Late Antiquity & Byzantium
The Roman Empire from the rise of Christianity in the fourth century to its fall in the west in the fifth, and the Eastern/Byzantine Empire through to its fall in the fifteenth century.
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Augustine: De Civitate Dei VIII and IX [Hardback]
P. G. Walsh (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780856688546
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the af... .... Learn More -
Augustine: De Civitate Dei VIII and IX [Paperback]
P. G. Walsh (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9780856688539
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the af... .... Learn More -
The Rise of Western Christendom: Tenth Anniversary Revised Edition [Paperback]
Peter Brown (Author)
£27.99ISBN: 9781118301265
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This substantial and comprehensive overview of the emergence of Christian Europe has been largely rewritten and expanded since its first publication in 1996. Brown's synthesis asks the student reader to re-evaluate his view of the political and... .... Learn More -
Land and Privilege in Byzantium: The Institution of Pronoia [Hardback]
M. C. Bartusis (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9781107009622
Published by : Cambridge University Press
A pronoia was a type of conditional grant from the emperor, often to soldiers, of various properties and privileges. Filling the need for a comprehensive study of the institution, this book examines the origin, evolution and char... .... Learn More -
The Celebration of the Saints in Byzantine Art and Liturgy [Hardback]
Nancy P. Sevcenko (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9781409411604
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the 9th century. Some papers are devoted to the church calendar and the annual commemorations of hundreds of ... .... Learn More -
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity [Hardback]
Scott Johnson (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9780195336931
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume co... .... 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 -
Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and its Decoration [Hardback]
Mark Johnson (Author);Robert Ousterhout (Author);Amy Papalexandrou (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9781409427407
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
The fourteen essays in this collection demonstrate a wide variety of approaches to the study of Byzantine architecture and its decoration, a reflection of both newer trends and traditional scholarship in the field. These include the analysis of... .... Learn More -
Byzantine Epirus: Settlements From the 7th to the 12th Centuries - A Topography of Transformation [Hardback]
Myrto Veikou (Author)
£200.00ISBN: 9789004221512
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Drawing on archaeological fieldwork in Western Greece, this book offers a fresh model for interpreting the transformation of medieval settlement (600-1200 AD). Rereading Byzantine texts from a postmodern theoretical background, it introduces a ... .... Learn More -
Ehrenstatuen in der Spätantike [Hardback]
Ulrich Gehn (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9783895008610
Published by : Reichert Verlag
German Description:
Ehrenstatuen, konstitutiver Bestandteil der antiken, insbesondere der römischen Stadtkultur und ein ausnehmend konservatives Medium der Selbstdarstellung der gesellschaftlichen Eliten, erfahren in der Spätantike ... .... Learn More