Cuicul civic prison (2nd century CE). Image taken from 3D model of the space, © Letteney and Larsen.
Cuicul civic prison (2nd century CE). Image taken from 3D model of the space, © Letteney and Larsen.
For my part, I want to examine some of the evidence for the material realities of punishment in the Roman world, exploring a few spaces that bring archaeological and affective texture to the penal and carceral language informing tours of hell to which that Henning so insightfully points in her book.
Read MorePanel from an ivory dyptich of Rufius Probianus, who was vicarius urbis Romae around 400 CE. [Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. fol. 323, Buchkasten].
Panel from an ivory dyptich of Rufius Probianus, who was vicarius urbis Romae around 400 CE. [Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. fol. 323, Buchkasten].
There are several ways to think about the rise of Christianity. I have chosen to tell this story in this manner because I think that it helps to elucidate a number of fascinating shifts in late antiquity, and some of the shifts that I detail continue to reverberate today.
Read More"Lenski’s book thus offers not a picture of Constantine at all, but a series of portraits artfully arranged – some by Constantine himself, some by his image-makers, and some by contemporary scholars trying to make sense of this complex, enigmatic, kaleidoscopic character. "
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