Abstract

The objective of this article is to place the study of urban protest and violence in the period from about 300 to about 600 CE in a broader perspective and to subject the investigation of plebeian activism to the basic precepts of analysis of collective action developed by social scientists and historians studying other periods. Its main argument is that, contrary to wide held assumptions in the historiography, what characterized Late Antiquity was not simply the exacerbation of violence or its tighter control, but the crisis of aristocratic hegemony and the expansion of opportunities for popular intervention in city life. What has been perceived as the product fanaticism, irrationality and deprivation of the masses, of the manipulation of bishops and aristocrats or of the failure of the mechanisms of coercion was actually the result of a dramatic social change that, on the one hand, involved a new dynamic of power and, on the other, a shift in the way the people understood their role and power in local communities.

中文翻译：

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上古晚期：人群时代？*

摘要

本文的目的是将研究范围从更广泛的角度研究从公元300到600年左右的城市抗议和暴力，并使对平民主义的调查服从于社会科学家对集体行动进行分析的基本原则。和历史学家研究其他时期。它的主要论点是，与史学中广泛的假设相反，古代晚期的特征不仅是暴力的加剧或严格控制，而且是贵族霸权的危机和城市生活大众干预机会的扩大。被认为是产品狂热，非理性和剥夺群众的东西，