Carsten Hjort Lange
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carsten Hjort Lange |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carsten Hjort |
| FAMILY NAME | Lange |
| SIGNATURE | LANGE C H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4405-7016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic
In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores the political and social consequences of elite female wealth. It combines case …
Cassius Dio the Historian
This chapter surveys the speeches of Cassius Dio’s Roman History up to the Augustan Settlement in Book 53. It shows that the historian’s approach to the composition and arrangement of his speeches was highly varied. Beginning with an overview of the historian’s sources, it argues that Dio had four primary methods in the composition of his speeches, drawing to varying degrees from pre-existing written versions. Then, turning to the distribution an…
Young Caesar and the Termination of Civil War (31–27 bce )
The most likely legacy of civil war is renewed civil war; the Roman civil war(s) of the first century BCE furnish us with the best proof of this supposition. The task of breaking that cycle fell, finally, to Young Caesar – but how, in practical terms, did he bring this about? What ‘phase IV’ operations, activities conducted after combat in order to stabilise and reconstruct the area of operations, did Augustus facilitate? The ‘unconditional surre…
Cassius Dio
Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War is part of a renewed interest in the Roman historian Cassius Dio. This volume focuses on Dio’s approaches to foreign war and stasis as well as civil war. The impact of war on Rome as well as on the history of Rome has long be recognised by scholars, and adding to that, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the impact of civil war on Roman society. Dio’s views on violence, war, and…
Cassius Dio
This volume focuses on Cassius Dio’s approaches to foreign war and stasis (as in violence) as well as civil war (= stasis, emphylios polemos). The chapters as a whole have – or so it has turned out –turned this into a slightly imbalanced book in as much as there are rather many civil war articles and few foreign war/expansion articles (with some of the foreign war articles focusing partly on civil wars). There may be many reasons for this. An ans…
Historiography and Civil War
This volume is part of a burgeoning new trend that focuses on the great impact of stasis and civil war on Roman society, including mass violence (Osgood 2006; 2014; Breed et al. 2010; Welch 2012; Wienand 2012; Börm 2013; Börm et al. 2016; Havener 2016; Lange 2016; Armitage 2017; Ginsberg 2017; Maschek 2018; Omissi 2018; and, most recently, Ginsberg & Krasne 2018 ). However we approach the Late Republic – numerous possibilities include ‘crisis’, ‘…
Augustus, the Res Gestae and the End of Civil War
The period of the Late Republic fostered new historiographical trends. These trends were, naturally, informed by the defining conditions of the period from roughly 133 BCE onwards: how to write about violence, civil strife, and civil war became a crucial consideration. This would initially challenge profoundly the conventions of Roman historiography, which had traditionally focused on the deeds of the Romans domi militiaeque but excluded civil wa…
Sulla and the Origins of the Concept of Bellum Civile
In the opening chapter on Sulla and the origins of the concept of bellum civile Carsten Hjort Lange and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet revisit a number of striking and revealing fragments of Sulla’s lost Res Gestae. Embedded in their wider historical and historiographical context, these select fragments – amongst other things – strongly suggest that the term bellum civile came into existence in the immediate aftermath of the civil wars of the 80s BCE a…
The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War
The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War is part of a burgeoning new trend that focuses on the great impact of stasis and civil war on Roman society. This volume specifically concentrates on the Late Republic, a transformative period marked by social and political violence, stasis, factional strife, and civil war. Its constitutive chapters closely study developments and discussions concerning the concept of civil war in the late republican…
Stasis and Bellum Civile
David Armitage’s new monograph Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017) will undoubtedly long remain a standard reference work. It presents readers with a vision of civil war as part of the longue durée. The argument might be further strengthened, however, if a more inclusive Greco-Roman approach to ancient civil war is accepted. This essay focuses on stasis vs. bellum civile, the origins of the concept of civil war, the approach of later Roman writ…
Preliminary Material
Between History and Politics
Index
The Late Republican Triumph
