Literary-theoretical Transformations of Social Models

This study investigates transformations of classical antiquity oikonomia and chrematistics from the Middle Ages to the present-day.From an ancient- historical, philosophical, literary and cultural-science perspective, it reconstructs exemplary acquisitions and reinterpretations of economic knowledge. The study argues that the modern economy has benefited from transformation relationships with the oikonomia of classical antiquity, which exhibit no unambiguously economic, efficient and profit-maximising character. For this reason, in addition to actual historical aspects, our interest also includes issues relating to the poetology of economic knowledge, the metaphorology and scenaristics of the house, the theoretical, narrative and literary representation economies and the promotion of ‘economy’ to an ordering category per se

Herkules – Held zwischen Tugend und Hybris. Ein europäischer Erinnerungsort der Frühen Neuzeit?

This essay traces some of the contexts and media in which "Heracles-Hercules" - as a hero between virtue and hubris - was visible in European societies from the end of the middle ages onwards. It discusses whether this example of the reception, appropriation and transformation of classical myths in the early modern period can be understood as a European "lieu de mémoire", and to what extent the concept of "lieux de mémoire" (or sites of memory) can foster our understanding of a particular object of study (here the Heracles/Hercules myth). Against this backdrop, we conclude with some general questions about the more ambitious project* of a comprehensive register of European "lieux de mémoire". * * Published as: Boer, Pim den / Duchhardt, Heinz / Kreis, Georg / Schmale, Wolfgang (eds.): Europäische Erinnerungsorte, 3 vols., Munich 2011–201

Cour sans « État ». L’aula Caesaris aux ier et iie siècles de notre ère

État de la question « Ce serait un travail profitable sous bien des rapports que d’entreprendre d’étudier dans son développement, important même pour l’histoire politique, l’organisation domestique de la maison impériale. Mais ce n’est pas dans un traité de droit public que ce problème peut trouver sa solution. » C’est par ces mots que Theodor Mommsen aborde le chapitre qu’il consacre à « la cour et la maison de l’empereur romain » dans son étude classique intitulée Le droit public romain. De..

Loucura imperial na Roma antiga

Este artigo aborda a questão da "loucura imperial" na Roma antiga, indagando-se sobre o que seria peculiar a ações de imperadores, como Calígula, Nero e Domiciano, que conduziu a conflitos com a aristocracia. Argumenta-se que apenas uma análise das estruturas e sistemas históricos do Alto Império possibilita explicar certos padrões de comportamento imperial, usualmente classificados como loucura pela historiografia dos séculos XIX e XX

Zwischen Strukturgeschichte und Biographie. Probleme und Perspektiven einer neuen Römischen Kaisergeschichte zur Zeit von Augustus bis Commodus

Die Geschichte der römischen Kaiser wurde im 20. Jahrhundert von der seriösen Historiographie meist vernachlässigt. Die in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze loten die Möglichkeiten einer neuen, strukturgeschichtlich fundierten und personalistische Erklärungsmuster vermeidenden Kaisergeschichte aus. Behandelt werden die Quellenproblematik, die strukturellen Bedingungen kaiserlicher Handlungsfelder und die biographische Forschung zu den Kaisern von Augustus bis Commodus (31 v. Chr. &#8211 192 n. Chr.). Beiträge von Christer Bruun, Olivier Hekster, Ralf von den Hoff, Martin Hose, Christian Ronning, Dirk Schnurbusch, Gunnar Seelentag, Dieter Timpe, Uwe Walter, Aloys Winterling, Christian Witschel, Martin Zimmermann

Aula Caesaris : Studien zur Institutionalisierung des römischen Kaiserhofes in der Zeit von Augustus bis Commodus (31 v. Chr.-192 n. Chr.) /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-245) and indexes