Ramsay Macmullen
Biographic Data
| ID | 990684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ramsay Macmullen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ramsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Macmullen |
| SIGNATURE | MACMULLEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 509 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Changes in the Roman Empire
The Place of the Holy Man in the Later Roman Empire
The early centuries in the history of Christian asceticism, and of monasticism to which it gave rise, invite a short and accessible overview. The present article aims to supply this. It relies on a very large sampling of texts, mostly hagiographic. As ascetics are there to be seen described by contemporaries and near-contemporaries, they share many traits which can be grouped under principal headings and frequency of mention. A statistical profil…
Changes in the Roman Empire
Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A.D. 50 and 450. Here, for example, the author applies statistical analysis to broad groups of people on matters ranging from justice through medicine to language. In so doing he is able to substantiate general statements about routines in ordinary peop…
Romanization in the Time of Augustus
During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, city design, clothing, and leisure and family activities. In his newest book, Ramsay MacMullen investigates why the adoption of Roman ways was so prevalent during this period. Drawing largely on archaeological sources, MacMullen discover…
Roman Religion
The subject touches on both ancient and modern history. Discussion can most conveniently separate the two, beginning with the practice in question, ancestor worship, emphasizing its grand proportions while leaving detail to the notes and Appendix. The proportions themselves, however, present a striking contrast to the modern treatment, better called neglect, that the cultural phenomenon has received. This contrast invites explanation
Psychology and Individuals
My Preface declared my target for study: collectivities and social behavior. What can psychology, given its ordinary focus on the individual, tell us about population groups of one kind or another? My aim in this first chapter is to identify points of similarity between the individual and the collectivity, with the hope of transferring psychology's insights about the former to the latter. This we commonly do in discussing national character or st…
Reason and Decision-making
21, "'hard' scientific methods". 8 "Precapitalist" quoted in Fogel and Engerman (1974) 64; for an example of a civilization of the sort, "irrational" in valuing money in order to give it away in exchange for non-monetary rewards, see the magnum opus of Paul Veyne (1976). 9 An example in Australia
Why Do We Do What We Do? Motivation in History and the Social Sciences
Why we do what we do is a matter of great interest to everyone, and everyone seems to have had their say about it - philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, economists, and historians perhaps the most, case by case. Occasionally the specialists have offered their ideas to a general readership, but mostly they prefer to speak to and with their fellows in their particular disciplines. To evaluate and compare their findings in a c…
The Translation of History into Economics
In Economic Origins of Roman Christianity, as in their earlier works, Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., and Robert D. Tollison propose the forcing of history into the once-favored rational-agent template of economics, as an aid to a better understanding. Their terminology of choice amounts to translation, applied in a novel way. In the circle of Ekelund and Tollison, this approach has given rise in recent decades to an active social-scientific sub-specialt…
The Earliest Romans
"A vibrant account that puts flesh on the bare bones of early Roman history." ---Celia Schultz, University of Michigan The ancient Romans' story down to 264 B.C. can be made credible by stripping away their later myths and inventions to show how their national character shaped their destiny. After many generations of scholarly study, consensus is clear: the account in writers like Livy is not to be trusted because their aims were different from o…
Historians Take Note
Whether we act as we do at the urging of our thinking mind or of our feelings is something we don't ordinarily see in simple terms. The two alternatives are better thought of as opposing poles on a scale. Action at different moments will be better explained, but not completely explained, by the one or by the other. Overall, or in a given week, it wouldn't be easy to say which had most controlled our behavior. That is how the layman thinks, anyway
Historiens, attention
Sarah's Choice, 1828-1832
Romanization in the Time of Augustus
During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, city design, clothing, and leisure and family activities. In this vivid book, Ramsay MacMullen investigates why the adoption of Roman ways was so prevalent during this period. Drawing largely on archaeological sources, MacMullen discover…
A Copybook Romance
Levi Lincoln's desperate plea of insanity on Mrs. Spooner's behalf, Navas repeatedly emphasizes the inherent irrationality (p. 57) of the murder plot, characterizes Bathsheba's behavior during the days and hours leading up to the crime as than little deranged (p. 56), and insists that she must have in a continuing state of dissociation (p. 64) on the night of husband's violent demise. To support the theory of mental illness or breakdown, Navas, l…
Sarah's Choice, 1828-1832
Sisters of the Brush
Corruption and the Decline of Rome
Corruption and the Decline of Rome
Corruption and the Decline of Rome
The Preacher's Audience (Ad 350–400)
Journal Article THE PREACHER'S AUDIENCE (AD 350–400) Get access RAMSAY MACMULLEN RAMSAY MACMULLEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, October 1989, Pages 503–511, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/40.2.503 Published: 01 October 1989
The First Christians I
Journal Article Christianizing the Roman Empire (A.D. 100–140), by Ramsay Macmullen, The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul, by Wayne A. Meeks, The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity: Essays on Corinth. by Gerd Theissen, edited and translated and with an introduction by John H. Schuetz and The Christians as the Romans Saw Them. by Robert L. Wilken Get access G. H. Mueller G. H. Mueller The American University Search …
Christianizing the Roman Empire
Personal Power in the Roman Empire
Christianizing the Roman Empire (A. D. 100-400)
The Epigraphic Habit in the Roman Empire
Market-Days in the Roman Empire
NO ASPECT OF COMMERCE in the Roman empire has been more neglected than that which involves the movement of goods within any given fifteen-mile radius;' yet this local trade must account for a good three quarters of the value of exchange throughout the economy as a whole. What was its routine? The question is best explored within three settings: in quite isolated rural markets, in villages, and in cities. In almost every region of the ancient worl…