The Late Republic saw transformations of conventions across a wide range of political phenomena and rituals, including that of the most prestigious of all war rituals, the triumph. During the Republic the triumph served as a medium for negotiating status and prestige within a highly competitive aristocratic society, whereas during the Principate it was a medium for negotiating status and prestige under a monarchy. This chapter seeks to address ce…
Mock the Triumph
During the Republic the triumph was a medium for negotiating status and prestige within a highly competitive aristocratic society, whereas during the Principate it was a medium for negotiating status and prestige under a monarchy. This chapter argues that Cassius Dio approached triumphal matters in his historical narrative in a way very similar to the parallel evidence: he understood, at times disapprovingly, the inherent flexibility of the ius t…
Cassius Dio
6 Brandon Jones contribution to this volume in particular gives a good overview in which Cassius Dio may be considered a member of a 'sophistic' intellectual climate
Triumph and civil war in the late Republic
Many of the wars of the Late Republican period were largely civil conflicts, and there was thus a tension between the traditional expectation that triumphs should be celebrated for victories over foreign enemies and the need of the great commanders to give full expression to their prestige and charisma, and to legitimate their power. Most of the rules and conventions relating to triumphs thus appear to have been articulated as the development of …
The Battle of Actium
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Cassius Dio
6 Brandon Jones contribution to this volume in particular gives a good overview in which Cassius Dio may be considered a member of a 'sophistic' intellectual climate
The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War
The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War is part of a burgeoning new trend that focuses on the great impact of stasis and civil war on Roman society. This volume specifically concentrates on the Late Republic, a transformative period marked by social and political violence, stasis, factional strife, and civil war. Its constitutive chapters closely study developments and discussions concerning the concept of civil war in the late republican…
Triumph and civil war in the late Republic
Many of the wars of the Late Republican period were largely civil conflicts, and there was thus a tension between the traditional expectation that triumphs should be celebrated for victories over foreign enemies and the need of the great commanders to give full expression to their prestige and charisma, and to legitimate their power. Most of the rules and conventions relating to triumphs thus appear to have been articulated as the development of …
Cassius Dio the Historian
This chapter surveys the speeches of Cassius Dio’s Roman History up to the Augustan Settlement in Book 53. It shows that the historian’s approach to the composition and arrangement of his speeches was highly varied. Beginning with an overview of the historian’s sources, it argues that Dio had four primary methods in the composition of his speeches, drawing to varying degrees from pre-existing written versions. Then, turning to the distribution an…
Stasis and Bellum Civile
David Armitage’s new monograph Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017) will undoubtedly long remain a standard reference work. It presents readers with a vision of civil war as part of the longue durée. The argument might be further strengthened, however, if a more inclusive Greco-Roman approach to ancient civil war is accepted. This essay focuses on stasis vs. bellum civile, the origins of the concept of civil war, the approach of later Roman writ…
The Battle of Actium
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
Triumph and civil war in the late Republic
Many of the wars of the Late Republican period were largely civil conflicts, and there was thus a tension between the traditional expectation that triumphs should be celebrated for victories over foreign enemies and the need of the great commanders to give full expression to their prestige and charisma, and to legitimate their power. Most of the rules and conventions relating to triumphs thus appear to have been articulated as the development of …
Preliminary Material
Between History and Politics
Index
The Late Republican Triumph
The Late Republic saw transformations of conventions across a wide range of political phenomena and rituals, including that of the most prestigious of all war rituals, the triumph. During the Republic the triumph served as a medium for negotiating status and prestige within a highly competitive aristocratic society, whereas during the Principate it was a medium for negotiating status and prestige under a monarchy. This chapter seeks to address ce…
Mock the Triumph
During the Republic the triumph was a medium for negotiating status and prestige within a highly competitive aristocratic society, whereas during the Principate it was a medium for negotiating status and prestige under a monarchy. This chapter argues that Cassius Dio approached triumphal matters in his historical narrative in a way very similar to the parallel evidence: he understood, at times disapprovingly, the inherent flexibility of the ius t…
