Few legal phenomena have been so relevant to premodern European societies as entails, a specific strategy that evolved to protect family inheritances and reproduce elite social status. Continued in modern practices such as trusts and LLCs, entails, as corporate bodies, functioned as a key site of social agency across Europe in the early modern period...
Polarity, Diversity, Confluence Mellon Advancing Intercultural Studies Conference March 7 & 8, 2019 An interdisciplinary exploration in the intersections of economic inequality, religious identity, contested histories and diversity in higher education READ MORE Full Schedule
What is it like to live and work in Greece for a year? John Haberstroh will share his experiences as a Regular Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA). As an ancient historian immersed in the world of classics and archaeology, John will offer his perspectives on the benefits of travel...
This past quarter, I had the opportunity to propose new authorship for the Latin poem, "Pange lingua gloriosi" to a group of ancient scholars from across the Pacific Coast at Western Washington University. My proposal that the fifth-century priest Claudianus Mamertus was the actual author of this poem, and not the sixth-century poet Venantius Fortunatus...
On Oct. 11, Michele Renee Salzman, professor in the Department of History, presented a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. The talk was titled: “Why Gibbon Was Wrong: 472 and the Fall of Rome.” Salzman spoke about her new book, “The ‘Falls’ of Rome: Social and Religious History of the...
Tuesday, November 27, 1:15-2:45pm - HMNSS 1303 Two UCR PhD students in Ancient Mediterranean History will share upcoming conference presentations: John Haberstroh, “The Social Networks of the Persian Satraps of Lydia,” to be delivered at “Networking in the Ancient World: Tracing, Understanding, and Interpreting Trade and Social Connections in the Ancient World,” University of Liverpool...
