The Historiography of the Participation of Freemen in the Late Republican Serviles Wars

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This article is a historiographical study of how modern historians (from the 19th to the 21st centuries) assessed the participation of free people in the servile wars from the late Roman Republic. Its aim is to reconstruct, analyze and classify the historical research about the topic. It is argued t...

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Autor principal: Piantanida, Fernando Martín
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Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2023
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freemen
servile wars
historiography
participación
libres
guerras serviles
historiografía
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spelling I28-R242-article-124552023-01-18T00:56:52Z The Historiography of the Participation of Freemen in the Late Republican Serviles Wars La historiografía de la participación de libres en las guerras serviles tardorrepublicanas Piantanida, Fernando Martín participation freemen servile wars historiography participación libres guerras serviles historiografía This article is a historiographical study of how modern historians (from the 19th to the 21st centuries) assessed the participation of free people in the servile wars from the late Roman Republic. Its aim is to reconstruct, analyze and classify the historical research about the topic. It is argued that this topic became an important historiographical problem for the modern understanding of ancient revolts during the last century, especially since the 1930s when Soviet historians proposed considering the rebel “programmes”. However, nineteenth-century authors had already pointed the participation of freemen and even, in some cases, emphasized their importance, defining their relationship with the rebel slaves as a “common cause”. Western historiography from the 20th and the 21st centuries has taken different lines of interpretation with regard to this question: from considering it as an important matter, although it does not change the servile definition of the rebellions; to judge the participation of freemen as something absolutely insignificant and, consequently, neglect it; or to rank it above the servile element and ponder them as provincial uprisings against Roman domination. To sum up, a number of criteria will be proposed to classify the historiography on this field of study. El presente artículo es un estudio historiográfico de cómo los historiadores modernos (de los siglos XIX-XXI) han abordado la participación de personas libres en las guerras serviles de la tardía República romana. Su objetivo consiste en reconstruir, analizar y clasificar la investigación histórica consagrada al tema. Se argumenta que este último se constituye en un problema historiográfico relevante para la comprensión moderna de las antiguas revueltas durante el siglo pasado, fundamentalmente a partir de la década de 1930 con los planteos de los historiadores soviéticos sobre los “programas” de los rebeldes. Sin embargo, se muestra que ya los autores decimonónicos habían advertido la participación de libres e incluso, en algunos casos, destacando su importancia y definiendo su relación con los esclavos rebeldes en términos de “causa común”. La historiografía occidental de los siglos XX y XXI ha tomado varios caminos interpretativos con respecto a dicha cuestión: reparar en ella como un asunto importante de las rebeliones si bien no modifica su calificación de serviles; juzgarla absolutamente marginal y, en consecuencia, descuidarla; o jerarquizarla de manera tal de concebir las revueltas principalmente como levantamientos provinciales contra la dominación romana. Finalmente, se proponen algunos criterios para clasificar la historiografía sobre este objeto de estudio.  Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2023-01-03 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/analesHAMM/article/view/12455 10.34096/ahamm.v56.2.12455 Anales de Historia Antigua, Medieval y Moderna; Vol. 56 Núm. 2 (2022) 1853-1555 1514-9927 spa http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/analesHAMM/article/view/12455/11162 Derechos de autor 2023 Anales de Historia Antigua, Medieval y Moderna https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
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Piantanida, Fernando Martín
The Historiography of the Participation of Freemen in the Late Republican Serviles Wars
topic_facet participation
freemen
servile wars
historiography
participación
libres
guerras serviles
historiografía
author Piantanida, Fernando Martín
author_facet Piantanida, Fernando Martín
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title The Historiography of the Participation of Freemen in the Late Republican Serviles Wars
title_short The Historiography of the Participation of Freemen in the Late Republican Serviles Wars
title_full The Historiography of the Participation of Freemen in the Late Republican Serviles Wars
title_fullStr The Historiography of the Participation of Freemen in the Late Republican Serviles Wars
title_full_unstemmed The Historiography of the Participation of Freemen in the Late Republican Serviles Wars
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description This article is a historiographical study of how modern historians (from the 19th to the 21st centuries) assessed the participation of free people in the servile wars from the late Roman Republic. Its aim is to reconstruct, analyze and classify the historical research about the topic. It is argued that this topic became an important historiographical problem for the modern understanding of ancient revolts during the last century, especially since the 1930s when Soviet historians proposed considering the rebel “programmes”. However, nineteenth-century authors had already pointed the participation of freemen and even, in some cases, emphasized their importance, defining their relationship with the rebel slaves as a “common cause”. Western historiography from the 20th and the 21st centuries has taken different lines of interpretation with regard to this question: from considering it as an important matter, although it does not change the servile definition of the rebellions; to judge the participation of freemen as something absolutely insignificant and, consequently, neglect it; or to rank it above the servile element and ponder them as provincial uprisings against Roman domination. To sum up, a number of criteria will be proposed to classify the historiography on this field of study.
publisher Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
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