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Index de Res publica. Histoire romaine de la chose publique, Paris, Fayard, 2018

Index nominum et rerum C.Moatti, RES PUBLICA INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM abolitio (voir Amnistie) 169 ... more Index nominum et rerum C.Moatti, RES PUBLICA INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM abolitio (voir Amnistie) 169 ; 229-230 ; 236 ; 373 ; 377-378 abrogation des lois (voir invalidation) absentia rei publicae causa 95-97 ; 352 ; 353 abstraction 202 ; 339 Accius et le rejet de l'idée du châtiment divin 219 accroissement de la cité

INDEX complet du livre Res publica, Histoire romaine de la chose publique, publié àParis, Fayard,... more INDEX complet du livre Res publica, Histoire romaine de la chose publique, publié àParis, Fayard,avril 2018

Ce livre étudie la notion antique de res publica, il explore son incomplétude originelle et ses p... more Ce livre étudie la notion antique de res publica, il explore son incomplétude originelle et ses processus de formalisation sous la République et l'Empire jusqu'au IIIe siècle de notre ère. This book analyzes the ancient notion of res publica, it explores its original incompleteness and its processes of formalization under the Republic and the Empire until the 3rd century CE.

Quand le passé est convoqué c'est souvent pour légitimer, figer ou déformer des moments d'histoir... more Quand le passé est convoqué c'est souvent pour légitimer, figer ou déformer des moments d'histoire, dont l'usage au présent vise à servir une cause. Cet ouvrage collectif tente de saisir la façon dont le passé est parfois réactivé par des sujets qui se le ré-approprient. Moteur d'action et opérateur de pensée, ce passé dynamique, inachevé, subsiste en effet dans les mémoires "souterraines" d'un collectif où, à la fois rêvé et perdu, il attend son actualisation.

Ce livre analyse la notion antique de res publica, son incomplétude originelle et ses processus d... more Ce livre analyse la notion antique de res publica, son incomplétude originelle et ses processus de formalisation; il explore les enjeux conflictuels et les questions qui ont donné à ces deux mots une épaisseur remarquable, au point de les rendre intraduisibles. This book analyzes the ancient notion of res publica, its original incompletness and the processes of its formalisation under the Republic and the Empire until the 3rd c. CE ; it explores the conflictual stakes and questions which have given to these two words a remarkable thickness to the point of making them untranslatable.

Papers by claudia moatti

Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz, 2011

Moatti Claudia. La mémoire perdue. À la recherche des archives oubliées de l’administration romai... more Moatti Claudia. La mémoire perdue. À la recherche des archives oubliées de l’administration romaine. In: Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz, 22, 2011. pp. 123-130

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, May 12, 2023

Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism, 2021

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, 2013

Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée, 1995

Claude Moatti, L'abbé de La Blèterie (1697-1772) : de l'érudition à la politique, p. 121-... more Claude Moatti, L'abbé de La Blèterie (1697-1772) : de l'érudition à la politique, p. 121-143. Janséniste, membre de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, l'abbé de La Blèterie consacre sa vie à l'histoire romaine. Outre une biographie de Julien qui fut un vrai succès, et des traductions commentées de Tacite, ses articles sur les pouvoirs de l'empereur romain parviennent à des conclusions singulièrement novatrices, qui parfois anticipent sur la réflexion de Mommsen. Mais son œuvre est aussi marquée par les polémiques du XVIIIe siècle : la bulle Unigenitus, la querelle des Parlements, et surtout le débat sur les origines de la monarchie française. Sans jamais aborder ces questions de front, La Blèterie prend résolument parti contre le despotisme, pour la liberté religieuse et se fait l'écho des thèses de Boulainvilliers. Il soulève ainsi une question que l'historiographie ne peut négliger, celle des liens entre histoire, érudition et politique.

Classical Antiquity, 2006

This paper isolates movement as a topic for analysis in Roman imperial history. Movement is regar... more This paper isolates movement as a topic for analysis in Roman imperial history. Movement is regarded under three aspects: translation (of texts, practices, ideas), migration (of officials, merchants, students, etc.), and communication (i.e. the movement of written documents). Interrelationships among the three aspects of movement are identified and discussed, as are the shared impact of translation, migration, and communication on issues of cultural and social identity and political negotiation and control. The article argues that movement changes the role of the state as well as relations between individual and states, augments the use of writing in society, transforms identities, and gives impulse to internal and external regulations. The implications of movement are understood as both pragmatic and formal, altering relations to space and time and influencing ways of organizing and thinking. The author surveys current work in the field and identifies potential areas for future res...

Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic, 2020

Revue Historique, 2003

"The principle of mediation was not permitted in the Roman Republic: experts, objects of dis... more "The principle of mediation was not permitted in the Roman Republic: experts, objects of distrust, had a low and unnoticed position. The elite, on its part, had access to large fields of savoir-faire, learned by experience: that of civic memory (institutions, traditions, religion . . . ), and that of law, military experience, or oratory. At the end of the Roman Republic, most of this savoir-faire became sciences and escaped more and more from these elites; they belonged to specialists coming from new social strata and linked to an imperator, and soon to the Emperor. Thus, intellectual transformations, which concerned the transmission of civic memory, reveal the emergence of new political practices and the rise of personal power in Rome. "

Les cahiers de médiologie, 2000

In this classic work, now appearing in English for the first time, Claudia Moatti analyses the in... more In this classic work, now appearing in English for the first time, Claudia Moatti analyses the intellectual transformation that occurred at the end of the Roman Republic in response both to the political crisis and to the city's expansion across the Mediterranean. This was a period of great cultural dynamism and creativity when Roman intellectuals, most notably Cicero and Varro, began to explore all areas of life and knowledge and to apply critical thinking to the reassessment of tradition and the development of a systematic new understanding of the Roman past and present. This movement, linked to the development of writing, challenged old forms of authority and adhesion, belief and behaviour, without destroying tradition; and for this reason this rational trend can be described not as a cultural but as an epistemological revolution whose greatest achievement, Professor Moatti argues, was the development of the system of Roman law.

Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Antiquité, 2000

Index de Res publica. Histoire romaine de la chose publique, Paris, Fayard, 2018

Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz, 2011

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, May 12, 2023

Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism, 2021

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, 2013

Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée, 1995

Classical Antiquity, 2006

Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic, 2020

Revue Historique, 2003

Les cahiers de médiologie, 2000

Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Antiquité, 2000

This is not the first time in history that we speak of a “crisis of migrants” and that as in Euro... more This is not the first time in history that we speak of a “crisis of migrants” and that as in Europe, Turkey, Malaysia, the US, Kenya and Thailand, that is to say all around the world, we’re trying to expel or return them to their countries of origin, or to ship them to other countries. In the 19th century, between 1832 and 1851, France, who generously hosted political exiles, began to speak of a “refugee problem” and in 1852, it ended the long French tradition of hospitality by closing borders, and deporting immigrants to the United States, Britain, Belgium, and Switzerland.

While the de republica looks like a Greek political treatise, in the Somnium Scipionis, Cicero of... more While the de republica looks like a Greek political treatise, in the Somnium Scipionis, Cicero offers a pro domo defence in favor of the so called senatus consultum ultimum. More precisely, the idea of the conservation of the state (conservare civitatem, patriam, rempublicam) is introduced in the context of a civil war or a sedition, as the image of the citizen semper armatus, ready to fight against the seditious, confirms it. To the issue of the continuity and the identity of the city or of the people, which Aristotle, the Stoics or the Roman jurists also addressed and to which they gave philosophical, political or legal responses, Cicero proposes a non « political » response, which in fact corresponds to the ideological conception of the res publica elaborated by the optimates.

Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée

Archéologie des migrations

Annales (English ed.)

David Armitage and Jo Guldi’s History Manifesto has sparked an important debate in the United Sta... more David Armitage and Jo Guldi’s History Manifesto has sparked an important debate in the United States. This article criticizes three specific aspects of their work. First, it takes issue with their description of a “moral crisis” of history, which they postulate without any discussion of serious epistemological and political issues. Second, it calls into question their enthusiasm for technological solutions, an ideological stance highlighted by their call for a return to long-term history and large-scale syntheses relying on the crunching of vast quantities of digitized data. Finally, it interrogates their conception of the utility of history, a notion that reveals serious confusion between research, teaching, and popularization and supports their unquestioning acceptance of the direction taken by institutions of higher learning. Although the scientism and positivism expressed in their manifesto illuminate their lack of attention to, and perhaps simply awareness of, the slow construc...

Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales (French Edition), 2015

Résumé The History Manifesto de David Armitage et Jo Guldi suscite un vaste débat aux États-Unis.... more Résumé The History Manifesto de David Armitage et Jo Guldi suscite un vaste débat aux États-Unis. Nous le critiquons sous trois aspects : leur postulat d’une « crise morale » de l’histoire – qui ne repose sur aucune analyse des attentes de notre époque en termes de savoir et de quête de sens ; leur idéologie technologique, qui sous-tend la proposition de revenir à la longue durée et aux grandes synthèses grâce à la quantité de sources mises à la disposition des chercheurs par la numérisation ; leur conception de l’utilité de l’histoire qui traduit une confusion problématique entre la vulgarisation, l’enseignement et la recherche et une soumission aux directives institutionnelles. Marqué par un retour à un positivisme scientiste, ce manifeste qui fait fi de la transmission lente des savoirs accumulés, témoigne en fait d’une régression philosophique et d’une disparition de la pensée critique. On propose par dérision d’appeler e-storique et e-story la réduction a priori de toute histor...