The decline and fall of the Roman empire and its place in contemporary American political discourse, 2003-present
Presentation / Conference
Dodd, L. (2008, May)
The decline and fall of the Roman empire and its place in contemporary American political discourse, 2003-present. Paper presented at Classical Empires in Contemporary Culture
This paper examines the ways in which the trope of Roman declinism was used by media and political commentators during the period 2003-2008. It considers how, during the Iraq ...
‘Holier than thou’: aristocracy, asceticism and the politics of piety in post-Roman Gaul
Presentation / Conference
Dodd, L. (2006, November)
‘Holier than thou’: aristocracy, asceticism and the politics of piety in post-Roman Gaul. Presented at University of Glasgow Classics Research Seminar Series
This paper examines the ways in which late Roman Christian aristocrats used ostentatious displays of asceticism to achieve specific political ends within their communities. It...
Rejecting romanitas? Sidonius, Syagrius and the politics of language
Presentation / Conference
Dodd, L. (2006, July)
Rejecting romanitas? Sidonius, Syagrius and the politics of language. Paper presented at 'Without Let or Hindrance’: Inclusion and its Subversion from the Medieval to the Modern
This paper examines an event described in Letter 5.5 of Sidonius Apollinaris which describes how the Roman aristocrat and lawyer, Syagrius, had broken with tradition and begu...
Thomas Craig’s Aetiology of Law and Society: Literary Dependence and Independence in theJus Feudale
Journal Article
Dodd, L. (2016)
Thomas Craig’s Aetiology of Law and Society: Literary Dependence and Independence in theJus Feudale. Journal of Legal History, 37(2), 121-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440365.2016.1191587
While Craig's relationship to, and emergence from, the French legal humanist tradition has always been widely recognized, this paper constitutes a deeper analysis of the speci...
Kinship, conflict and unity among Roman elites in post-Roman Gaul: The contrasting experiences of Caesarius and Avitus
Book Chapter
Dodd, L. (2016)
Kinship, conflict and unity among Roman elites in post-Roman Gaul: The contrasting experiences of Caesarius and Avitus. In Official power and local elites in the Roman provinces, 168-187. Taylor & Francis
The 5th century saw the end of Roman imperial power in the West. Academic debate continues about whether the Empire collapsed or transformed and survived in the form of the ba...