Roga

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Since late antiquity, Roga (Latin) has been used to denote military pay and in the early Middle Ages, especially in writings relating to the papacy, a donation.

The term roga developed in late antiquity and is probably first used by Pope Gregory the Great . Etymologically, it probably comes from the Latin “erogare”, which in the Byzantine-Greek military language became “ῥογεύειν”, and then the simplified Latin “rogare”. During this time the roga referred to the distribution of pay to soldiers. From the 8th century on, the roga is often used as a term for papal donations.

literature

  • Johannes Kramer: From Papyrology to Romance Studies. Archives for papyrus research, supplements. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-024702-2 .
  • Ferdinand Gregorovius : History of the city of Rome in the Middle Ages from V. to XVI. Century . Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-423-05960-5 .
  • Klaus Herbers : Leo IV. And the papacy in the middle of the 9th century. (Popes and Papacy, Volume 27) Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7772-9601-5 .

Individual evidence

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Johannes Kramer: From papyrology to romance studies. Archives for papyrus research, supplements. De Gruyter. Berlin / New York 2011, p. 280.
  2. ↑ Johannes Kramer: From papyrology to romance studies. Archives for papyrus research, supplements. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2011, p. 283.
  3. ↑ Ferdinand Gregorovius : History of the city of Rome in the Middle Ages from V. to XVI. Century. Volume 1, p. 261.
  4. ↑ see e.g. B. the donation of Leo IV. On the occasion of the inauguration of the Leostadt on June 27, 852 ( RI I, 4.2 n. 254. on: Regesta Imperii Online. ) And on this Herbers, p. 150f.