Imperial Ideology
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"This article examines Greek and Macedonian political propaganda connected with the Celtic invasions of Greece and Asia Minor in the third century BCE. Because in the Greek world-view of the Hellenistic Age the Celts were seen as the... more
I argue that the Hellenistic empires were not the proto-modern, pseudo-European bounded states of earlier scholarship but that they were empires that cultivated universalistic ideologies no less than the Assyrian and Achaemenid empires... more
It has always being said that from the starting to crawl of the printing house in the Ottoman country to coming to the beginning of the 19th century with tottery and then standing on its foots, a printing-issuing explosion was lived in... more
This paper, written for a volume dedicated to client kingdoms in the Roman Near East, focuses on the Hellenistic background of the Roman system of client kingdoms. It is argued that the Roman system was essentially an adaptation of the... more
ENGLISH ABSTRACT Starting at least by the late tenth century, Byzantine emperors took icons of the Mother of God with them on campaign. This article examines the appearances of such icons in the narratives of historical texts. It argues... more
This paper examines how Golden Age imagery in Alexandrian court poetry is connected to the Ptolemaic ideology of kingship and empire. The paper first reviews the use of the motif of a Golden Age in court poetry -- especially the image of... more
The grant of the diwani to the East India Company in August 1765 represents a climacteric moment in British imperial histories. Vested by the Mughal Emperor Shah Allam II, this newfound right to collect revenue saddled the Company with... more
Sephardic printed ketubbot on the Balkans: Pictorial decorations as a reflection of the ideas of marital harmony and the duality of private and public in Jewish community's identity
Après avoir étudié respectivement les relations entre souverain et Église (Rome, 2017), les stratégies et rythmes de l’impérialité (Oxford, 2018), les langues des pseudo-empires (Madrid, 2018), et l’eschatologie impériale du souverain... more
Ciertos textos publicados entre la última década del siglo XVI y la primera quincena del siglo XVII (De La Puente, Fr. J., Tomo Primero de la Conveniencia de las dos Monarquias Catolicas, la de la Iglesia Romana y la del Imperio Español,... more