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Acclamatio

In Ancient Roman and Byzantine tradition, acclamatio (Koiné aktologia) was the public expression of approbation or disapprobation, pleasure or displeasure, etc., by loud acclamations. On many

See also#

  • Constantine VII
  • De Ceremoniis

Bibliography#

Aldrete, G.S. (2003) Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Fafinski, M. (2024) ‘A Restless City: Edessa and Urban Actors in the Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus’, Al-Masāq, pp. 1–25. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2331915 . Gregory, T.E. (1979) Vox populi: Popular opinion and violence in the religious controversies of the fifth century A.D. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. Kelly, C. (2009) Ruling the Later Roman Empire. Harvard: Harvard University Press. Magalhães De Oliveira, J.C. (2021) ‘Informal Expressions of Popular Will in Late Roman Africa’, in C. Brélaz and E. Rose (eds) Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, pp. 145–165. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.5.123819 . Roueché, C. (1984) ‘Acclamations in the Later Roman Empire: New Evidence from Aphrodisias’, The Journal of Roman Studies, 74, pp. 181–199. Wiemer, H.-U. (2004) ‘Akklamationen im spätrömischen Reich. Zur Typologie und Funktion eines Kommunikationsrituals’, Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 86, pp. 27–74.

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Genres of Byzantine music