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The economic world of the populus Romanus (2020)
Journal Article
Russell, A. (2020). The economic world of the populus Romanus. Revue d'histoire du droit international, 22(4), 536-564. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718050-12340134

Rome’s transformation from city-state to territorial empire involved a massive increase in wealth; it also both created and responded to fundamental political changes, in a moment often positioned as the creation myth of republicanism. James Tan has... Read More about The economic world of the populus Romanus.

Why did Clodius shut the shops? The rhetoric of mobilizing a crowd in the Late Republic (2016)
Journal Article
Russell, A. (2016). Why did Clodius shut the shops? The rhetoric of mobilizing a crowd in the Late Republic. Historia, 65(2), 186-210

When Publius Clodius ordered Rome’s tabernae to be shut for one of his meetings in 58, he was not only trying to gather a crowd by forcing tabernarii onto the street. Shutting the shops was a symbolic move alluding to the archaic iustitium and to the... Read More about Why did Clodius shut the shops? The rhetoric of mobilizing a crowd in the Late Republic.

Memory and Movement in the Roman Fora from Antiquity to Metro C (2014)
Journal Article
Russell, A. (2014). Memory and Movement in the Roman Fora from Antiquity to Metro C. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 73(4), 478-506. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.4.478

Movement, particularly repeated or ritualized movement, can play an important role in the practices of cultural memory. Using Jan Assmann’s concept of cultural and communicative memory to explore the creation and reproduction of cultural memory throu... Read More about Memory and Movement in the Roman Fora from Antiquity to Metro C.