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Performing Justice in the Later Roman Empire
  • Peter Van Nuffelen
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2025
  • In the Later Roman Empire (AD 300–650), power seems to manifest itself mostly through legislation, bureaucracy, and an increasingly distant emperor. This book focuses instead on personal interaction as crucial to the exercise of power. It studies four social practices (petitions, parrhesia, intercession, and collective action) to show how they are much more dynamic than often assumed. These practices were guided by strong expectations of justice, which constrained the actions of superiors. They therefore allowed the socially inferior to develop strategies of conduct that could force the hand of the superior and, in extreme cases, lead to overturning hierarchical relations. Building on the analysis of these specific forms of interaction, the book argues for an understanding of late antique power rooted in the character and virtue of those invested with it.

The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius
  • Edition, Translation and Commentary
  • Edited and translated by Peter Van Nuffelen, Lieve Van Hoof
  • Assisted by Maria Conterno, Lorenzo Focanti, Andy Hilkens, Panagiotis Manafis, Marianna Mazzola, Stephanie Pambakian
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025
  • This is the first systematic collection of the remains of the lost Greek chronicles from the period AD 350–650 and provides an edition and translation of and commentary on the fragments. Introducing neglected authors and proposing new interpretations, it reveals the diversity of the genre and revises traditional views about its development, nuancing in particular the role usually attributed to Eusebius of Caesarea. It shows how the writing of chronicles was deeply entangled in controversies about exegesis and liturgy, especially the dates of Christmas and Easter. Drawing from Latin, Armenian, Syriac and Arabic sources besides Greek ones, the book also studies how chronographic material travelled across linguistic and cultural boundaries. In this way, it sheds a profoundly new light on historiography in transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

  • 4 - Lucian and Philosophy

  • from Part I
    • By
  • Edited by Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Lucian
    Published online:
    07 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 78-98

  • Summary

    Assessments of Lucian’s attitude towards philosophy have tended to focus on how much he really knew about philosophy, which school he preferred, and if his texts can be read as philosophy. This chapter argues that Lucian’s attitude is best understood as reflecting the central position philosophy occupied in imperial elite culture. As Lucian satirises elite paideia from within that same paideia, criticising imperial philosophy implied assuming a philosophical stance or appropriating philosophical concepts and vocabulary. Lucian explores themes that were current in philosophical discourse of the Roman Empire, such as the expectation of matching doctrine and deed, salaries for philosophical education, and ancient wisdom. Whilst he shows awareness of technical terminology, his writings are mostly concerned with protreptic and the question if one has to dedicate oneself fully to a philosophical life. His ubiquitous satire, even in works deemed ‘more serious’, does not permit firm conclusions about Lucian’s own ideas and solicits multiple interpretations on the part of the reader.

  • Chapter 11 - Coercion in Late Antiquity: A Brief Intellectual History

  • from Part III - Religious Violence in Late Antiquity
  • Edited by Jitse H. F. Dijkstra, University of Ottawa, Christian R. Raschle, Université de Montréal
  • Book:
    Religious Violence in the Ancient World
    Published online:
    18 September 2020
    Print publication:
    01 October 2020, pp 266-285

  • Summary

    Religious violence is usually taken to encompass clashes between religious groups and the destruction these caused, as well as violence organised by institutions, in particular state and Church, against religious minorities. Using a broader definition of violence than just physical violence,2 such institutional violence included measures used to coerce individuals to abandon certain practices and beliefs judged harmful to society and themselves. This conjures up the question as to what coercion actually meant in Late Antiquity.

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