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This book surveys the practice of horse racing from antiquity to
the modern period, and in this way offers a selective global
history. Unlike previous histories of horse racing, which generally
make claims about the exclusiveness of modern sport and therefore
diminish the importance of premodern physical contests, the
contributors to this book approach racing as a deep history of
diachronically comparable practices, discourses, and perceptions
centered around the competitive staging of equine speed. In order
to compare horse racing cultures from completely different epochs
and regions, the authors respond to a series of core issues which
serve as structural comparative parameters. These key issues
include the spatial and architectural framework of races; their
organization; victory prizes; symbolic representations of victories
and victors; and the social range and identities of the
participants. The evidence of these competitions is interpreted in
its distinct historical contexts and with regard to specific
cultural conditions that shaped the respective relationship between
owners, riders, and horses on the global racetracks of
pre-modernity and modernity. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of The International
Journal of the History of Sport.
Bringing together a team of international experts from different
subject areas including law, history, archaeology and anthropology
this book re-evaluates the traditional narratives surrounding the
origins of Roman law before the enactment of the Twelve Tables.
Much is now known about the archaic period, relevant evidence from
later periods continues to emerge and new methodologies bring the
promise of interpretive inroads. This book explores whether, in
light of recent developments in these fields, the earliest history
of Roman law should be reconsidered. Drawing upon the critical
axioms of contemporary sociological and anthropological theory, the
contributors yield new insights and offer new perspectives on
Rome's early legal history. In doing so, they seek to revise our
understanding of Roman legal history as well as to enrich our
appreciation of its culture as a whole.
At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture, and Religion'
brings together recent research from a range of upcoming and
well-established scholars to demonstrate the richness of the
cross-cultural exchange of ideas around the ancient Mediterranean
along with the reception of and continuing dialogues with these
ideas in the medieval and modern worlds. The crossroads theme both
honours the memory of our late colleague and friend Carin M. C.
Green, who published an important book on the cult of Diana-one of
whose aspects was Trivia, the goddess of crossroads-and emphasizes
how each encounter of new topic or genre forces the reader to pause
and think before proceeding down the new path. The contents are
arranged accordingly under three headings: (1) Greek philosophy,
history, and historiography; (2) Latin literature, history, and
historiography; and (3) Greco-Roman material culture, religion, and
literature. These papers also coincide in myriad ways across the
three headings, tracing themes such as friendship, leadership, and
the reception of ideas in the arenas of philosophy, historiography,
manuscript studies, poetry, medicine, art, and war. Within this
delimited framework, the volume's diversity of topics and
approaches to a range of genres in the Greco- Roman world is
intended both to appeal to the general scholar with varied
interests and to offer students a wide scope through which to
consider those genres.
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