Sökning: "senate"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade ordet senate.
1. Age of rust. : Court and power in the Severan age (188-238 AD)
Sammanfattning : The Severan age has become known as a time when Syrian empresses brought eastern influences to Rome and transformed the stable principate into an absolutist state ready for the dominate. Every tie to the old principate was broken in a conscious attempt to change the fundamental structure of society. LÄS MER
2. Honorius and the city of Rome : Authority and legitimacy in late antiquity
Sammanfattning : This study examines the importance of the concept of Roma et Augustus, the close relationship between the Roman emperor and the city of Rome, in the reign of Honorius, who reigned in AD 395-423. Rome and the emperor were two of the most important and conspicuous manifestations of Roman civilisation and power, around which much of late antique ideology of authority and legitimacy was formulated. LÄS MER
3. "Individual and Aggregate Information Effects in the 2006 US Senate Election" and "Do Voters Know Enough About Politics? The Effect of Information on Voting Behavior"
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4. Making Enemies : The Logic of Immorality in Ciceronian Oratory
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the role played by the topic of immorality in the extant speeches of the Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)and subsequently in the Roman political culture of the late Republic. It traces the portraits of immorality that Cicero made of his political and forensic enemies throughout his political career and his use of immorality as an argument in the Roman Senate, public assembly, and the courts. LÄS MER
5. Den sjunde världsdelen : Västgötar och Västergötland 1646-1771. En identitetshistoria
Sammanfattning : This thesis considers regional identity in early-modern Sweden, taking its case from the province (landskap) of Västergötland 1646–1771. The aim is to investigate verbal expressions of regional identity. LÄS MER
