1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455739203321

Autore

Kelly Christopher <1964->

Titolo

Ruling the later Roman Empire [[electronic resource] /] / Christopher Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-674-03945-9

Descrizione fisica

341 p

Collana

Revealing antiquity ; ; 15

Disciplina

937/.09

Soggetti

Elite (Social sciences) - Rome

Elite (Social sciences) - Byzantine Empire

Electronic books.

Rome Politics and government 284-476

Byzantine Empire Politics and government To 527

Rome Officials and employees

Byzantine Empire Officials and employees

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-325) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: First Thoughts -- Part I . The Bureaucrat’s Tale -- Introduction: John Lydus: A Man and His Book -- 1 All the Prefect’s Men -- 2 The Competition for Spoils -- Part II. Ruler s and Ruled -- Introduction: Passages from the Principate to Late Antiquity -- 3 Standing in Line -- 4 Purchasing Power -- 5 Autocracy and Bureaucracy -- Epilogue: Last Judgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this highly original work, Christopher Kelly paints a remarkable picture of running a superstate. He portrays a complex system of government openly regulated by networks of personal influence and the payment of money. Focusing on the Roman Empire after Constantine's conversion to Christianity, Kelly illuminates a period of increasingly centralized rule through an ever more extensive and intrusive bureaucracy. The book opens with a view of its times through the eyes of a high-ranking official in sixth-century Constantinople, John Lydus. His On the Magistracies of the Roman State, the only memoir of its kind to come down to us, gives an impassioned and



revealing account of his career and the system in which he worked. Kelly draws a wealth of insight from this singular memoir and goes on to trace the operation of power and influence, exposing how these might be successfully deployed or skillfully diverted by those wishing either to avoid government regulation or to subvert it for their own ends. Ruling the Later Roman Empire presents a fascinating procession of officials, emperors, and local power brokers, winners and losers, mapping their experiences, their conflicting loyalties, their successes, and their failures. This important book elegantly recaptures the experience of both rulers and ruled under a sophisticated and highly successful system of government.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459238403321

Titolo

Transforming learning in schools and communities [[electronic resource] ] : the remaking of education for a cosmopolitan society / / edited by Bob Lingard, Jon Nixon and Stewart Ranson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Continuum, c2008

ISBN

1-282-87361-X

9786612873614

1-4411-2593-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LingardBob

NixonJon

RansonStewart

Disciplina

302.43/2

Soggetti

Community and school

Education and globalization

Democracy and education

Cosmopolitanism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Education for a globalized world: policy and pedagogic possibilities /



Bob Lingard, Jon Nixon and Stewart Ranson -- Deparochializing education: re-envisioning education in ASEAN / Aaron Koh -- Deferring dystopia: the sustainable city, urban policy and education markets / Kalervo Gulson -- Place, space and knowledge: children in the village and the city / Pia Christensen -- Public space, participation and expressive arts / Morwenna Griffiths and Hamish Ross -- Education and its cosmopolitan possibilities / Fazal Rizvi -- Relationships of virtue: justice as practice / Jon Nixon -- Capability formation and education / Melanie Walker -- Remaking civic formation: transforming politics and the cosmopolitan school / Terri Seddon -- A school for citizens: civic learning and democratic action in the learning democracy / Gert Biesta -- Re-constituting education governance for cosmopolitan society -- Pedagogic mediations / Stewart Ranson -- Pedagogies of indifference: research, policy and practice / Bob Lingard -- Dialogue, inquiry and the construction of learning communities / Gordon Wells -- The production of space for learning / Nick Boreham -- The social, cultural and linguistic significance of complementary schools / Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge -- Participation, policy and the changing conditions of childhood / Alan Prout -- Schools and urban regeneration: challenges and possibilities / Pat Thomson.

Sommario/riassunto

Many educators have been looking for a fundamentally different approach to engage young people and encourage progress in learning. Supported by recent public policy developments, a transformation is beginning to take place in the practice of many schools. The focus of learning is shifting away from the child as an individual in a classroom detached from the surrounding neighbourhood to a learning community that embraces carers and families as well as young people and teachers. This monograph analyses the organising principles of this cultural transformation and considers how it will shape learning