Look up saeculum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A saeculum is a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or, equivalently...

Saeculum obscurum (Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈsɛː.ku.lu.m obsˈkuː.rum], "the dark age/century"), also known as the Pornocracy or the Rule of the Harlots,...

unbounded time, related to the concepts of aevum or saeculum Aius Locutius, divine voice that warned the Romans of the imminent Gallic invasion. Alernus or Elernus...

(possessive) plural form of the word saeculum, meaning (in this context) generation, century, or age. Saeculum did come to mean "age, world" in late...

Secular Games to mark a new era (saeculum), became imperially funded to maintain traditional values and a common Roman identity. That the spectacles retained...

Papacy struggled to retain influence in the emerging Holy Roman Empire, and during the saeculum obscurum, the population of Rome fell to as low as 30,000...

and economic climate (mood) exists. They are part of a larger cyclical "saeculum" (a long human life, which usually spans around 85 years, although some...

Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03209-5. Markus, R. A. (1970). Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of St. Augustine. Cambridge: Cambridge...

first millennium, together with Ludi saeculares for Rome's alleged tenth saeculum. Coins from his reign commemorate the celebrations. A coin by a contender...

Latin, the concept of the deity may appear as Aeternitas, Anna Perenna, or Saeculum.: 274  He is typically in the company of an earth or mother goddess such...

Saeculares", in Studies in Roman Literature, Culture and Religion (Brill, 1956), p. 219 et passim; John F. Hall III, "The Saeculum Novum of Augustus and its...

aristocratic family, the Theophylacti. This period was later dubbed the Saeculum obscurum ("dark age"), and sometimes as the "rule by harlots". In practice...

"Das Türkenjahr 1683 und seine historisdie Bedeutung". Saeculum. 28 (1): 87–100. doi:10.7788/saeculum.1977.28.1.87. ISSN 0080-5319. S2CID 170307136. Boyd...

September 249), commonly known as Philip the Arab, was the Emperor of the Roman Empire from 244 to 249. After the death of Gordian III in February 244,...

his pontificate occurred during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum. Stephen was a Roman by birth, the son of Germanic (Goth) Theodemundus/Theudemund...

Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes. Published every year by the Roman Curia, the Annuario...

now instead use the term saeculum obscurum to describe the period when the papacy was under the direct control of the Roman nobility, in particular when...

the Eastern Churches: The Paradox in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church". Saeculum. 16 (1): 15–36. Retrieved 8 June 2024. Klesko, Robert (12 July 2023). "Are...

and understanding). The phrase Dark Age(s) itself derives from the Latin saeculum obscurum, originally applied by Caesar Baronius in 1602 when he referred...

ancient Roman religious celebration, involving sacrifices and theatrical performances, held for three days and nights to mark the end of a saeculum and the...

of the Five Emperors was AD 193, in which five men claimed the title of Roman emperor: Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus, and...

original on 2 October 2008. Tudor Pamfil, Mitologia poporului roman, Editura Saeculum, 2007 Maria Filipoiu, Traditii crestine si ritualuri populare romanesti...

defined for the history of Earth. Comparable terms are epoch, age, period, saeculum, aeon (Greek aion) and Sanskrit yuga. The word has been in use in English...

communicate military and religious messages, with other coins giving messages of saeculum aureum and virtues. During Caracalla's sole reign, from 212 to 217, a significant...

sarmatische Hintergrund der germanischen Volkerwanderung". Saeculum. 2: 340–392. doi:10.7788/saeculum.1951.2.jg.340. S2CID 170085131. Norwich, John Julius (1989)...

patrician Romulus. The establishment of official Roman cult to Magna Mater coincided with the start of a new saeculum (cycle of years). It was followed by Hannibal's...

Giambattista Vico can be seen as precursors of this analysis. The saeculum was identified in Roman times. In recent times, P. R. Sarkar in his social cycle theory...

States from 14 July 939 to his death. His pontificate occurred during the Saeculum obscurum, when the power of popes was diminished by the ambitious counts...

translation: Dicționar etimologic român. Translated by Tudora Șandru Mehedinți & Magdalena Popescu Marin. Bucharest: Saeculum, 2001 (in part available online...

second. An appointee of Holy Roman Emperor Otto I, Leo VIII's pontificate occurred after the period known as the saeculum obscurum. Born in Rome in the...