Search results for 'Late Antique'
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Alexandria: Auditoria of Kom el-Dikka and Late Antique Education [Hardback]
Ewa Wipszycka (Editor); Tomasz Derda (Author); Tomasz Markiewicz (Author)
£77.00ISBN: 9788391825075
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 8
Proceedings of the conference held in spring 2005 presenting the complex of auditoria in the very centre of late antique Alexandria in its cultural and historical context. .... Learn More -
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533 [Hardback]
Andrew Gillett (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780521813495
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The break-up of the Roman Empire was not only characterised by warfare and power struggles but, as Andrew Gillett shows, political communication and diplomacy played a vital role in the establishment of new political kingdoms. Using the legacy ... .... Learn More -
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Dying on Foreign Shores: Travel and Mobility in the Late-Antique West [Hardback]
Mark Handley (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9781887829861
Published by : John Humphrey
Drawing on a database (included as an appendix) of epigraphic evidence for travellers in the Late Antique west, altough biased by the nature of the evidence towards the Mediterranean, this study attempts to answer some of the big questions: who... .... Learn More -
Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology [Hardback]
Luke Lavan (Author)
£79.00ISBN: 9789004125674
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Late Antique archaeology has suffered from an identity crisis for some time, with some historians preferring the subject to remain classed as Roman, Early Medieval, Byzantine or Christian. The inception of this new series should help to define ... .... Learn More -
Celibate Marriages in Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography [Hardback]
Anne P. Alwis (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781441115256
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of celibate marriage as depicted in the lives of three couples who achieved sainthood (Julian and Basilissa, Andronikos and Athanasia, and Galaktion and Episteme). Including full translations, this vol... .... Learn More -
Families in the Roman and Late Antique World [Hardback]
Mary Harlow (Author);Lena Larsson Loven (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781441174680
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
This volume seeks to explain developments within the structure of the family in antiquity, in particular in the later Roman Empire and late antiquity. Drawing on the latest research by leading scholars in the field the book includes new approac... .... Learn More -
Objects in Motion: The Circulation of Religion and Sacred Objects in the Late Antique and Byzantine World [Paperback]
Hallie G. Meredith (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9781407308111
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The essays in this collection consider the circulation of religious material culture in the Late Antique and Byzantine world, exploring themes such as how objects become holy and their role as physical bearers of social memory, and of ideas. Su... .... Learn More -
Women of Jeme: Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt [Paperback]
Terry G Wilfong (Author)
£24.50ISBN: 9780472066124
Published by : University of Michigan Press
Jeme was a Christian enclave, under Muslim rule, located on the western side of the Nile in southern Egypt. Although badly looted and destroyed following its abandonment in the early 8th century, excavation has revealed a number of domestic hou... .... Learn More -