Michele Renee Salzman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 964749 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michele Renee Salzman |
| PRENOMES | Michele Renee |
| SOBRENOME | Salzman |
| ASSINATURA | SALZMAN M R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
War and Community in Late Antiquity
Late Antiquity (ca. 250–600 CE) was a world at war: barbarian migrations, civil wars, raids, and increasingly porous frontiers affected millions of its inhabitants. While military and political historians have long grappled with this history, scholars of late antique society and culture rarely interrogate the consequences of near constant warfare on civilian populations, fighting forces, and the built environment. War and Community in Late Antiqu…
Birthday
The Romans, unlike the Greeks, were in the habit of annually celebrating the birthdays of individuals. On someone's birthday, family members, friends, and clients would come to the person's home and offer gifts and prayers, and would attend a banquet in that person's honor.
The Religious Economics of Crisis
This paper explores the multiple meanings of the restoration of liturgical silver plate by the bishops of Rome after the sacks of Rome in 410, 455, and 472. The author argues that this act was of primary importance to the bishops of Rome as a key means of reestablishing their hegemony over Christian communities in the city after periods of upheaval. By replacing lost liturgical plate, the bishops of Rome performed the role of patron in lieu of th…
Symmachus' Varro
Symmachus opened his first book of letters by writing to his father Avianius, whom he depicted as a ‘new Varro’ writing learned epigrams on seven famous men in imitation of Varro's lost work, the Hebdomades. Symmachus was not alone in using Varro's work as an intertext. Based on my study of allusions to Varro and his works by late-fourth and fifth-century writers, I argue that Christian polemicists renewed their attacks on the Augustan scholar in…
From Superstitio to Heresy
There are obvious similarities between Roman laws against superstitio— defined as excessive religious credulity, hence magic and private divination, and then paganism—and Roman laws against heresy: both sets of laws represent attempts by the state to define and prohibit religious behaviors. Yet for all their similarities, justifications for laws against heresy were significantly different from those against superstitio . Heresy laws prohibited no…
From a Classical to a Christian City
This paper focuses on the justifications for feeding Rome as a case study for evaluating the transition from a classical model of civic euergetism to one of Christian charity. Civic euergetism, which customarily entails public philanthropy publicly directed toward one's city or fellow citizens, was a social transaction intended to gain personal glory. In Christian charity, the poor were now supposed to be the objects of acts of public giving. Bas…
Gregor Kalas. The Restoration of the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity
This is one of a number of new books that have forced historians to reassess the vitality of the city of Rome even after Diocletian and the Tetrarchs had ensured that Rome would no longer be the sole imperial capital in the empire. Gregor Kalas’s book benefits from the use of digital mapping techniques and from an earlier research project through the UCLA Digital Humanities Center called “Visualizing Statues in the Late Roman Forum” (xiii). As Ka…
Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome
Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome
Constantine and the Roman Senate
Constantine's relations to the senate and to Rome's resident senatorial aristocracy have attracted a good deal of scholarly attention, but not consensus. In the aftermath of World War II a number of scholars followed a view developed by Hungarian scholar András Alföldi, who characterized that relationship as conflict-ridden and filled with friction between an aggressively Christianizing emperor and a staunchly pagan senatorial aristocracy, the on…
The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World
Volume 1. From the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era: Introduction Marvin A. Sweeney Part I. Mesopotamia and the Near East: 1. Sumerian religion Graham Cunningham 2. Assyrian and Babylonian religions Tammi J. Schneider 3. Hittite religion Gary Beckman 4. Zoroastrianism P. Oktor Skaervo 5. Syro-Canaanite religions: a construct of metaphors David Wright 6. Ancient Israelite and Judean religions Marvin A. Sweeney Part II. Egypt and North Africa: 7. …
Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World
Structuring time
Leo's Liturgical Topography
This paper examines the Sermons of Leo the Great ( a.d. 440-461) for their liturgical topography. Leo developed an annual cycle of set places on set days - the very definition of stational liturgy - in Rome as one means to assert papal authority over the city's Christian communities and especially over the resident Roman senatorial aristocracy. Leo's Sermons indicate that the bishop found new ways to centralize the liturgy at St Peter's in the Va…
Theodosian Code
The Theodosian Code was initiated by the emperor Theodosius II, as he announced to the Senate of Constantinople in a constitution of March 26, 429 CE ( CT 1.1.5).
