Cet article vise à montrer comment les érudits antiquaires du milieu du xvie siècle ont renouvelé la compréhension du terme de comices tributes. L’étude a particulièrement pour objet deux visions différentes de la constitution « démocratique » romaine, exposées par Nicolas de Grouchy (1510-1572) et Carlo Sigonio (1522-1584). L’une est fondée sur l’...
Les discours populaires sur le corps des Princes au ier siècle ap. J.-C. sont souvent dénigrés par différents moyens dans les sources littéraires qui les transmettent : à en croire les historiens et biographes impériaux, ils ne traduisent que l’attachement du peuple à l’inanité de l’apparence physique et mettent en évidence la dépolitisation des fo...
The objective of this article is to analyze the different mechanisms that sought to order and control the population considered "wild" in the province of Antioquia, the plebs. The immorality of the people was the center of the discourse of governors and elite whose actions and involvement were shown, among other factors, in the criminal trials of t...
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Enrique Dussel is the Latin American philosopher who has dared to think political power as potentia, as an indeterminate power, which is born of the will to life and determines the potestas from its vital demand. This fact stems from his criticism of the fetishized power postulated by modernity and the reading of the voluntarist theses of Schopenha...
The article examines the tensions faced by Creole and European inhabitants in Eighteenth Century Quito through the case of the death of Jean de Sénierges, surgeon in the city of Cuenca, during the Geodesic expedition of the region. In-depth analysis of the stories woven around the death of the doctor of the expedition shows the progressive consolid...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the role of the Roman Urban Plebs and the provincial groups, in the Severan Age, in the Herodian's book: History of Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius. / O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as características e formas de atuação da plebe urbana de Roma e dos grupos provinciais, no período dos Severos, a partir...
