Samuel Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5716191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sonoma State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9072-1041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Evolution of a Disaster
This essay explores how Gregory I (bishop of Rome, 590–604) depicted two Lombard sieges of Rome, traditionally dated to 592 and 593. These events, when they are discussed, are typically presented in a litany of disasters that befell Rome at the end of the sixth century. Plague, famine, flooding, and ultimately the “swords of the Lombards” were the depressing context of Gregory’s pontificate. However, a close examination of Gregory’s letters, the …
Studying Disaster in Late Antiquity
This introduction frames a collection of four papers, originally presented at the 13th Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity conference, that examine late antique episcopal responses to disaster, typically military defeats caused by the barbarians. To contextualize what follows, this essay begins by introducing various ways disaster researchers define disaster, as well as the related concepts of hazard and vulnerability. The paper also examines se…
Telling America's Story to the World
Writing in 1954 to accept an invitation to teach in Austria as part of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Ralph Ellison shared his plan to tailor his lectures to his students: “I shall adapt my lectures to the backgrounds of the students as I come to know them, and that the problem of their possible attitudes toward America in no way bothers me. I feel neither the necessity to attack nor defend. I am interested only in helping them to disc…
Theoderich der Große und das gotische Königreich in Italien
Eutychianorum furor! Heresiological Comparison and the Invention of Eutychians in Leo I’s Christological Polemic
This essay examines the use of heresiological rhetoric in the letters and tractates of Leo I (bishop of Rome, 440–461) written in defense of the Council of Chalcedon (451). In these texts, Leo claimed the Constantinopolitan monk Eutyches and his supporters, the Eutychians, were an existential threat to the faith. However, Leo’s Eutychians were a heresiological confabulation. Heresiology employs polemical comparison and hostile classification to d…
Gelasius and the Ostrogoths
This essay examines the relationship between Gelasius, bishop of Rome from 492 to 496, and the Ostrogothic court, which occasioned several jurisdictional questions: the Roman church’s authority to adjudicate controversies within suburbicarian Italy, the proper venue to judge disputes involving clerics, and the appropriate involvement of the Ostrogoths in resolving these questions. Importantly, Gelasius did not identify the Ostrogoths as Arian her…
The Merovingian Kingdoms and the Mediterranean World
One of the most productive trends in the study of the Merovingians—and indeed of the early medieval period more generally—has been the blurring of boundaries that supposedly divided various post-Roman polities in the fifth and sixth centuries (and beyond). Eschewing the “what happens in Gaul, stays in Gaul” approach, the essays in this volume, which grew out of a collaboration funded by the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and De…
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Postmodern, Postwar, Contemporary
The Merovingian Kingdoms and the Mediterranean World
One of the most productive trends in the study of the Merovingians—and indeed of the early medieval period more generally—has been the blurring of boundaries that supposedly divided various post-Roman polities in the fifth and sixth centuries (and beyond). Eschewing the “what happens in Gaul, stays in Gaul” approach, the essays in this volume, which grew out of a collaboration funded by the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and De…
Eutychianorum furor! Heresiological Comparison and the Invention of Eutychians in Leo I’s Christological Polemic
This essay examines the use of heresiological rhetoric in the letters and tractates of Leo I (bishop of Rome, 440–461) written in defense of the Council of Chalcedon (451). In these texts, Leo claimed the Constantinopolitan monk Eutyches and his supporters, the Eutychians, were an existential threat to the faith. However, Leo’s Eutychians were a heresiological confabulation. Heresiology employs polemical comparison and hostile classification to d…
Gelasius and the Ostrogoths
This essay examines the relationship between Gelasius, bishop of Rome from 492 to 496, and the Ostrogothic court, which occasioned several jurisdictional questions: the Roman church’s authority to adjudicate controversies within suburbicarian Italy, the proper venue to judge disputes involving clerics, and the appropriate involvement of the Ostrogoths in resolving these questions. Importantly, Gelasius did not identify the Ostrogoths as Arian her…
Theoderich der Große und das gotische Königreich in Italien
The Evolution of a Disaster
This essay explores how Gregory I (bishop of Rome, 590–604) depicted two Lombard sieges of Rome, traditionally dated to 592 and 593. These events, when they are discussed, are typically presented in a litany of disasters that befell Rome at the end of the sixth century. Plague, famine, flooding, and ultimately the “swords of the Lombards” were the depressing context of Gregory’s pontificate. However, a close examination of Gregory’s letters, the …
Studying Disaster in Late Antiquity
This introduction frames a collection of four papers, originally presented at the 13th Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity conference, that examine late antique episcopal responses to disaster, typically military defeats caused by the barbarians. To contextualize what follows, this essay begins by introducing various ways disaster researchers define disaster, as well as the related concepts of hazard and vulnerability. The paper also examines se…
Telling America's Story to the World
Writing in 1954 to accept an invitation to teach in Austria as part of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Ralph Ellison shared his plan to tailor his lectures to his students: “I shall adapt my lectures to the backgrounds of the students as I come to know them, and that the problem of their possible attitudes toward America in no way bothers me. I feel neither the necessity to attack nor defend. I am interested only in helping them to disc…
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medieval Literature and History (3 works)