Cassius Dio
6 Brandon Jones contribution to this volume in particular gives a good overview in which Cassius Dio may be considered a member of a 'sophistic' intellectual climate
Stasis and Bellum Civile
David Armitage’s new monograph Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017) will undoubtedly long remain a standard reference work. It presents readers with a vision of civil war as part of the longue durée. The argument might be further strengthened, however, if a more inclusive Greco-Roman approach to ancient civil war is accepted. This essay focuses on stasis vs. bellum civile, the origins of the concept of civil war, the approach of later Roman writ…
Historiography and Civil War
This volume is part of a burgeoning new trend that focuses on the great impact of stasis and civil war on Roman society, including mass violence (Osgood 2006; 2014; Breed et al. 2010; Welch 2012; Wienand 2012; Börm 2013; Börm et al. 2016; Havener 2016; Lange 2016; Armitage 2017; Ginsberg 2017; Maschek 2018; Omissi 2018; and, most recently, Ginsberg & Krasne 2018 ). However we approach the Late Republic – numerous possibilities include ‘crisis’, ‘…
Augustus, the Res Gestae and the End of Civil War
The period of the Late Republic fostered new historiographical trends. These trends were, naturally, informed by the defining conditions of the period from roughly 133 BCE onwards: how to write about violence, civil strife, and civil war became a crucial consideration. This would initially challenge profoundly the conventions of Roman historiography, which had traditionally focused on the deeds of the Romans domi militiaeque but excluded civil wa…
Sulla and the Origins of the Concept of Bellum Civile
In the opening chapter on Sulla and the origins of the concept of bellum civile Carsten Hjort Lange and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet revisit a number of striking and revealing fragments of Sulla’s lost Res Gestae. Embedded in their wider historical and historiographical context, these select fragments – amongst other things – strongly suggest that the term bellum civile came into existence in the immediate aftermath of the civil wars of the 80s BCE a…
The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War
The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War is part of a burgeoning new trend that focuses on the great impact of stasis and civil war on Roman society. This volume specifically concentrates on the Late Republic, a transformative period marked by social and political violence, stasis, factional strife, and civil war. Its constitutive chapters closely study developments and discussions concerning the concept of civil war in the late republican…
Young Caesar and the Termination of Civil War (31–27 bce )
The most likely legacy of civil war is renewed civil war; the Roman civil war(s) of the first century BCE furnish us with the best proof of this supposition. The task of breaking that cycle fell, finally, to Young Caesar – but how, in practical terms, did he bring this about? What ‘phase IV’ operations, activities conducted after combat in order to stabilise and reconstruct the area of operations, did Augustus facilitate? The ‘unconditional surre…
Cassius Dio
Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War is part of a renewed interest in the Roman historian Cassius Dio. This volume focuses on Dio’s approaches to foreign war and stasis as well as civil war. The impact of war on Rome as well as on the history of Rome has long be recognised by scholars, and adding to that, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the impact of civil war on Roman society. Dio’s views on violence, war, and…
Cassius Dio
This volume focuses on Cassius Dio’s approaches to foreign war and stasis (as in violence) as well as civil war (= stasis, emphylios polemos). The chapters as a whole have – or so it has turned out –turned this into a slightly imbalanced book in as much as there are rather many civil war articles and few foreign war/expansion articles (with some of the foreign war articles focusing partly on civil wars). There may be many reasons for this. An ans…
Cassius Dio the Historian
This chapter surveys the speeches of Cassius Dio’s Roman History up to the Augustan Settlement in Book 53. It shows that the historian’s approach to the composition and arrangement of his speeches was highly varied. Beginning with an overview of the historian’s sources, it argues that Dio had four primary methods in the composition of his speeches, drawing to varying degrees from pre-existing written versions. Then, turning to the distribution an…
Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic
In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores the political and social consequences of elite female wealth. It combines case …
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