Citizenship, Values and Social Orders. The Assessment System of Census and Ritual Education in Ancient Rome

Paolone, Anselmo Roberto

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“…) are in fact relevant to comparative education studies. There is one group of rituals in particular, based on the stately procession: the imperial adventus, and two older rituals (the amburbium and the lustrum, which have elements in common with the former) whose ties with the education of citizens are evident (Paolone 2014(Paolone , 2016MacCormack 1972MacCormack , 1995. In this paper I will try to explore such educational dimensions of the rituals, both in their original form, (back in the days of the Roman Empire), and especially in what I believe to be one of their surviving forms of today, which I have studied through fieldwork, in a village in central Italy.…”

Section: Rituals As "Informal Education" In the Roman Empirementioning

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“…As I have already shown (Paolone 2014(Paolone , 2016 in Rome the function of creating the common culture needed for citizenship, was carried out by institutions different from what we call today a "school system".…”

Section: Rituals As "Informal Education" In the Roman Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

“…But the three groups could live, thrive and fight (as their neighbor cities learned at their own expense) as one. One of the secrets of such unity and strength was a very effective ritual system, which was educating them to become dedicated and well-organized citizens (Paolone 2014(Paolone , 2016.…”

Section: Ceremonial Pedagogy: a Universal Approach To Educationmentioning

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“…The main part of the ritual consisted of a stately procession, which has elements in common with two older rituals called amburbium and lustrum, two defensive circular processions (Paolone 2014(Paolone , 2016. It has also elements in common with the successive processional -and educational-rituals, involving the relics of saints (Brown 1996: 127-136, MacCormack 1972: it was a sort of historical "bridge" between the former and the latter.…”

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“…In Rome in particular, the censors 7 (magistrates elected every five years) were constantly peering into the life of citizens and their families (the realm of the res privata, which at the time was the closest existing thing to what we call today privacy-very different from it, though) to asses if their dedication to the wellbeing of the res publica (the state) was sufficient. If not, the culprits would be publicly blamed and demoted in Rome's social hierarchy (Paolone 2014(Paolone , 2016.…”

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Empires, Rituals and Ceremonial Pedagogy, Old and New

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In the Roman Empire, the function of creating part of the common culture needed for citizenship was carried out by institutions different from what we call today a "school system". It was the ancient society in its entirety, via its vast ritual apparatus, which provided an equivalent of what we call today "civic education". In the universal Roman Empire all citizens were educated by the means of such "ceremonial pedagogy." It was a form of collective education, based on symbols and actions that could "talk" a universal language to the varied ethnic identities of the citizens. Similarly the Roman Catholic Church (heir to the universality of the Roman Empire) also uses art, architecture, rituals and symbols to educate the universal crowd of the faithful. There is one group of Roman rituals in particular (adventus, amburbium, lustrum), based on the stately procession, whose ties with the education of citizens are evident. The paper will explore such educational dimensions of the rituals, in what it is believed to be one of their surviving forms of today, the Roman Catholic procession of the patron saint, which was studied ethnographically in a village in central Italy. In Castelfiocco, a village noted for its campanilismo (strong sentiment of local membership) a ritual system based on the cult of saints conveys to the population values which are survivors of an older political order in which the modern, comprehensive nation-state had not yet appeared. In this traditional system the dialectic is not between locality and nation-state, but between local membership and the universality of the Church. The understanding of some aspects of such traditional dialectic, and especially the understanding of the way in which it is conveyed to the population by rituals used as ceremonial pedagogy, is of renewed interest in our age of globalisation.

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Section: Rituals As "Informal Education" In the Roman Empirementioning

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Section: Rituals As "Informal Education" In the Roman Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Adventusmentioning

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