This article is about the culture of Ancient Rome. For the alternate history fiction by Sophia McDougall, see Romanitas (novel).
Romanitas is the collection of political and cultural concepts and practices by which the Romans defined themselves. It is a Latin word, first coined in the third century AD, meaning "Roman-ness" and has been used by modern historians as shorthand to refer to Roman identity and self-image.
Romanitas is the collection of political and cultural concepts and practices by which the Romans defined themselves. It is a Latin word, first coined...
generations, a new unifying feeling began to emerge within Roman territory, the Romanitas or "Roman way of life", the once tribal feeling that had divided Europe...
Institutions. Elibron Classics. ISBN 978-0-5439-2749-1. Adams, J. N. (2003). "'Romanitas' and the Latin Language". Classical Quarterly. 53 (1): 184–205. doi:10...
was the pseudonym of the French journalist André Géraud (1882–1974). In Romanitas, a fictional alternate history novel by Sophia McDougall, Pertinax's reign...
survived to contemporary times. She studied English at Oxford University. Romanitas (2005), Orion Books – ISBN 0-7528-6078-X Rome Burning (2007), Orion Books...
in provincial capitals and major colonies, as an essential aspect of Romanitas. There was no standard size; the largest could accommodate 40,000–60,000...
that allowed citizens, particularly statesmen, to embody the concept of romanitas, which denotes what it meant to be Roman and how Romans regarded themselves...
debut novel, Romanitas, set in a world where the Roman Empire has survived to contemporary times. Three years after the events of Romanitas, the Roman Empire...
city. Public baths became common throughout the empire as a symbol of "Romanitas" or a way to define themselves as Roman. They were some of the most common...
their extremes during the Third Reich. Volksgemeinschaft Britishness Romanitas Russian world Hindutva Verheyen 1999, pp. 16. Denotations of "Deutschtum"...
and Italy during the Renaissance and promotes the cultural identity of Romanitas ("Roman-ness"). Italian Fascism historically sought to forge a strong...
Policies in the Roman Republic and Empire," pp. 554, 556. J.N. Adams, "Romanitas and the Latin Language," Classical Quarterly 53.1 (2003), pp. 185–186...
devotio of a voluntary oath, a slave might achieve the quality of a Roman (Romanitas), become the embodiment of true virtus (manliness, or manly virtue), and...
some ways "reinvogorated" by these new Gothic warriors as "guardians of Romanitas" who, along with their Italo-Roman neighbors created a new "Gothic aegis"...
and Italy during the Renaissance and promotes the cultural identity of Romanitas (Roman-ness). Italian fascism historically sought to forge a strong Italian...
settlement within the empire and at its borders broadened the context of Romanitas. Rome's citizen-soldiers set up altars to multiple deities, including...
(cultured leisure) claimed as a right by the elite. Rank, reputation and Romanitas were paramount, even in death, so almost invariably, a male citizen's...
was considered as the first Lombard king to have adopted some level of Romanitas (Roman-ness) and introduced policies that led to drastic changes, particularly...
Constantinople where he spent formative years "catching up on all the Romanitas" it had taken generations of Visigothic Balthi to acquire. Theodoric was...
suzerainty), that Augustus tried to create in Germania to expand the romanitas and the Empire would be the ones that invaded Rome in the fourth and fifth...
to about AD 409. The empire disintegrated gradually, and elements of Romanitas lingered on for perhaps a century. In AD 47, Somerset was invaded from...
profesionist", in Destine Literare, Vol. 5, Issue 4, August 2010, pp. 3–6. Romanița Constantinescu, Pași pe graniță. Studii despre imaginarul românesc al frontierei...
Several emperors tried to compel its use as the public dress of true Romanitas but none were particularly successful. The aristocracy clung to it as...
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