Simon Corcoran

 

 

Bibliography

Book

The Empire of the Tetrarchs: Imperial Pronouncements and Government AD 284-324 (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1996) [awarded the Henryk Kupiszewski Prize, from the Centro romanistico internazionale Copanello at the University of Catanzaro, as a silver medal prize in the IV Premio romanistico internazionale Gérard Boulvert 1998]

The Empire of the Tetrarchs: Imperial Pronouncements and Government AD 284-324 (Clarendon Press: Oxford; revised edition 2000) [Additional notes and bibliography at pp. 343-56]

 

Articles or Book Chapters

‘Hidden from history: the legislation of Licinius’, in J. Harries and I. Wood (edd.), The Theodosian Code: Studies in the Imperial Law of Late Antiquity (Duckworth: London, 1993) pp. 97-119 [in the volume of papers from the Theodosian Code conference, held at St. Andrews, July 1990]

[with Janet DeLaine] ‘The unit measurement of marble in Diocletian's Prices Edict’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 7 (1994) pp. 263-73

‘The praetorian prefect Modestus and Hero of Alexandria’s Stereometrica’, Latomus 54 (1995) pp. 377-84

‘The sins of the fathers: a neglected constitution of Diocletian on incest’, Journal of Legal History 21.2 (2000) pp. 1-34

‘A fragment of a tetrarchic constitution from Crete’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 133 (2000) pp. 251-5 [re-edition of Inscriptiones Creticae II 16.34]

‘A tetrarchic inscription from Corcyra and the Edictum de Accusationibus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 141 (2002) pp. 221-30 [re-edition of CIL III 578]

‘The donation and will of Vincent of Huesca: Latin text and English translation,’ Antiquité Tardive 11 (2003) pp. 215-21

‘The publication of law in the era of the tetrarchs: Diocletian, Galerius, Gregorius, Hermogenian’, in A. Demandt, A. Goltz, and H. Schlange-Schöningen (eds.), Diokletian und die Tetrarchie: Aspekte einer Zeitenwende (Millennium-Studien 1; De Gruyter: Berlin/New York, 2004) pp. 56-73 [in the volume of papers from the International Diocletian Symposium held at Split, April 2003]

‘Before Constantine’, in N. Lenski(ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge and New York, 2006) pp. 35-58

‘Emperor and citizen in the era of Constantine’, in E. Hartley, J. Hawkes, M. Henig and F. Mee (eds.), Constantine the Great: York’s Roman Emperor (Lund Humphries: London, 2006) pp. 41-51 [in the volume accompanying the homonymous exhibition held at the Yorkshire Museum, March-October 2006, celebrating the 1700th anniversary of Constantine’s accession on 25 July 306]

‘The Tetrarchy: policy and image as reflected in imperial pronouncements’ in D. Boschung and W. Eck (eds.), Die Tetrarchie: Ein neues Regierungssystem und seine mediale Präsentation (Universität zu Köln, Lehr- und Forschungszentrum für die antiken Kulturen des Mittelmeerraumes [ZAKMIRA] Schriften 3; Reichert Verlag: Wiesbaden, 2006) pp. 31-61 [in the volume of papers from the Tetrarchy colloquium held at Cologne, February 2004]

‘Latin legal texts’, in E. Bispham, Th. Harrison and B. Sparkes (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2006) pp. 433-8

‘An introduction to the Projet Volterra’ and ‘Galerius, Maximinus and the titulature of the Third Tetrarchy’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 49 (2006) pp. 215-19 and 231-40 [both in a section containing papers from the Volterra Colloquium held at the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London, March 2004]

‘Two tales, two cities: Antinoopolis and Nottingham’, in J. Drinkwater and R.W.B. Salway (eds.), Wolf Liebeschuetz Reflected: Essays Presented by Colleagues, Friends and Students (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies supplement 91; London, 2007) pp. 193-209 [includes re-edition of PSI XIII 1346, identified as Justinian, Novel 62 = Authenticum 64]

‘Galerius’s jigsaw puzzle: the Caesariani dossier’, Antiquité Tardive 15 (2007) pp. 221-50

‘Diocletian’, in A. Barrett (ed.), Lives of the Caesars (Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA and Oxford, 2008) pp. 228-54

‘The heading of Diocletian's Prices Edict at Stratonicea’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 166 (2008, forthcoming)

‘New subscripts for old rescripts: the Vallicelliana fragments of Justinian Code Book VII’, Zeitschrift der Savigny Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung 126 (2009, forthcoming)

‘Imperial legislation’, in The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, forthcoming)

‘Emperors and Caesariani inside and outside the Code’, in the Proceedings of the XXIX Colloque International de Halma: Code Théodosien 2, Lille, 2005 (forthcoming)

 

Reviews

Review of F. Kolb, Diocletian und die erste Tetrarchie, in Journal of Roman Studies 80 (1990) pp. 241-2

Review of S. Barnish, Cassiodorus: Variae, in Classical Review n.s. 43 (1993) pp. 287-9

Review of F.L. Müller (ed.), Herodian: Geschichte des Kaisertums nach Marc Aurel, in Classical Review n.s. 49 (1999) p. 261

Review of C.E.V Nixon and B.S. Rodgers, In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (1999) 1999.10.13

Review of A. Bruzzone, Flavio Merobaude: Panegirico in versi, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2005) 2005.08.08

Review of R. Rees, Diocletian and the Tetrarchy, in Ancient West and East 6 (2007) pp. 430-2

Review of J. Mühlenbrock, Tetrapylon: zur Geschichte des viertorigen Bogenmonuments in der römischen Architektur, in Ancient West and East (forthcoming)

 

Other

[with John Davies] ‘Publications and articles on the history of the East Midlands 1994’, East Midland Historian 5 (1995) pp. 45-51

[with John Davies] ‘Publications and articles on the history of the East Midlands 1995’, East Midland Historian 6 (1996) pp. 36-43

[with John Davies] ‘East Midland Historian Bibliography for 1996: Publications and articles on the history of the East Midlands’, East Midland Historian 7 (1997) pp. i-xi

Palace of Whitehall’, History Today 48/7 (July 1998) pp. 39-40

[with Brian Campbell] ‘Stemmata’, in A.K. Bowman, Averil Cameron and P. Garnsey (eds.), The Cambridge Ancient History Vol. XII: The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337 (2nd ed.; Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2005) pp. 768-71

‘Chronology’, in E. Hartley, J. Hawkes, M. Henig and F. Mee (eds.), Constantine the Great: York’s Roman Emperor (Lund Humphries: London, 2006) pp. 12-14

‘Divus Diocletianus?’ (Poster at XIII Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae, Oxford, September 2007): http://ciegl.classics.ox.ac.uk/html/webposters/21_Corcoran.pdf  [with abstract in C.V. Crowther and S. Mitchell, (eds.), Acts of the 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Oxford, 2-7 September 2007: Summary Papers (Classics Faculty, Oxford University) p. 83]

 

In Progress

‘Wills in the Visigothic Kingdom’ for Early Medieval Europe

‘Slave status and manumission in the will of Vincent of Huesca’

[with R.B. Salway] ‘Numeration in Roman law texts, 400-600’ for Early Medieval Europe

 

Projected

Translation of Diocletian’s Prices Edict and other epigraphic texts for Translated Texts for Historians series, Liverpool University Press [with Michael Crawford]

Survey paper of neo-Latin material from the Portland Literary Collection at Nottingham University Library.

Paper on Charles Vaughan scandal as revealed in Dennison papers at Nottingham University Library.