Brent D. Shaw - Classics Department, Princeton University
| 060901 | State Intervention and Holy Violence Timgad / Paleostrovsk / Waco |
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Abstract - The investigation attempts to analyze the role of state violence in the particular circumstance of a religious community that is put under siege by state military forces. It does this by comparing three type cases: two pre-modern instances, those of Timgad in early fifth-century north Africa and of dissident monasteries and churches in mid-seventeenth-century Muscovy; and the modern-day siege at Waco, Texas. |
| This paper replaces version 1.2 (020901) originally posted in February 2009. | |
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| 020901 | State Intervention and Holy Violence Timgad / Paleostrovsk / Waco |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
| This paper has been revised. See 060901 entry. | |
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| 040801 | Rome's Mediterranean World System and Its Transformation |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
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Abstract - An analysis of the recent large-scale interpretation of the great transition from the ancient world of the Roman Empire to the worlds of its successor states, economies, and societies offered by Chris Wickham in his ‘Framing the Early Middle Ages.’ |
| This paper replaces version 1 (010801) originally posted in January 2008. | |
| A revised version of the paper with the title "After Rome" has now been published in The New Left Review vol. 52 (May-June 008), pp. 89-114. | |
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| 010802 | State Intervention and Holy Violence: Timgad / Paleostrovsk / Waco |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
| A revised version of this paper is forthcoming Summer 2008. | |
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| 010801 | Rome's Mediterranean World System and Its Transformation |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
| This paper has been revised. See 040801 entry. | |
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| 090705 | Cult and Belief in Punic and Roman Africa |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
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Abstract: This is a second attempt at a synthesis of the main problems for the forthcoming Cambridge History of Ancient Religions. The problems are complex and still threaten to overwhelm. This version remains a cri de coeur: any helpful comments and criticisms are encouraged. |
| This paper replaces version 1 (010701) originally posted in January 2007. | |
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| 020702 | Towards Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics |
| Josiah Ober, Stanford University | |
| Walter Scheidel, Stanford University | |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
| Donna Sanclemente, Princeton University | |
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Abstract - An investigation of the present impact and future prospects of open access electronic publication of scholarly research on working papers sites, based on the authors’ collective experience with developing and maintaining a WP site for Classics and Classical Archaeology. |
| This paper has now been published in Hesperia vol. 76 (2007), pp. 229-242. | |
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| 010701 | Cult and Belief in Punic and Roman Africa |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
| Revised September 2007. See entry 090705. | |
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| 070601 | A Prehistory of Hatred |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
| Abstract - A critical reconsideration of a recent foray into the vexatious problem of the origins of race and racism. | |
| This has been published in Journal of World History vol. 16 (2005), pp. 227-32. | |
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| 020603 | Bad Boys: Circumcellions and Fictive Violence |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
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Abstract - The circumcellions were roving bands of violent men and women found in late Roman Africa. The problem is that far more of them have been produced by literary fictions, ancient and modern, than once existed. The fictions have their own intriguing history, but they are otherwise useless for those who are interested in the banality of what actually happened. |
| This paper has been published in H. A. Drake et al. eds., Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006, pp. 179-96. | |
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| 010602 | Sabinus the Muleteer |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
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Abstract - A brief piece about possible sources and historical background of a bit of ‘Vergilian’ poetry. If you like mules and Vergil, then this one is for you. |
| This is now published in Classical Quarterly vol. 57 (2007), pp. 132-38. | |
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| 120518 | Map Resources for Roman North Africa |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
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Abstract - This is the early draft of a collation of the map resources that are available for the study of Roman North Africa. It is hoped that, even in this early stage of presentation, it will be of some use to those who are seeking cartographic resources for research on the region. |
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| 120515 | Seasonal Mortality in Imperial Rome and the Mediterranean: Three Problem Cases |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
| No longer available as a working paper. This is now published as Chapter 4 [in] Glenn R. Storey ed., Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches (Tuscaloosa, The University of Alabama Press, 2006), pp. 86-109. | |
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| 110516 | Spartacus Before Marx |
| Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University | |
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Abstract - The story of the pre-Marxian ideology of Spartacus is not without its own peculiar interests. It is a strange narrative prompted both by the birth of a modern analytical, and political, interest in slavery, and in parallel debates over the meaning of liberty and servitude. |
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