Assos se trouve sur la côte sud de la Troade, entre le Cap Lekton et Gargara, juste en face de l’île de Lesbos. Les fouilles effectuées à Assos entre 1981-2004 sous la direction de M. Ümit Serdaroğlu nous ont fournis des monnaies grecques et romaines provinciales de la ville en bronze qui sont le sujet de la thèse. Un catalogue dressé en rassemblant toutes les monnaies d’Assos en bronze publiées dans les collections publiques, les collections privées, les catalogues de vente et les publications de fouilles nous a donné des informations concernant le monnayage de la ville: leurs datations, types, légendes, dénomination et le volume des émissions. Les monnaies étrangères trouvées dans les fouilles sont également examinées afin de voir la circulation monétaire dans la ville et dans la région. Cette étude nous a donné des renseignements supplémentaires non seulement sur le monnayage de la ville mais aussi sur l’histoire de la ville et des autres villes de la région. / Assos is situated in the south of Troas region, on the coastline between the cities of Cap Lekton and Gargara and just opposite Lesbos Island.The coins of Greek and Roman provinces found during the excavations conducted by the leadership of Professor Ümit Serdaroğlu between the years of 1981 and 2004 constitute the subject of this thesis.The catalogue which contains the coins of all the published public and private collections and auctions together with those found in the excavation informs us about the mint policy of the city. Moreover the coins which belonged to foreign cities and kingdoms and also were acquired during the excavation take part in the thesis.The research on the coins gives us considerable information about the history of the cities in the region as well as the circulation of the coins within the city.

This thesis examines the post-Roman and Anglo-Saxon religious reuse of Roman structures, particularly burials associated with Roman structures, and churches on or near Roman buildings. Although it is known that the Anglo-Saxons existed in and interacted with the vestigial, physical landscape of Roman Britain, the specific nature and result of this interaction has not been completely understood. The present study examines the Anglo-Saxon religious reuse of Roman structures in an attempt to understand the Anglo-Saxon perception of Roman structures and the impact they had on the developing ecclesiastical landscape. In particular, the study reveals how we may better understand the structural coincidence of Roman buildings and early-medieval religious activity in the light of the apparent discontinuity between many Roman and early-medieval landscapes in Britain. The study begins by providing an overview of the evidence for existing Roman remains in the Anglo-Saxon period. It examines the archaeological and historical evidence, and discusses literary references to Roman structures in an attempt to ascertain how the ruins of Roman villas, towns and forts would have been perceived. Particular attention is paid to The Ruin, a poem in Old English which provides us with our only contemporary description of Roman remains in Britain. The first chapter concludes by examining the evidence for the religious reuse of Roman secular structures in Gaul and Rome, providing a framework into which the evidence in the subsequent chapters is placed. The examination the proceeds to burials on or associated with Roman structures. It shows that the practice of interring the dead into Roman structures occurred between the fifth and eighth centuries, but peaked at the beginning of the seventh, with comparatively few sites at the extreme end of the data range. The discussion is based on the evidence of 115 sites that show this burial rite, but it is very apparent that this number is only a fragment of the whole, as these inhumations are often mistakenly identified as Roman, even when the stratigraphy demonstrates that burial occurred after the ruin of the villa, as is often the case. The placement of the bodies show a conscious reuse of the ruinous architecture, rather then suggesting interment was made haphazardly on the site: frequently the body is placed either centrally within a room, or is in contact with some part of the Roman fabric. Some examples suggest that there may have been a preference for apsidal rooms for this purpose. Churches associated with Roman buildings are then examined, and their significance in the development of the English Christian landscape is discussed. Churches of varying status – from minsters to chapels – can be found on Roman buildings throughout the country. Roman structures were clearly chosen for the sites of churches from the earliest Christian period into the tenth, and probably even the eleventh century. Alternatives to the so-called proprietary model are examined, and their origins and development are discussed, particularly in reference to the continental evidence. The end of the study places the thesis into a wider landscape context, and introduces potential avenues of further exploration using GIS. The study concludes that there are a number of causes underlying the religious reuse of Roman buildings, each not necessarily exclusive of the other, and that the study of these sites can further any investigation into the development of the ecclesiastical topography of England, and the eventual development of the parochial landscape.