Changes in the Roman Empire
Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A.D. 50 and 450. Here, for example, the author applies statistical analysis to broad groups of people on matters ranging from justice through medicine to language. In so doing he is able to substantiate general statements about routines in ordinary peop…
Enemies of the Roman Order
Barbarian Enclaves in the Northern Roman Empire
Besides the barbarians admitted to the army, hundreds of thousands were received — men, women, and children — into the Roman empire, to be settled in reservations. The practise is of significance from the late second century on. Archaeology reveals signs of perhaps ten tribes represented in France, Germany, and the Low Countries. What is interesting about them is the increasing tenacity with which they retained their own traditions of pottery, je…
Enemies of the Roman Order
Cato, Brutus, and their succession philosophers magicians astrologers, diviners, and prophets urban unrest the outsiders conclusion. Appendices: famines brigandage
Inscriptions on Armor and the Supply of Arms in the Roman Empire
Personal Power in the Roman Empire
Romanization in the Time of Augustus
During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, city design, clothing, and leisure and family activities. In this vivid book, Ramsay MacMullen investigates why the adoption of Roman ways was so prevalent during this period. Drawing largely on archaeological sources, MacMullen discover…
Social Mobility and the Theodosian Code
Until recent centuries, historians had to reckon with only limited social movement. I use the phrase in a very wide sense, to cover change of habitation, profession, or class; but even so defined, in a world dominated numerically by small farmers, people rarely moved around, or up or down, socially. This is as true of the thirteenth as of the third century. But it is usual to say that, granted these limitations, social movement was still much mor…
Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
Enemies of the Roman Order. Treason, Unrest, and Alienation in the Empire
Roman Elite Motivation
Journal Article ROMAN ELITE MOTIVATION: THREE QUESTIONS Get access Ramsay MacMullen Ramsay MacMullen Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 88, Issue 1, August 1980, Pages 3–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/88.1.3 Published: 01 August 1980
Why Do We Do What We Do? Motivation in History and the Social Sciences
Why we do what we do is a matter of great interest to everyone, and everyone seems to have had their say about it - philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, economists, and historians perhaps the most, case by case. Occasionally the specialists have offered their ideas to a general readership, but mostly they prefer to speak to and with their fellows in their particular disciplines. To evaluate and compare their findings in a c…
The Translation of History into Economics
In Economic Origins of Roman Christianity, as in their earlier works, Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., and Robert D. Tollison propose the forcing of history into the once-favored rational-agent template of economics, as an aid to a better understanding. Their terminology of choice amounts to translation, applied in a novel way. In the circle of Ekelund and Tollison, this approach has given rise in recent decades to an active social-scientific sub-specialt…
Leisure and Pleasure in Roman Egypt
Inscriptions on Armor and the Supply of Arms in the Roman Empire
Three Notes on Imperial Estates
With the exception of what they seized or inherited from eastern kings, the Roman emperors gathered and administered their estates like private individuals. Imperial estates differed only in being bigger. For just this reason, however, more is known of them, and it is the purpose of these notes to shed light on large private holdings, and on the range of their economic potential, by looking at three unusual kinds of activity on crown lands: the r…
Soldier and Civilian in the Later Roman Empire
Barbarian Enclaves in the Northern Roman Empire
Besides the barbarians admitted to the army, hundreds of thousands were received — men, women, and children — into the Roman empire, to be settled in reservations. The practise is of significance from the late second century on. Archaeology reveals signs of perhaps ten tribes represented in France, Germany, and the Low Countries. What is interesting about them is the increasing tenacity with which they retained their own traditions of pottery, je…
The Focus of Interest in the Roman Empire
The Revolutions of Ancient Rome
Social Mobility and the Theodosian Code
Until recent centuries, historians had to reckon with only limited social movement. I use the phrase in a very wide sense, to cover change of habitation, profession, or class; but even so defined, in a world dominated numerically by small farmers, people rarely moved around, or up or down, socially. This is as true of the thirteenth as of the third century. But it is usual to say that, granted these limitations, social movement was still much mor…
Provincial Languages in the Roman Empire
The Frontier People of Roman Britain
Leisure and Pleasure in Roman Egypt
Enemies of the Roman Order
Enemies of the Roman Order
Cato, Brutus, and their succession philosophers magicians astrologers, diviners, and prophets urban unrest the outsiders conclusion. Appendices: famines brigandage
Enemies of the Roman Order. Treason, Unrest, and Alienation in the Empire
Enemies of the Roman Order
Rural Romanization
Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome
Constantine
Scholae Palatinae
Market-Days in the Roman Empire
NO ASPECT OF COMMERCE in the Roman empire has been more neglected than that which involves the movement of goods within any given fifteen-mile radius;' yet this local trade must account for a good three quarters of the value of exchange throughout the economy as a whole. What was its routine? The question is best explored within three settings: in quite isolated rural markets, in villages, and in cities. In almost every region of the ancient worl…
Textile Manufacture in the Northern Roman Provinces
The work covers the period 57 B.C. to c. A.D. 400 in the provinces of Britain, Northern Gaul and Germany; it is based on extant cloth fragments (many previously unrecorded) and evidence is also adduced from implements, literary sources and modern primitive communities. The chapters treat textile fibres (wool, silk, linen, hemp, cotton and other fibres like rabbit hair and bast); preparation for spinning of these fibres; use of the distaff, spindl…
Roman Social Relations, 50 B.C. to A.D. 284
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
Roman Government's Response to Crisis, A.D. 235-337
Roman Elite Motivation
Journal Article ROMAN ELITE MOTIVATION: THREE QUESTIONS Get access Ramsay MacMullen Ramsay MacMullen Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 88, Issue 1, August 1980, Pages 3–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/88.1.3 Published: 01 August 1980
The Epigraphic Habit in the Roman Empire
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