A T Fear
Biographic Data
| ID | 5632601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A T Fear |
| GIVEN NAMES | A T |
| FAMILY NAME | Fear |
| SIGNATURE | FEAR A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1920 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An empire of blood
This paper explores the dangers that Orosius believed Alexander the Great and his conquests posed to his Christian teleological reading of history. It argues that Orosius carefully crafted his account of Alexander to demonstrate that both the man himself and his conquests could only be read in an entirely negative light and could not have contributed to God’s salvific plans as Rome had. However, it concludes that while Orosius constructed this at…
Philip II, Alexander III and the Macedonian Empire
Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great, despite coming to power in similar circumstances, approached their rule in very different ways. In particular, it suggests that along with a contrast of style, in Keegan’s terms Alexander being a ‘heroic’ leader, his father an ‘unheroic’, one their approach and, as a consequence, the aims and practice of their strategies were quite different. While it could be argued that Philip’s was simply one …
The Christianization of Western Baetica
Reviewed by: The Christianization of Western Baetica: Architecture, Power, and Religion in a Late Antique Landscape by Jerónimo Sánchez Velasco A. T. Fear Jerónimo Sánchez Velasco. The Christianization of Western Baetica: Architecture, Power, and Religion in a Late Antique Landscape. Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. Pp. 354. $155.00. ISBN 978-90-8964-932-4. This volume is a stimulating account o…
Chapter Two. The Roman’s Burden
As Gibbon once famously remarked, the surprising thing about the Roman Empire is not its fall, but rather its remarkable longevity. This very durability may well have led to the comparative silence that we find in our contemporary sources concerning the nature and intentions of Roman Imperialism as those living under the Empire in the main simply took Roman rule for granted: it was assumed to be an unchanging and unchangeable constant of their li…
St Patrick and the Art of Allusion
This chapter discusses how St Patrick used a letter, known as the Epistola, to campaign for the excommunication of Coroticus' men until they take penance and free their captives, although the letter makes it clear that Patrick holds out little hope that such repentance will be forthcoming. Coroticus is a warlord in Britain who, some time in the first 3rd of the 5th century AD, launched a slave raid on the coast of Ireland, at a time when St Patri…
Boudica
Reviewed by: Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen A. T. Fear (bio) R. Hingley and C. Unwin. Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen. London: Hambleton and London, 2005. xii + 293 pp. 44 figs. 8 plates. ISBN 1-85285-438-3, £19.99. Recently, after a long drought, there has been a flurry of interest, both scholarly and literary, in the ancient British queen Boudica. This work, divided into two equal sized halves—the first of which, entitled "Boudica," deals with…
Rome and Baetica
High Kingship and Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus
Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus et la royauté suprême. Cet article examine la possibilité que le roi romano-britannique Cogidubnus ait reçu le titre de «Rex Magnus » à cause de la forme celtique de sa royauté
Bladud
THE tale of Bladud, the flying king of Bath, one of the most curious legends of Britain, is first found in Geoffrey of Monmouth. According to Geoffrey, Bladud was the son of King Rud Hud Ludibras, who lived in the ninth century B.C. His claim to fame was to build the town of Caerbadum, or Bath, and the hot baths found there.2 These he dedicated to the goddess Minerva. Geoffrey then describes the temple to the goddess in an account which has been …
Religious Graffiti in Two Spanish Amphitheatres
War and Society
For inhabitants of the early Empire, the Roman army was a somewhat distant feature of society. In the realm of high politics the relationship between soldier and civilian had also changed greatly. The Roman state in the fourth century had become in most respects a para-military one. Work in the civil service was now described as militia. The militarization of society came with a general loss in esteem for the army. By its very nature and composit…
Bladud
THE tale of Bladud, the flying king of Bath, one of the most curious legends of Britain, is first found in Geoffrey of Monmouth. According to Geoffrey, Bladud was the son of King Rud Hud Ludibras, who lived in the ninth century B.C. His claim to fame was to build the town of Caerbadum, or Bath, and the hot baths found there.2 These he dedicated to the goddess Minerva. Geoffrey then describes the temple to the goddess in an account which has been …
Religious Graffiti in Two Spanish Amphitheatres
War and Society
For inhabitants of the early Empire, the Roman army was a somewhat distant feature of society. In the realm of high politics the relationship between soldier and civilian had also changed greatly. The Roman state in the fourth century had become in most respects a para-military one. Work in the civil service was now described as militia. The militarization of society came with a general loss in esteem for the army. By its very nature and composit…
Religious Graffiti in Two Spanish Amphitheatres
Bladud
THE tale of Bladud, the flying king of Bath, one of the most curious legends of Britain, is first found in Geoffrey of Monmouth. According to Geoffrey, Bladud was the son of King Rud Hud Ludibras, who lived in the ninth century B.C. His claim to fame was to build the town of Caerbadum, or Bath, and the hot baths found there.2 These he dedicated to the goddess Minerva. Geoffrey then describes the temple to the goddess in an account which has been …
High Kingship and Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus
Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus et la royauté suprême. Cet article examine la possibilité que le roi romano-britannique Cogidubnus ait reçu le titre de «Rex Magnus » à cause de la forme celtique de sa royauté
Rome and Baetica
Boudica
Reviewed by: Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen A. T. Fear (bio) R. Hingley and C. Unwin. Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen. London: Hambleton and London, 2005. xii + 293 pp. 44 figs. 8 plates. ISBN 1-85285-438-3, £19.99. Recently, after a long drought, there has been a flurry of interest, both scholarly and literary, in the ancient British queen Boudica. This work, divided into two equal sized halves—the first of which, entitled "Boudica," deals with…
St Patrick and the Art of Allusion
This chapter discusses how St Patrick used a letter, known as the Epistola, to campaign for the excommunication of Coroticus' men until they take penance and free their captives, although the letter makes it clear that Patrick holds out little hope that such repentance will be forthcoming. Coroticus is a warlord in Britain who, some time in the first 3rd of the 5th century AD, launched a slave raid on the coast of Ireland, at a time when St Patri…
Chapter Two. The Roman’s Burden
As Gibbon once famously remarked, the surprising thing about the Roman Empire is not its fall, but rather its remarkable longevity. This very durability may well have led to the comparative silence that we find in our contemporary sources concerning the nature and intentions of Roman Imperialism as those living under the Empire in the main simply took Roman rule for granted: it was assumed to be an unchanging and unchangeable constant of their li…
The Christianization of Western Baetica
Reviewed by: The Christianization of Western Baetica: Architecture, Power, and Religion in a Late Antique Landscape by Jerónimo Sánchez Velasco A. T. Fear Jerónimo Sánchez Velasco. The Christianization of Western Baetica: Architecture, Power, and Religion in a Late Antique Landscape. Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. Pp. 354. $155.00. ISBN 978-90-8964-932-4. This volume is a stimulating account o…
Philip II, Alexander III and the Macedonian Empire
Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great, despite coming to power in similar circumstances, approached their rule in very different ways. In particular, it suggests that along with a contrast of style, in Keegan’s terms Alexander being a ‘heroic’ leader, his father an ‘unheroic’, one their approach and, as a consequence, the aims and practice of their strategies were quite different. While it could be argued that Philip’s was simply one …
An empire of blood
This paper explores the dangers that Orosius believed Alexander the Great and his conquests posed to his Christian teleological reading of history. It argues that Orosius carefully crafted his account of Alexander to demonstrate that both the man himself and his conquests could only be read in an entirely negative light and could not have contributed to God’s salvific plans as Rome had. However, it concludes that while Orosius constructed this at…
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