First World War more than 15,000 Canadian soldiers were diagnosed with some form of war-related psychological wounds. Many more went unrecognized. Yet the very act of seeking an escape from the battlefield or applying for a postwar pension for psychological traumas transgressed masculine norms that required men to be aggressive, self-reliant, and un-emotional. Using newly available arch…
The Sacred and the Secular
The impact of Christianity on secular life in Late Antiquity is often conceived in rather negative terms, as various characteristic features of classical Antiquity are regarded as coming to an end. Within this interpretative framework, most studies of the literature of Late Antiquity have focussed on the survival of ‘classical’ (or ‘pagan’ or ‘secular’ ) traditions and tropes in Christian writings. This paper examines the question from the opposi…
The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique World
This chapter contains sections titled: The Shape of the World: Eternal Rome and Its Rivals A Fragile Unity Unity and Diversity in the Roman Empire: Land, Economy, Culture, Power Grand Narratives and Regional Perspectives The Geopolitics of the Late Antique World Bibliographical Note
Rufinus's Eusebius
Rufinus's Latin translation of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History is customarily regarded as an inferior creature to the Greek original. By examining Rufinus's complete translation and continuation together, however, a more sympathetic understanding of his Latin version can be reached. This shows that Rufinus's version was by no means a clumsy version of the Greek followed by a mediocre continuation, but was conceived of as a unified whole. Hence …
The Roman Remains of Northern and Eastern France
This book provides a thorough, area by area companion to the region's wealth of monuments, excavations and artefacts, from Paris and Boulogne-sur-Mer to Strasbourg and Lyon. Over ninety sites are treated in detail, including major attractions such as the parc archeologique in Lyon and the amphitheatre at Autun, numerous local museums and secluded rural excavations. The guidebook combines a scholarly assessment of the area's Roman heritage, examin…
From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms
How, when and why did the Middle Ages begin? This reader gathers together a prestigious collection of revisionist thinking on questions of key research in medieval studies
Making of a Christian Aristocracy
Why did the Roman Empire become Christian? This question has significant ramifications for the whole of western history. Michele Renee Salzman is not, of course, the first to seek to explain this seismic change, but her approach seeks to make good the shortcomings of earlier attempts
The Roman Countryside
Roman Senators and Absent Emperors in Late Antiquity
It is often assumed that the political fortunes of the city of Rome and of its élite, the Senate, decline in late antiquity. Such decline is attributed to emperors residing in other centers closer to the frontiers and to the inflation of senatorial status in the fourth century. This article argues, however, that the senators of Rome continued to see themselves as important participants in imperial high politics throughout the period. Such ambitio…
The lexicon of abuse
INTRODUCTION In the anonymous, mid-fourth-century narrative known as the Origo Constantini imperatoris (The origin of the emperor Constantine), several apparently remarkable statements are made about the moral fibre – or, more precisely, the lack of it – of the enemies of the emperor Constantine. Prominent among these villains are Galerius, Augustus of the eastern empire (305–11), and his short-lived associate as western emperor, Severus (Caesar,…
Vespasian
Banking and Business in the Roman World
In Mommsen's Shade
When it comes to assessing the reputations of the great modern historians of Roman antiquity, Edward Gibbon (1737-94), in the English speaking world at any rate, perhaps counts for more than Theodor Mommsen (1818-1903). Gibbonâ s theme is on a grand scale, articulated in mellifluous prose. Mommsenâ s work cannot compare on either level: the history of the Republic does not evoke the same visceral fascination as the fall of the Empire; and a trans…
The Making of the Roman Army. From Republic to Empire
Roman Architecture
Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity. Environment and Culture
Zeno and Gallienus
Chronicle and chronology
Rufinus's Eusebius
Rufinus's Latin translation of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History is customarily regarded as an inferior creature to the Greek original. By examining Rufinus's complete translation and continuation together, however, a more sympathetic understanding of his Latin version can be reached. This shows that Rufinus's version was by no means a clumsy version of the Greek followed by a mediocre continuation, but was conceived of as a unified whole. Hence …
Wilfully and With Intent
À leur départ à la guerre en 1914, les soldats canadiens n’auraient pas pu imaginer les horreurs auxquelles ils allaient être confrontés sur les champs de bataille de France et de Belgique. Nombre d’entre eux ont tenu le coup en buvant, en chantant, en nouant des liens d’amitié; d’autres n’ont pas pu supporter la tension constante. Dans le feu de l’action, certains hommes se sont enfuis, abandonnant leur unité au front. Certains ne sont jamais re…
International relations
The subjugation of barbarian envoys in front of Theodosius I, as depicted in the Constantnople's obelisk in 390, soon turned out to be hollow. The same barbarians later became embroiled in a series of conflicts that would seriously undermine the stability of the empire and eventually produce a very different balance of power between the empire and its neighbours. This chapter traces this changing balance of power in late antiquity and its ramific…
Chronicle and chronology
Zeno and Gallienus
Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity. Environment and Culture
The Making of the Roman Army. From Republic to Empire
Roman Architecture
The lexicon of abuse
