...-Roman cities in the aftermath of Roman collapse. The Rogation Days arose as a performance binding local Roman citizens to God and each other through communal penance. But within a generation, Rome was gone, the cities conquered, and the procession instead embodied the unity of the church...

... known as Romanization, attempted to standardize and generalize certain favored dogmas and devotions and then centralize ecclesiastical administration and orient it more toward Rome. The chapter notes the key feature of Romanization revolving around the creation of new bishoprics, new parishes, and new...

..., are madrigalesque in style, and not surprisingly so, given that their composers also set much madrigal verse. Elsewhere in sacred musical practice there was a tendency toward Romanization, a standardization of the Florentine liturgy that sought to establish a greater ritual alignment between Florentine and Roman...

...This chapter examines the prestige of English in mediating forms of romanization over the turn of the century. Discussing the definition and practice of romanization in the Oxford English Dictionary, the chapter turns to examine how Conrad’s work shapes their sociolinguistic effects...

... John Heart of Darkness Conrad K letter K effect of OED Kirilyo Sidorovich Razumov Under Western Eyes modernism scriptworld worldscript Bakhtin Mikhail chronotope Congo ethno nationalist imperative Korzeniowski Józef “Prince Roman” Conrad Russification script reforms standardization...

...This chapter examines the significance of Chinese script for a global multi-media transformation of romanized print form at the beginning of the twentieth century. The chapter first discusses recent histories of Chinese script reform in the early twentieth century. It turns then to examine...

...This chapter reviews the traditional understandings of the Roman Empire and reflects on how recent developments in the study of imperialism more generally could influence the future of Roman studies. It explores problems with the orthodox paradigm of Romanization and highlights the need...

...This chapter discusses how latrines and sewers, like other Roman building types and technologies that became staple features of Roman cities, depicted part of the architecture of Romanization and helped to establish a Roman presence throughout Italy. At the same time, the political motives behind...

...0 29 10 1998 In the end, it must be admitted that we do not have, and are perhaps now never likely to possess, the sort of evidence that would allow us to define exactly either the extent of Romanization in the frontier-zone or its effect on the lives of ordinary north Africans. It has been...

...0 21 12 2000 The change in the sense of identity of allied Italians in the period between the Roman conquest and the death of Augustus (AD 14) is an extremely important factor in the history of Italy. In the conventional picture, Italians moved from thinking of themselves in terms...

.... The stress is on the skill, courage, and discipline displayed by the gladiators in combat. It also considers the attitudes of the spectators: their knowledge of the combat techniques and their expectations are key to evaluating the social and cultural impact of the spectacle in Roman society. Given the time...

...The variety of recent scholarly approaches to identity issues concerning Greek cities of the Roman Empire illustrates the continued entanglement of modern ideas and ideals of power, politics, empires, and nations with classical antiquity. Modern treatments have often veered between binary...

...This chapter provides a brief introduction to how the historiographical development of Roman studies, since mid-twentieth century decolonization, has altered our understanding of the developments which took place in North Africa following the destruction of Carthage in 146 bce. The reader...

...This study explores social attitudes toward “Greeklish”, an online discursive practice involving the use of the Roman alphabet to write Greek. Approaching Greeklish from the perspective of current theories that attempt to connect global with local practices, the study analyzes a corpus of Greek...

... interfaces Bolton K dialect Internet Relay Chat synchronicity Luke K K split screen format bilingualism code mixing formality informality language simplified Chinese characters standardization writing systems code switching creativity cultural Gao L Li L Li Y romanization of non Roman...

...Figure 6.1 Jerome, Chronicle, as arranged in Burgerbibliothek Bern, Cod. 219, f. 45r Photograph: Codices Electronici AG, www.e-codices.ch ) The conclusion begins with a summary of the conclusions of the preceding chapters. Most generally, uses of Roman information...

...Focuses on the turning away from a Catholicism grounded in the American democratic tradition in the years 1820–1880. This was a key transition period in American Catholic history. What took place was a thorough Romanization of Catholicism in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. During...

... of late Iron Age and early Roman Britain in order to gain a more comprehensive picture. This study analyzes literary and material evidence alongside comparative figures of female leadership and rebellion, from the seer Veleda to Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes. The interpretation of Tacitus’s...

... earlier scholarly views on integration and identity and presents the most recent theories regarding these concepts. In doing so, it reviews earlier literature on the much-debated issue of Romanization. It also introduces economic theories that will be applied in the book, such as New Institutional...

...Matthijs Wibier, Legal Education and Legal Culture in Gaul during the Principate In: Law in the Roman Provinces. Edited by: Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt in collaboration with Meret Strothmann, Oxford University Press (2020). © Oxford University Press...