Descripción del proyecto
Instituciones locales y élites políticas en las ciudades romanas
El equipo del proyecto PECUNIA, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, investigará los recursos materiales y financieros proporcionados a diversos grupos sociales e individuos por su participación en la vida política de sus ciudades durante el Imperio romano (entre 70 a. C. y 284 d. C.). La labor en el proyecto PECUNIA desplazará la atención de los muy estudiados donativos de las élites a sus comunidades hacia las ventajas asociadas a su cargo público. La metodología del proyecto incluye una encuesta en todo el imperio, la extracción de datos desatendidos de una amplia gama de fuentes escritas y su análisis utilizando conceptos derivados de las ciencias políticas y la sociología de las élites. El estudio explora cómo los cargos en las instituciones locales estaban estructuralmente vinculados a las oportunidades privadas y cómo se regulaba y percibía este fenómeno en el centro romano y en las ciudades.
Objetivo
Examining the hundreds of cities which formed the basis of the Roman Empire (70 BC-AD 284), PECUNIA interrogates the material and pecuniary interests made available to local elites by their political activity. It investigates how positions in local institutions were structurally associated with private opportunities and how this phenomenon was conceived and regulated at both levels of the imperial system, i.e. the Roman centre and the cities. In the civic milieu, the flow of gifts and mandatory contributions of the well-off to their communities has been extensively explored by scholarship, while the fields of re-sources made available to them by the government of the cities have remained unaddressed. This mainly results from the focus on contributions of members of the political elites which is found in the inscriptions, engraved under the direction of the governing bodies of the cities, in praise of their actions. Based on the observation that sources also account for legal and illegal gains, PECUNIA instead aims at producing a comprehensive analysis of private interest in public affairs, by (1) using an empire-wide inquiry, whereas in institutional and social studies the civic world has so far only been approached regionally, (2) harnessing heterogeneous data from classical sources and also from less sought corpora, (3) using investigative concepts and data modelling stemming from political science and sociological studies of the elites, to elaborate new interpretative paths about the production of stability in local governance in the Roman Empire. By gaining substantial and systematic evidence and devising new questions capable of navigating it, PECUNIA thus illuminates the expectations regarding participation in public life by the various sub-groups in the elites and it frames a new paradigm of local power, considering all stakeholders and their attitudes to the realities of private interests in local functions, from the local people to the Roman administration.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
75006 Paris
Francia