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The reign of Emperor Vespasian began after his military victory in the civil war of 68-69 A.D., he claimed the imperial throne without the majority of the senatorial elite's support, and needed to legitimize his right to rule in order to secure his position. Political propaganda promoted his military victories, advocated his humble origins, popularized that he had brought peace to Rome, and earned him favorable accounts in the writings of the historians he funded. Sculptural propaganda promoted Vespasian's military victories, expressed his noble virtues, depicted how he began the Flavian legacy, how he distanced himself from Emperor Nero, demonstrated the efforts the Flavians had made for their people, and endorsed the peace he had brought to Rome. Through these efforts, Vespasian legitimized his sovereignty through a political and sculptural propaganda campaign to win the approval of the Roman Senate and people.

Für eine ungewöhnliche Serie Denare Vespasians aus dem Jahr 77–78 n. Chr. bemühte man sich gezielt darum, militärische Sieghaftigkeit und landwirtschaftliche Motive zusammenzubringen. Während andere Erklärungen der historisch einzigartigen Typen unbefriedigend bleiben, gibt es einige Indizien dafür, dass die bäuerliche Motivserie als Anspielung auf den Namen des Gnaeus Iulius Agricola (= »der Landwirt«) entworfen wurde, der gerade in diesem Zeitrahmen seinen Feldzug in Britannien begann. Dabei lässt sich zeigen, dass die Anspielung auf Agricola nicht nur möglich, sondern auch politisch sinnvoll war – und wir an dieser Stelle ein Schlupfloch im strengen Monopol des Kaisers auf die Münzbilder in Betracht ziehen sollten. ; A unique series of denarii from 77–78 B.C. shows how the mint authorities made a conscious effort to combine military victory and agricultural imagery. While various other interpretations remain unsatisfactory, there are indications that the series, referring to three major parts of Roman agriculture, could have been thought-out as a play on the name of Gnaeus Iulius Agricola (= »the farmer«), who began his major campaign in Britain in the very same year. This article aims to show how the reference to Agricola on Vespasian's coins was not only possible but also politically convenient – even if this forces us to question the emperor's strict monopoly on coin imagery.

The article focuses on the linguistic properties of Old English somatic vocabulary represented by the specific lexis and idiomatic expressions collected from The Vespasian Psalter, an 8 th century Anglo-Saxon glossed manuscript. The research submits to scrutiny 37 substantive words with corporeal semantics, which are grouped according to the conventional procedure. In the text of the Vespasian Psalter 750 contexts with lexical somatisms are thoroughly analyzed to calculate the frequency of occurrence of each unit and detect the corporeal vocabulary which enjoys the highest frequency and therefore may prove to be phraseologically productive. Proceeding from the analysis of a number of contexts with the noun toð (tooth), the study is made of the capacity of lexical somatisms to build regular idiomatic complexes with the contextual ambience. The emphasis is laid on the fact that the main signatures of idiomatization are regular speech incidence of the somatic component combined with certain words and a constant image underpinning the semantic structure of the hereby formed idiomatic word-combination. To verify the phraseological status of the word-combinations, contexts are considered in comparison with the corresponding contexts in other Old English manuscripts. The research can be of interest to specialists in a number of linguistic departments: lexicology, phraseology, linguoculturology and history of English.

von Wilhelm Weber ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- A.gr.b. 2000 u

This study focuses on the functional use of famous characters from the Welsh literary and historical contexts, like King Arthur and King Maelgwn of Gwynedd, in the Welsh Saints' Lives found in the Vespasian Legendary, the most significant Welsh legendary extant, dated to ca. 1200. It compares the different types of miracles employed in the episodes in which saints and secular characters are confronted, analysing their structures and the way how miracles contributed to shape not only the figure of the saints but also that of the secular characters. By analysing the change of focus from punitive miracles replicating Old Testament models to miracles either pleading for conversion and hospitality or to miracles connected to relic and tomb veneration, this study advocates that there was a conscious religious, political attempt on the part of the Welsh hagiographers to actualise or modernise Welsh religious practices and put them in line with contemporary Anglo-Norman practices, especially those practiced in English Benedictine houses. ; Das Vespasian Legendar, um ca. 1200 in Südwales entstanden, enthält vierzehn Viten von süd-walisischen Heiligen, die viel über die literarische, politische und religiöse Stellung dieser Sammlung im Kontext ihrer Entstehung aussagen. Unter diesen vierzehn Viten befindet sich die bekannteste Vita Wales, die Vita des Heiligen Cadog des Lifris von Llancarfan zugeschriebenen. Sie war die Basis für meine Dissertation. Ausgehend von den so genannten "Begegnungsszenen" zwischen einem Heiligen und einem weltlichen Herrscher bzw. anderen weltlichen Figuren, habe ich die Rolle der beiden letztgenannten in den Heiligenviten untersucht. Die Ähnlichkeit der Behandlung der weltlichen Herrscher in den Viten und die Beobachtung, dass sie oft die gleiche funktionelle Rolle eines Gegners des Heiligen spielen, führte mich zu einer ersten Analyse der internen Struktur der Begegnungsszenen zwischen den Heiligen und den Herrschern. Meine Analyse diente dazu, allgemeine strukturelle Tendenzen in walisischen Heiligenbiographien zu herauszuarbeiten und sie historisch zu kontextualisieren.