The Fasces A History of Ancient Romes most dangerous politicical symbol 1st Edition T. Corey Brennan

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• ISBN 10:0197644880
• ISBN 13: 9780197644881
• Author:T. Corey Brennan

In ancient Rome, the fasces were a bundle of wooden rods bound with a leather cord, in which an axe was placed–in essence, a mobile kit for corporal or capital punishment. Attendants typically carried fasces before Rome’s higher officials, to induce feelings of respect and fear for the relevant authority. This highly performative Roman institution had a lifespan of almost two millennia, and made a deep impression on subsequent eras, from the Byzantine period to the present. Starting in the Renaissance, we find revivals and reinterpretations of the ancient fasces, accelerating especially after 1789, the first year of the United States’ Constitution and the opening volley of the French Revolution. But it was Benito Mussolini, who, beginning in 1919, propagated the fasces on an unprecedented scale. Oddly, today the emblem has grown largely unfamiliar, which in turn has offered an opening to contemporary extremist groups.

Table contents:

1. Introduction to the Roman Fasces
2. Origins of the Fasces
3. Images of the Roman Fasces
4. Roman Fasces in Action
5. The Roman Fasces: Limits and Discontinuities
6. Carrying the Fasces
7. Roman Fasces in the Medieval and Renaissance Eras
8. Early Modern and Neoclassical Fasces
9. Popular and Revolutionary Fasces
10. American Fasces
11. Constructing Fasces in Mussolini’s Italy
12. Eradication of Fasces and Epilogue

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