Michel Christol

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Michel Christol (25 October 1942, Castelnau-de-Guers) is a French historian, specialist of ancient Rome, and particularly epigraphy.

Castelnau-de-Guers Commune in Occitanie, France

Castelnau-de-Guers is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France. It is the birthplace of historian Michel Christol.

Ancient Rome History of Rome from the 8th-century BC to the 5th-century

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire. The civilization began as an Italic settlement in the Italian Peninsula, conventionally founded in 753 BC, that grew into the city of Rome and which subsequently gave its name to the empire over which it ruled and to the widespread civilisation the empire developed. The Roman Empire expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world, though still ruled from the city, with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants and covering 5.0 million square kilometres at its height in AD 117.

Epigraphy Study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing

Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers. Specifically excluded from epigraphy are the historical significance of an epigraph as a document and the artistic value of a literary composition.

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Biography

Born in Herault, Michel Christol attended high school in Béziers then his university studies in Montpellier. [1] A student of Hans-Georg Pflaum, [1] [2] Michel Christol devoted his thesis to the crisis of the Roman Empire under Valerian and Gallienus under the direction of William Seston then Charles Pietri, and defended it under the presidency of André Chastagnol. He became professor at the University of Paris-I in 1983, a position he held until his retirement in 2008. [3]

Béziers Subprefecture and commune in Occitanie, France

Béziers is a town and commune in the Occitanie region of Southern France; it is a subprefecture of the Hérault department. In 2014, it had a population of 75,701.

Hans-Georg Pflaum was a German born French historian.

Roman Empire Period of Imperial Rome following the Roman Republic (27 BC–476 AD)

The Roman Empire was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization. Ruled by emperors, it had large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. From the constitutional reforms of Augustus to the military anarchy of the third century, the Empire was a principate ruled from the city of Rome. The Roman Empire was then ruled by multiple emperors and divided in a Western Roman Empire, based in Milan and later Ravenna, and an Eastern Roman Empire, based in Nicomedia and later Constantinople. Rome remained the nominal capital of both parts until 476 AD, when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus after capturing Ravenna and the Roman Senate sent the imperial regalia to Constantinople. The fall of the Western Roman Empire to barbarian kings, along with the hellenization of the Eastern Roman Empire into the Byzantine Empire, is conventionally used to mark the end of Ancient Rome and the beginning of the Middle Ages.

In addition to his teaching duties, Michel Christol was director of the Publications de la Sorbonne from 1989 until 2000, as well as president of Gallia (journal)  (fr ). [1]

Author of textbooks, including one co-written with Daniel Nony, constantly re-edited since its first publication in 1974, Michel Christol is an expert on Roman political history and the province of Gallia Narbonensis. He is known for his analyzes of epigraphic sources, particularly in terms of onomastics and prosopography. [2]

Gallia Narbonensis Roman province

Gallia Narbonensis was a Roman province located in what is now Languedoc and Provence, in southern France. It was also known as Provincia Nostra, from its having been the first Roman province north of the Alps, and as Gallia Transalpina, distinguishing it from Cisalpine Gaul in northern Italy. It became a Roman province in the late 2nd century BC. Its boundaries were roughly defined by the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Cévennes and Alps to the north and west. The western region of Gallia Narbonensis was known as Septimania.

Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names.

In historical studies, prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a historical group, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable, by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line analysis. Prosopographical research has the goal of learning about patterns of relationships and activities through the study of collective biography; it collects and analyses statistically relevant quantities of biographical data about a well-defined group of individuals. This makes it a valuable technique for studying many pre-modern societies.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 According to Maria Luisa Bonsangue and Christine Hoët-van Cauwenberghe, « Avant-propos » in Michel Christol, Une histoire provinciale. La Gaule narbonnaise de la fin du IIe siècle av. J.-C. au IIIe siècle ap. J.-C., Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010, p. 5-7. Read online
  2. 1 2 According to the recension of Michel Christol's book Une histoire provinciale, La Gaule narbonnaise de la fin du IIe siècle av. J.-C. au IIIe siècle ap. J.-C., by Jacques Gascou in Revue archéologique , 2/2011 (n° 52), Read online.
  3. ↑ According to his resume

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