El golpe de Estado de Focas (602) by Carlos Martínez Carrasco

“…Starting from a reassessment of the available sources, a review of one of the key moments in the historical development of the Eastern Roman Empire is proposed, the coup d’état that brought Phocas to power in 602. …”
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The interpretation of the New Testament as the study of texts and contexts: hermeneutics, identities, communities by J. Punt

“…The latter also establishes the context, as the social setting of Paul’s letters with their rhetorical use of Othering was the Roman Empire with its identity politics. The rhetorical power of Paul and his scriptural texts contributed to discursive formations, since a strong sense of being and identity was negotiated through these texts, even when admitting that such formations are always in process, mutating and reformatting. …”
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The Church as <i>Res Publica</i> by Cyril Hovorun

“…As the church engaged with the Roman Empire, its republican roots faded, adopting monarchical traits. …”
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Christian prisoners: fifth and sixth century inscriptions from Corinth by C. Breytenbach

“…Inscriptiones Corinthi, regionis Corinthiae is available, the evidence on Christian prisoners in the later Roman Empire will be easily accessible.2 The texts consist of graffiti on limestone floor tiles. …”
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Les « coups de foudre » de Jupiter et l’exportation de la religion romaine en Gaule by Nicolas Laubry

“…The practice of burying or enclosing the fulgur is better attested in south-eastern Gaul than in any other province of the Western Roman Empire. The presence of this ritual of Roman origin has generally been connected to a supposed pre-Roman lightning cult which would have continued in that way during the Principate, especially in the countryside as a consequence of a form of syncretism favoured by its inhabitants. …”
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« Faire clair et vif avec des éléments complexes » by Cordula Reichart

“…In its perverted relationship to the historical texts of reference, Hérodias unmasks the claim to supremacy of the rising clerical model of power, while the translatio of the Roman Empire gets radicalized in the figure of Aulus. …”
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Stations routières en Gaule romaine : architecture, équipements et fonctions by Fabien Colleoni

“…It also reminds us of the importance of this network, which provided crucial stopping points for those travelling in the Roman Empire.…”
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Proclaiming the gospel in Macedonia, Achaia and in every place. Missions and 1 Thessalonians 1:6-8 by P. G. R. de Villiers

“…Paul is often regarded as the zealous missionary who took the rural, Palestinian gospel of Jesus to key cities in the Roman Empire and thus contributed decisively to the founding of Christianity. …”
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Le mausolée de la villa d’Ussol à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône) by Philippe Mellinand, Elsa Sagetat-Basseuil

“…The mausoleum excavated at the Ussol ZAC (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône) presents distinctive features that make it all the more interesting: funerary chamber in a large structure, dating going back to the Late Roman Empire, located just beside a villa... It was originally built for a single, central burial, but seems to have been partly rebuilt to accommodate a second stone vault, next to the first one, in the semi-hypogeum chamber. …”
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Lauterbeckův Regentenbuch a Veleslavínova Politia historica by Matěj Novotný

“…They resulted from the different political conditions in the Holy Roman Empire and in the Kingdom of Bohemia, and also from the different personal opinions of the two authors. …”
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Lead poisoning in ancient Rome by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…The authors thus suggest that chronic lead poisoning did not contribute significantly to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. …”
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Entering the corridors of power: state and church in the reception history of Revelation by Pieter G. R. de Villiers

“…First, the article will discuss how Oecumenius rereads Revelation to appease the Roman Empire of his time and to resist an apocalyptic fervour that could threaten the well-being of the State. …”
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Acting on behalf of the Bohemian King: Ferdinand Ernst von Waldstein’s Journey to Westphalia (1645–1647) by Jiří Hrbek

“…Although he only took part in discussions that concerned one specific disputed issue, namely the return of the electoral vote to the Count Palatine of the Rhine, his presence at the meeting represents important evidence about the relations between the Czech Lands and the Holy Roman Empire during the period prior to the readmission of the Bohemian Elector and his representatives to the Electoral College, which occurred as late as in 1708. …”
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Quand le jardin révèle un imaginaire du paysage méditerranéen : les Colombières de Ferdinand Bac by Agnès du Vachat

“…Drawing inspiration from art, literature, and his travel experiences, he recreated in his garden landscape scenes evoking Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Spain under the Arabian and Catholic influences, and Renaissance Italy. …”
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Ostrov Pereon a středoevropská misie kolem roku 1000 by Jan Stejskal

“… The period of the rule of emperor Otto III represents the new approach of the Church and Holy Roman Empire towards the newly formed states at the center of Europe. …”
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Nijmegen, from Oppidum Batavorum to Ulpia Noviomagus, civitas of the Batavi: two successive civitas-capitals by Harry Van Enckevort, Elly N. A. Heirbaut

“…The history of Nijmegen during the first centuries of the Christian era mirrors events in the north-west of the Roman Empire. Around 19 BC, at the start of the third phase of conquest to the north with much military activity, the Oppidum Batavorum was founded in the centre of modern Nijmegen. …”
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Aux origines gauloises de Tours (Indre-et-Loire) : état des connaissances by Sandrine Linger-Riquier

“…It benefitted from the privilege of being a free city during the Early Roman Empire, subsequently becoming a chief town of the Lyonnaise III during Late Antiquity; but was it of Gallic origin? …”
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Entre Narbonnaise et Italie : le territoire de la province des Alpes Maritimae pendant l’Antiquité romaine (ier s. av. J.-C. - ve s. apr. J.-C.) by Stéphane Morabito

“…Under the rule of an equestrian praefectus as soon of their integration into the Roman Empire, the Alpes Maritimae remained as a praefectura for several decades. …”
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Tradycja przedstawiania zmarłych w Cesarstwie Rzymskim od I do III w. n.e. w świetle źródeł literackich oraz wybranych wizerunków z Rzymu i Egiptu by Martyna Marszałek

“…(The Tradition of Representing the Deceased in the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 3rd Century CE in Light of Literary Sources and Selected Portraits from Rome and Egypt): This article discusses how the ancient Romans experienced the loss of their loved ones and what customs were associated with commemorating the dead. …”
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Metamorphoses of Corpus Christi: Eucharistic Processions & Clashes in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Vienna by Károly Goda

“… Through analysing the processional veneration of the Eucharist in Vienna, this study re-assesses and differentiates the existing theories on the socio-cultural roles of Central European Corpus Christi processions in the context of one of the most significant residential and capital cities of the Holy Roman Empire. After presenting a historiographical and methodological contextualisation the study scrutinizes Viennese Eucharistic marches in a longue durée approach, i.e. reaching from the thirteenth until the sixteenth century. …”
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