Birthday
In the Greek world, the birthdays ( genethlioshemera ) of important Olympian gods were celebrated on certain days of the month; so, for example, the seventh day of the new lunar cycle, when the moon was half full, was sacred to Apollo, whose festivals ordinarily were celebrated then, and whose birthday was supposed to be, in the Attic and Ionian calendars, on day 7 of the month Thargelion.
Ambrose and the Usurpation of Arbogastes and Eugenius
The usurpation of Arbogastes and Eugenius that resulted in the Battle of Frigidus in 394 remains embedded in pagan-Christian conflict narratives in modern scholarship on the late fourth century. Even scholars who see conflict as the flip side of religious assimilation persist in reading the narratives of the usurpation and Theodosius's victory as evidence for pagan-Christian conflict. An examination of the evidence for these events, including two…
The Making of a Christian Aristocracy
Making of a Christian Aristocracy
Pagans and Christians
As Christianity ‘triumphed’ over the course of the fourth century, so too did Christians' growing intolerance for pagans, and also Jews and ‘heretical Christians’. In the traditional narrative, Christians ended the fourth century by persecuting pagans and coercing their conversion. The political conflict was constant. The balance of power only shifted after Constantine, as Christians came to persecute pagans in the new Christian empire. This clea…
The Monk and the Book
Christianity and paganism, III
The spread of Christianity in Italy, as elsewhere throughout the empire, was greatly aided by the imperial support it received from the time of the emperor Constantine's conversion. The conversion of Italy's elites is one significant marker of religious change; once the elite, in Rome especially, but also throughout Italy, had converted, the empire could be proclaimed Christian. This chapter focuses on three separate social elites in three differ…
The 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 Making of a Christian Aristocracy
Competing Claims to "Nobilitas" in the Western Empire of the Fourth and Fifth Centuries
From the Republic on into the early Empire, Roman senatorial nobilitas connoted not only the distinction of a distinguished family pedigree, but also the attainment of a high public office, the consulship. The association of birth with office persisted in the fourth and fifth centuries c.e. when the nobility still represented the most elite, most prestigious segment of the Roman senatorial aristocracy. But this was a group and a virtue that was n…
Ambrose and the Usurpation of Arbogastes and Eugenius
The usurpation of Arbogastes and Eugenius that resulted in the Battle of Frigidus in 394 remains embedded in pagan-Christian conflict narratives in modern scholarship on the late fourth century. Even scholars who see conflict as the flip side of religious assimilation persist in reading the narratives of the usurpation and Theodosius's victory as evidence for pagan-Christian conflict. An examination of the evidence for these events, including two…
Competing Claims to "Nobilitas" in the Western Empire of the Fourth and Fifth Centuries
From the Republic on into the early Empire, Roman senatorial nobilitas connoted not only the distinction of a distinguished family pedigree, but also the attainment of a high public office, the consulship. The association of birth with office persisted in the fourth and fifth centuries c.e. when the nobility still represented the most elite, most prestigious segment of the Roman senatorial aristocracy. But this was a group and a virtue that was n…
Leo's Liturgical Topography
This paper examines the Sermons of Leo the Great ( a.d. 440-461) for their liturgical topography. Leo developed an annual cycle of set places on set days - the very definition of stational liturgy - in Rome as one means to assert papal authority over the city's Christian communities and especially over the resident Roman senatorial aristocracy. Leo's Sermons indicate that the bishop found new ways to centralize the liturgy at St Peter's in the Va…
Cicero, the Megalenses and the Defense of Caelius
Cicero, the Megalenses and the Defense of Caelius
The Representation of April in the Calendar of 354
The illustrations of the months in the famous Calendar of 354, preserved in several Renaissance copies, are a rich source for the study of late antiquity. This article examines one of the illustrations of the months which, since its discovery in the seventeenth century, has presented problems of interpretation for historians of art and of religion alike. The representation of April has been understood as a depiction of the rite of the pagan festi…
Superstitio' in the "Codex Theodosianus" and the Persecution of Pagans
Superstitio' in the Codex Theodosianus and the Persecution of Pagans1
The term superstitio is of fundamental importance for scholars of Roman religion and history, for it addresses a question of vital importance to the Roman state: how does the state deal with religious beliefs and practices-either Roman or alien-which are not part of the state religion and are not easily susceptible to state control? Given its importance, the term superstitio has deservedly been the subject of several scholarly studies. These stud…