I examine how religion is presented in the Annals of Tacitus, and how it resonates with and adds complexity to the larger themes of the historian’s narrative. Memory is essential to understanding the place of religion in the narrative, for Tacitus constructs a picture of a Rome with ‘religious amnesia.’ The Annals are populated with characters, both emperors and their subjects, who fail to maintain the traditional religious practices of their forebears by neglecting prodigies and omens, committing impious murders, and even participating in the destruction of Rome’s sacred buildings. Alongside this forgetfulness of traditional religious practice runs the construction of a new memory – that of the deified Augustus – which leads to the veneration of living emperors in terms appropriate to gods. This religious narrative resonates with and illuminates Tacitean observations on the nature of power in imperial Rome. Furthermore, tracing the prominence of religious memory in the text improves our understanding of how Tacitus thinks about the past, and particularly how he thinks about the role of the historian in shaping memory for his readers. I consider various religious categories and their function in Tacitus’ writings, and how his characters interact with them: calendars (do Tacitus’ Romans preserve or change the traditional scheduling of festivals?), architecture (what determines the building of or alterations to temples and other religious monuments?), liturgy (do they worship in the same ways their ancestors did?), and images (how do they treat cult statues?). I analyze the patterns of behaviour, both in terms of ritual practice and in how Tacitus’ characters think about and interpret the supernatural, and consider how Rome’s religious past features in these patterns. The thesis is structured according to the reigns of individual emperors. Four chapters chart Tiberius’ accession, Germanicus’ death, its aftermath, and Sejanus’ rise to power; one chapter examines the religious antiquarian Claudius; and the final chapter analyzes Nero’s impieties and their consequences.

Belief in prophetic inspiration and the possibility of discerning the future was a cornerstone of medieval conceptions of history and of God’s workings within that history. But prophecy’s significance for the Middle Ages is due as much to the multiplicity of its meanings as to its role as an engine of history. Prophetia was described in terms ranging from prediction and historiography to singing and teaching. This thesis examines the attempts of medieval thinkers to wrestle with these ambiguities. The nature and implications of prophetic inspiration were a crucial area of contention during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, as scholastic theologians, with their particular techniques and standards of rationality, attempted to make systematic sense of inspired speech and knowledge. These attempts reveal a great deal about medieval structures of knowledge, and about theological reflections on the Church’s place in history. The stakes were high: ‘prophecy’ not only was the subject of Old Testament exegesis, but also, in its various forms, was often the basis of authority for exegetes and theologians themselves, as well as for preachers, visionaries, saints, and even writers of secular works. Those who claimed the mantle of the prophet came just as easily from inside the institutional structures as from outside. Theologians began legitimating a moderate form of inspiration that justified their own work through ordinary activities such as teaching and preaching, while trying to keep at bay perceived threats from powerful assertions of prophetic authority, such as Islam, female visionaries, and schismatic and apocalyptic Franciscans. This study argues that, as theologians sought to determine the limits of prophetic privilege, and to shape prophecy for their own purposes, they actually opened space for claims of divine insight to proliferate in those ordinary activities, and in a way that went beyond their control.

My doctoral thesis examines the intellectual and political relationship between England and the general councils of the Church from the Council of Pisa until the Council of Trent. It illuminates the hitherto unexplored features of the revolution that was the end of universal papal authority. With the transfer of spiritual authority to Henry VIII, the heads of England’s Protestant regimes inherited the papacy’s distrust of the general council, which had the potential to interfere with the course of the reformation in England. At the same time, the thesis examines the changing nature of public commitment to universal decision-making in the Church in the face of resistance by hierarchs (papal or royal). It finds a widespread support for the general council over the period, but also a plurality of views about how conciliar government could be reconciled with monarchical rule in the Church. In the fifteenth century, conciliarism had to contend with the suspicions of those who wished to shore up the Church hierarchy against Wycliffite attacks. In the sixteenth century, there was still competition between the establishment’s defence of an hierarchical Church, directed by the monarchy, and theories which stressed the importance of conciliar government. These arguments took different shapes when used by popular rebels in favour of traditional religion grounded on conciliar consent, or by Protestants in favour of synodal government by the godly. But they were both outcomes of enduring instabilities in the ideology of Church government, which had their roots in the fifteenth century.

