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Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire

Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire

This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly manly traits like militarism aggressive sexuality and the pursuit of power within a political system based on power sharing and cooperation. In deliberations in the Senate at social gatherings and on military campaign displays of consensus with other men greased the wheels of social discourse and built elite comradery. Through literary sources and inscriptions that offer censorious or affirmative appraisal of male behavior from the Middle and Late Republic (ca. 300–31 BCE) to the Principate or Early Empire (ca. 100 CE) this book shows how the vir bonus or good man the Roman persona of male aristocratic excellence modulated imperatives for personal distinction and military and sexual violence with political cooperation and moral exemplarity. While the advent of one-man rule in the Empire transformed political power relations ideals forged in the Republic adapted to the new climate and provided a coherent model of masculinity for emperor and senator alike. Scholars often paint a picture of Republic and Principate as distinct landscapes but enduring ideals of male self-fashioning constitute an important continuity. Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire provides a fascinating insight into the intertwined nature of masculinity and political power for anyone interested in Roman political and social history and those working on gender in the ancient world more broadly.

GBP 130.00
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Disaster in the Early Modern World Examinations Representations Interventions

Disaster in the Early Modern World Examinations Representations Interventions

How did early modern societies think about disasters such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster and how did they intervene to mitigate its destructive effects? This collection showcases the breadth of new work on the period ca. 1300-1750. Covering topics that range from new thinking about risk and securitisation to the protection of dikes from shipworm and with a geography that extends from Europe to Spanish America the volume places early modern disaster studies squarely at the intersection of intellectual cultural and socio-economic history. This period witnessed fresh speculation on nature the diffusion of disaster narratives and imagery and unprecedented attempts to control the physical world. The book will be essential to specialists and students of environmental history and disaster as well as general readers who seek to discover how pre-industrial societies addressed some of the same foundational issues we grapple with today. | Disaster in the Early Modern World Examinations Representations Interventions

GBP 130.00
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The Arithmetica of Diophantus A Complete Translation and Commentary

The Arithmetica of Diophantus A Complete Translation and Commentary

This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus of Alexandria’s Arithmetica along with a comprehensive conceptual historical and mathematical commentary. Before his work became the inspiration for the emerging field of number theory in the seventeenth century Diophantus (ca. 3rd c. CE) was known primarily as an algebraist. This volume explains how his method of solving arithmetical problems agrees both conceptually and procedurally with the premodern algebra later practiced in Arabic Latin and European vernaculars and how this algebra differs radically from the modern algebra initiated by François Viète and René Descartes. It also discusses other surviving traces of ancient Greek algebra and follows the influence of the Arithmetica in medieval Islam Byzantium and the European Renaissance down to the 1621 publication of Claude-Gaspard Bachet’s edition. After the English translation the book provides a problem-by-problem commentary explaining the solutions in a manner compatible with Diophantus’s mode of thought. The Arithmetica of Diophantus provides an invaluable resource for historians of mathematics science and technology as well as those studying ancient Greek medieval Islamic and Byzantine and Renaissance history. In addition the volume is also suitable for mathematicians and mathematics educators. | The Arithmetica of Diophantus A Complete Translation and Commentary

GBP 120.00
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Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas

Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas

St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296–1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a twenty-year period. An Athonite monk abbot and later Metropolitan of Thessalonica Gregory is remembered especially for his distinction between God’s essence and energies and his celebrated doctrine still generates a great deal of debate. What does Palamas actually mean by the term energies? Are they ‘activities’ that God performs and if so how can they be eternal and uncreated? Indeed how could God be simple if he possesses energies distinct from his essence? Going beyond the Triads and the One Hundred and Fifty Chapters this book explores Palamas’s answers to these long-standing questions by analyzing all of the treatises produced by Palamas between the years 1338 and 1357. It seeks to understand what Palamas means when he speaks of God’s energies how he seeks to prove that they are distinct from the divine essence and how he explains that this distinction in no way violates the unity and simplicity of the one God in Trinity. Essence and Energies is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates postgraduates and scholars interested in Byzantine theology in the fourteenth century. | Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas

GBP 120.00
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