On Roman Time
On Roman Time
Competing Claims to "Nobilitas" in the Western Empire of the Fourth and Fifth Centuries
From the Republic on into the early Empire, Roman senatorial nobilitas connoted not only the distinction of a distinguished family pedigree, but also the attainment of a high public office, the consulship. The association of birth with office persisted in the fourth and fifth centuries c.e. when the nobility still represented the most elite, most prestigious segment of the Roman senatorial aristocracy. But this was a group and a virtue that was n…
The Making of a Christian Aristocracy
The 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
Christianity and paganism, III
The spread of Christianity in Italy, as elsewhere throughout the empire, was greatly aided by the imperial support it received from the time of the emperor Constantine's conversion. The conversion of Italy's elites is one significant marker of religious change; once the elite, in Rome especially, but also throughout Italy, had converted, the empire could be proclaimed Christian. This chapter focuses on three separate social elites in three differ…
The Monk and the Book
The Making of a Christian Aristocracy
Making of a Christian Aristocracy
Pagans and Christians
As Christianity ‘triumphed’ over the course of the fourth century, so too did Christians' growing intolerance for pagans, and also Jews and ‘heretical Christians’. In the traditional narrative, Christians ended the fourth century by persecuting pagans and coercing their conversion. The political conflict was constant. The balance of power only shifted after Constantine, as Christians came to persecute pagans in the new Christian empire. This clea…
Ambrose and the Usurpation of Arbogastes and Eugenius
The usurpation of Arbogastes and Eugenius that resulted in the Battle of Frigidus in 394 remains embedded in pagan-Christian conflict narratives in modern scholarship on the late fourth century. Even scholars who see conflict as the flip side of religious assimilation persist in reading the narratives of the usurpation and Theodosius's victory as evidence for pagan-Christian conflict. An examination of the evidence for these events, including two…
Theodosian Code
The Theodosian Code was initiated by the emperor Theodosius II, as he announced to the Senate of Constantinople in a constitution of March 26, 429 CE ( CT 1.1.5).
Birthday
In the Greek world, the birthdays ( genethlioshemera ) of important Olympian gods were celebrated on certain days of the month; so, for example, the seventh day of the new lunar cycle, when the moon was half full, was sacred to Apollo, whose festivals ordinarily were celebrated then, and whose birthday was supposed to be, in the Attic and Ionian calendars, on day 7 of the month Thargelion.
The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World
Volume 1. From the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era: Introduction Marvin A. Sweeney Part I. Mesopotamia and the Near East: 1. Sumerian religion Graham Cunningham 2. Assyrian and Babylonian religions Tammi J. Schneider 3. Hittite religion Gary Beckman 4. Zoroastrianism P. Oktor Skaervo 5. Syro-Canaanite religions: a construct of metaphors David Wright 6. Ancient Israelite and Judean religions Marvin A. Sweeney Part II. Egypt and North Africa: 7. …
Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World
Structuring time
Leo's Liturgical Topography
This paper examines the Sermons of Leo the Great ( a.d. 440-461) for their liturgical topography. Leo developed an annual cycle of set places on set days - the very definition of stational liturgy - in Rome as one means to assert papal authority over the city's Christian communities and especially over the resident Roman senatorial aristocracy. Leo's Sermons indicate that the bishop found new ways to centralize the liturgy at St Peter's in the Va…
Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome
Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome
Constantine and the Roman Senate
Constantine's relations to the senate and to Rome's resident senatorial aristocracy have attracted a good deal of scholarly attention, but not consensus. In the aftermath of World War II a number of scholars followed a view developed by Hungarian scholar András Alföldi, who characterized that relationship as conflict-ridden and filled with friction between an aggressively Christianizing emperor and a staunchly pagan senatorial aristocracy, the on…
Gregor Kalas. The Restoration of the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity
This is one of a number of new books that have forced historians to reassess the vitality of the city of Rome even after Diocletian and the Tetrarchs had ensured that Rome would no longer be the sole imperial capital in the empire. Gregor Kalas’s book benefits from the use of digital mapping techniques and from an earlier research project through the UCLA Digital Humanities Center called “Visualizing Statues in the Late Roman Forum” (xiii). As Ka…
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