Sidoine Apollinaire et la fin du Sénat de Rome

Chastagnol, André

doi:10.3406/bsnaf.1980.8548

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“…8 Whatever one thinks of this, the fact is that 'western aristocracies long outlived the Imperial government', seeking their own accommodation with Barbarian rulers (Wormald 1976, 224;Werner 1984, 302;Chastagnol 1966, 48-56). If the disintegration of the Western empire sounded the death-knell of an integrated imperial aristocracy of the kind that had emerged under Constantine, transforming the senate into a purely Italian body and choking off the sources of renewal of a living senatorial tradition (Chastagnol 1978), it also reflected the dispersive tendencies of aristocratic networks that had never been more than loosely integrated into a shifting imperial centre. The rapid consolidation of the Western upper classes in the fourth century was followed by their gradual but sustained erosion in the fifth and sixth, as a unified state disintegrated under the pressure of barbarian migrations, settlement and conquest.…”

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Aristocracies, peasantries and the framing of the early Middle Ages

Banaji¹

2015

Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity

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This paper sets out to establish a general contrast between the traditions of agrarian bondage that characterized the West in the wake of the disintegration of the Roman empire and the peculiar vulnerability of the peasantry in the Byzantine, Sasanian and Islamic Near East. Within this general contrast between peasantries, I explore the differences between aristocracies in the late antique and post-Roman worlds, date the beginnings of the medieval expansion to the seventh century, and advance a critique of the way Chris Wickham handles the relations of production of the early middle ages. I argue that there was both more coercion and more complexity in the use of labour than Wickham's characterization of a self-managing peasantry suggests. The paper concludes by looking at some of the peculiarities of agrarian domination in the Near East.

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Aristocracies, peasantries and the framing of the early Middle Ages

Banaji¹

2015

Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity

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“…Whatever one thinks of this, the fact is that ‘western aristocracies long outlived the Imperial government’, seeking their own accommodation with Barbarian rulers (Wormald 1976, 224; Werner 1984, 302; Chastagnol 1966, 48–56). If the disintegration of the Western empire sounded the death‐knell of an integrated imperial aristocracy of the kind that had emerged under Constantine, transforming the senate into a purely Italian body and choking off the sources of renewal of a living senatorial tradition (Chastagnol 1978), it also reflected the dispersive tendencies of aristocratic networks that had never been more than loosely integrated into a shifting imperial centre. The rapid consolidation of the Western upper classes in the fourth century was followed by their gradual but sustained erosion in the fifth and sixth, as a unified state disintegrated under the pressure of barbarian migrations, settlement and conquest.…”

Section: Aristocraciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aristocracies, Peasantries and the Framing of the Early Middle Ages

Banaji

2008

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This paper sets out to establish a general contrast between the traditions of agrarian bondage that characterized the West in the wake of the disintegration of the Roman empire and the peculiar vulnerability of the peasantry in the Byzantine, Sasanian and Islamic Near East. Within this general contrast between peasantries, I explore the differences between aristocracies in the late antique and post‐Roman worlds, date the beginnings of the medieval expansion to the seventh century, and advance a critique of the way Chris Wickham handles the relations of production of the early middle ages. I argue that there was both more coercion and more complexity in the use of labour than Wickham's characterization of a self‐managing peasantry suggests. The paper concludes by looking at some of the peculiarities of agrarian domination in the Near East.

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Sidoine Apollinaire et la fin du Sénat de Rome

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Aristocracies, peasantries and the framing of the early Middle Ages

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