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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

pontificate fell during an obscure period in papal and Roman history, the so-called Saeculum obscurum (904–964). According to the Liber pontificalis...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Arab (Latin: Marcus Julius Philippus "Arabs"; c. 204 – September 249) was Roman emperor from 244 to 249. He was born in the province of Arabia Petraea,...

(5th–10th centuries), the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire Saeculum obscurum ("dark age/century"), a period in the history of the papacy...

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...

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...

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...

Historians use the term Saeculum obscurum to describe the period when the Papacy was under the direct control of the Roman nobility, in particular when...