In this thesis, a collective urban sector-consisting, in various different guises, of civic governments, urban merchants, and townspeople-is presented as a vital and distinctive component of later medieval English political society. The dynamics of this urban political sector are reconstructed through the use of a modified version of the 'urban systems' approach found in historical geography and economic history, positing that towns are defined by their evolving relationship with one another. Drawing from the municipal records of twenty-two towns, this thesis charts the composition of the later medieval English 'urban system' and the manner in which urban groups belonging to this 'system' participated in a broader national political sphere over four chronological periods-1413-35, 1435-50, 1450-61, and 1461-71. In 1413-35, the highly authoritative and institutionalised governments of Henry V and the child Henry VI fostered vertical relationships between the Crown and a variety of individual civic governments, leading both national and urban political actors to operate within a shared political culture, but not necessarily encouraging inter-urban political communication. This would change in the periods that followed, as the absence of strong royal authority after 1435 renewed the strength of lateral mercantile networks and facilitated the re-emergence of a semi-autonomous inter-urban political community, which saw little reason to participate in the civil wars of the early 1450s that now seemed divorced from its own interests. In the 1460s, however, the financially extractive policies of Edward IV once again gave civic governments and ordinary townspeople a greater stake in royal government, which was reflected in the high level of urban participation in the dynastic conflicts of 1469-71. The developments occurring in these four phases illustrate both the interdependence of urban and national politics in the later medieval period, and the mutability of their relationship with one another.

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.

L’étude entreprise dans le cadre de cette thèse tente d’établir une synthèse sur l’évolution de la peinture murale romaine en Narbonnaise, sur une période chronologique allant du Ier s. av. J-C. au IIIème s. ap. J.-C. Elle s’appuie sur un catalogue recensant tous les décors connus jusqu’en 2011, soit 394 décors de parois et 29 décors de plafonds. Chaque décor fait l’objet d’une fiche synthétique qui replace chaque élément dans son contexte archéologique, avant de le décrire le plus précisément possible, en l’accompagnant des illustrations disponibles les plus pertinentes. L’analyse des décors a permis, dans un premier temps, de répertorier et classer tous les motifs existants. Le regroupement des motifs a été ensuite l’occasion de mettre en évidence des systèmes décoratifs (agencement des zones inférieure, médiane et supérieure) qui s’éloignent des styles pompéiens traditionnels. Enfin, la confrontation des systèmes décoratifs et des contextes architecturaux dans lesquels ils ont été trouvés, offrent la possibilité de s’interroger sur le rapport entre le décor et l’espace. / This PhD thesis presents a synthetical analysis and evolution of Roman paintings found in the province of Narbonensis from the 1st c. BC to the 3rd c. AD. It includes a catalogue of all the paintings known up to 2011: 394 wall paintings and 29 ceiling paintings. Each decorative effect is carefully described and placed within its archaeological context, and accompanied by the most relevant and best illustrations available. The subsequent analysis of the paintings allowed the reorganisation and classification of all the decorative elements. The resulting groups of elements demonstrate the use of various decorative systems (decoration of lower, medium and upper parts of the walls) which appear to be different from the canonical Pompeian styles. Finally, a comparison of these decorative systems with the architectural contexts in which theywere displayed allows a reflection on the relationship between decoration and its architectural setting.

This dissertation is focused on a comparison of the ancient theme in children's literature during the second half of the 19th century until 1945. The theoretical part focuses on the comparison and evaluation of the religious, political and cultural situation in the Czech lands, whose background was created children's literature with themes from antiquity. The practical part deals with the comparison of the most important works of Czech and Slovak authors, who were devoted to children's literature with themes from antiquity within the range. KEYWORDS: Antiquity , literature , youth , children , comparison, religion , politics, culture

Det första musikinstrumentet som hittats är 35 000 år gammalt. Forskningen har visat att musikens funktion på den tid då skriftspråket fortfarande inte fanns, bör ha haft andra funktioner än vad musiken har idag. Samtidigt finns många likheter. Dessa kunskaper berikar vår förståelse för vår samtid. Dock visar denna studie att hälften av de musiklärare på högstadiet som deltagit, svarat att de inte nämner forntidens musik eller musikinstrument alls, eller bara i förbifarten. Orsaken till det skulle vara tidsbrist och egen brist på kunskap i ämnet. Läroplanen hjälper inte läraren att prioritera musikens ursprung och utveckling. / The first musical instrument found is 35 000 years old. Research has shown that music function at the time when the written language still not existed, should have had other functions than the music of today. While there are many similarities. This knowledge enriches our understanding of our times. However, this study shows that half of the music teachers in high school who participated, responded that they don´t mention the ancient music or musical instruments at all, or only in passing. The reason for this would be lack of time and their own lack of knowledge on the subject. The curriculum doesn´t help the teacher to give priority to the music's origin and evolution.