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Decentralizing Delphi: Predictive Oracles, Local Knowledge and Social Memory

Delphi did not play a crucial part in the creation and circulation of the predictive oracles. After recalling the importance that the modern narrative of ancient Greek history accords to the idea of Delphi, the relationship between oracular texts, events and historical narrative tradition is discussed, focusing on the question of whether the oracles are pertinent to the event or to the narration of the event. There are reasons to assume that the Delphic predictive responses were integral cons...

“Something with which we still desire to live”. Forms of resistance and royal power in the Regnum italicum between the 10th and 11th centuries

This essay aims to contribute to the reopening of the debate on the emergence of new forms of political and social resistance as a historical turning point that occurred roughly between 950 and 1030. It begins by recalling the closing pages of Bloch’s Société féodale, devoted to the notion of a ‘right of resistance’, and reconstructs its historiographical background. In light of the renewed framework of feudalism studies following the publication of Susan Reynolds’ Feud and Vassals, the essa...

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Sharing Beyond the Polis: Citizenship and Borders in Ancient Federal Greece

Through the analysis of seven case studies, this article shows how specific forms of supra-poleic citizenship could serve as a tool to project influence and strengthen ties in distant regions and in some cases to effectively dematerialize traditional borders. In light of this, this article proposes not to definitively give up the view of koina as continuous territorial units nor to systematically interpret suprapoleic citizenship treaties as a form of expansion of control. It rather suggests ...

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