INTRODUCTION In the anonymous, mid-fourth-century narrative known as the Origo Constantini imperatoris (The origin of the emperor Constantine), several apparently remarkable statements are made about the moral fibre – or, more precisely, the lack of it – of the enemies of the emperor Constantine. Prominent among these villains are Galerius, Augustus of the eastern empire (305–11), and his short-lived associate as western emperor, Severus (Caesar,…
Vespasian
Banking and Business in the Roman World
In Mommsen's Shade
When it comes to assessing the reputations of the great modern historians of Roman antiquity, Edward Gibbon (1737-94), in the English speaking world at any rate, perhaps counts for more than Theodor Mommsen (1818-1903). Gibbonâ s theme is on a grand scale, articulated in mellifluous prose. Mommsenâ s work cannot compare on either level: the history of the Republic does not evoke the same visceral fascination as the fall of the Empire; and a trans…
Roman Senators and Absent Emperors in Late Antiquity
It is often assumed that the political fortunes of the city of Rome and of its élite, the Senate, decline in late antiquity. Such decline is attributed to emperors residing in other centers closer to the frontiers and to the inflation of senatorial status in the fourth century. This article argues, however, that the senators of Rome continued to see themselves as important participants in imperial high politics throughout the period. Such ambitio…
Making of a Christian Aristocracy
Why did the Roman Empire become Christian? This question has significant ramifications for the whole of western history. Michele Renee Salzman is not, of course, the first to seek to explain this seismic change, but her approach seeks to make good the shortcomings of earlier attempts
The Roman Countryside
The Roman Remains of Northern and Eastern France
This book provides a thorough, area by area companion to the region's wealth of monuments, excavations and artefacts, from Paris and Boulogne-sur-Mer to Strasbourg and Lyon. Over ninety sites are treated in detail, including major attractions such as the parc archeologique in Lyon and the amphitheatre at Autun, numerous local museums and secluded rural excavations. The guidebook combines a scholarly assessment of the area's Roman heritage, examin…
From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms
How, when and why did the Middle Ages begin? This reader gathers together a prestigious collection of revisionist thinking on questions of key research in medieval studies
Rufinus's Eusebius
Rufinus's Latin translation of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History is customarily regarded as an inferior creature to the Greek original. By examining Rufinus's complete translation and continuation together, however, a more sympathetic understanding of his Latin version can be reached. This shows that Rufinus's version was by no means a clumsy version of the Greek followed by a mediocre continuation, but was conceived of as a unified whole. Hence …
The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique World
This chapter contains sections titled: The Shape of the World: Eternal Rome and Its Rivals A Fragile Unity Unity and Diversity in the Roman Empire: Land, Economy, Culture, Power Grand Narratives and Regional Perspectives The Geopolitics of the Late Antique World Bibliographical Note
War's Long Shadow
War is an inherently traumatizing experience, and during the First World War more than 15,000 Canadian soldiers were diagnosed with some form of war-related psychological wounds. Many more went unrecognized. Yet the very act of seeking an escape from the battlefield or applying for a postwar pension for psychological traumas transgressed masculine norms that required men to be aggressive, self-reliant, and un-emotional. Using newly available arch…
The Sacred and the Secular
The impact of Christianity on secular life in Late Antiquity is often conceived in rather negative terms, as various characteristic features of classical Antiquity are regarded as coming to an end. Within this interpretative framework, most studies of the literature of Late Antiquity have focussed on the survival of ‘classical’ (or ‘pagan’ or ‘secular’ ) traditions and tropes in Christian writings. This paper examines the question from the opposi…
Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace
Wilfully and With Intent
À leur départ à la guerre en 1914, les soldats canadiens n’auraient pas pu imaginer les horreurs auxquelles ils allaient être confrontés sur les champs de bataille de France et de Belgique. Nombre d’entre eux ont tenu le coup en buvant, en chantant, en nouant des liens d’amitié; d’autres n’ont pas pu supporter la tension constante. Dans le feu de l’action, certains hommes se sont enfuis, abandonnant leur unité au front. Certains ne sont jamais re…
Emperors, Usurpers, and the City of Rome
When the historian Sextus Aurelius Victor came to write (circa 360–361) his brief account of the reign of the third-century emperor Philip, he noted with approval how that emperor, after settling affairs in the East, had visited Rome, overseen the construction of a new cistern in Trastevere, and celebrated in 248 the city’s millennium with “games of all kinds.” Mention of this provided Victor with an opportunity to lament, however, that a century…
Narrative and Space in Christian Chronography
If, from its beginnings, historical writing in the Graeco-Roman world was bound up with choices about which spaces to include, this was no less true of the Christian varieties of historiography that emerged in late antiquity. 1 Part of the challenge for Christian authors offering narratives of the intersections between the classical and the Christian pasts was deciding how to delineate the geographical spaces in which those histories took place. …
Family, dynasty, and the construction of legitimacy from Augustus to the Theodosians 1
This chapter explores the consequences of the debate about dynastic legitimacy for imperial successions between the first century and the fifth. It argues that dynastic considerations were central to Roman imperial succession arrangements from the first century to the fifth, with a notable upsurge in late antiquity with the Constantinian and Valentinianic-Theodosian houses. The book examines how, in the first two centuries of the Principate, the …
Unlocking the archives
History (22 works) · Ancient history (14 works) · History (13 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Geography (6 works)