Late Antiquity & Byzantium
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Using Images in Late Antiquity [Paperback]
Stine Birk (Editor); Troels Myrup Kristensen (Editor); Birte Poulsen (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781782972617
Published by : Oxbow Books
Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD. They bring together an international group of scholars who situate the period’s visual practices within their political, religious... .... Learn More -
A Day of Gladness: The Sabbath Among Jews and Christians in Antiquity [Hardback]
Herold Weiss (Author)
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ISBN: 9781570034688
Published by : University of South Carolina Press
The Sabbath is traditionally considered to be the day of rest but, as Herold Weiss reveals, there are differences in the way in which the early Jewish and Christian faiths regarded and theologised about this day. This study looks at the differe... .... Learn More -
Social Networks in Byzantine Egypt [Hardback]
Giovanni Ruffini (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521895378
Published by : Cambridge University Press
"A book that zooms in on the daily lives of ordinary people". Giovanni Ruffini uses the abundant documentary evidence from sixth century Oxyrhynchos and Aphrodito and the techniques of social network analysis to map relationships and transaction... .... Learn More -
The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium [Hardback]
Sarolta A. Takacs (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521878654
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In this book Sarlota Takacs examines the rhetorical strategies employed to give authority to the empire and the person of the emperor from the late republic through to the reign of the emperor Heraclius, and beyond to their continuing relevance... .... Learn More -
Rome and the Barbarians, 100 BC - AD 400 [Hardback]
Thomas S. Burns (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801873065
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
Thomas S. Burns marshals an abundance of archaeological and literary evidence, as well as three decades of study and experience, to bring forth an unusually far-sighted and wide-ranging account of the relations between Romans and ... .... Learn More -
Six Byzantine Portraits [Hardback]
Dimitri Obolensky (Author)
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ISBN: 9780198219514
Published by : Oxford University Press
A study of the careers of six diverse figures from the wider area of Byzantine religious and cultural influence defined by Obolensky as the Byzantine commonwealth. The six are Clement of Ohrid, Vladimir Monomakh, Sava of Serbia, C... .... Learn More -
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years [Hardback]
Diarmaid MacCulloch (Author)
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ISBN: 9780670021260
Published by : Penguin Books Ltd
A huge and ambitious history of Christianity, beginning, as the subtitle suggests, not with Jesus himself, but with Christianity's Jewish and Classical origins. The main body of the text emphasises the huge variety of Christianity... .... Learn More -
Porphyrius the Charioteer [Hardback]
Alan Cameron (Author)
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ISBN: 9780198148050
Published by : Oxford University Press
Based on surviving epigrams as well as the Anthology, Cameron's study reconstructs the career of Porphyrius Calliopas, the most famous of sixth century charioteers as well as those of his contemporaries, discussing their fame and ... .... Learn More -
Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court AD 364-425 [Hardback]
John F. Matthews (Author)
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ISBN: 9780198148173
Published by : Oxford University Press
Volume: 1990
An unaltered reprint of the 1990 edition of this work that explores the lives, conduct, attitudes and aspirations of the Roman upper classes in the late Western Empire. In particular, Matthews focuses on the individuals that found authority and... .... Learn More -
Digenes Akrites [Hardback]
John Mavrogordato (Author)
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ISBN: 9780199240203
Published by : Oxford University Press
A romantic epic from medieval Greece. Includes the complete text of the poem and a facing translation. .... Learn More