Archaeology
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The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c.500 to 1050 [Hardback]
Florin Curta (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9780748638093
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
This new history of early medieval Greece takes a social and economic approach to its subject. Curta argues that the nature if Greece's development during this period has been obscured by debates on ethnicity, and by an over-emphasis on Byzanti... .... Learn More -
Theoderet's People: Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman Syria [Hardback]
Adam M. Schor (Author)
£34.95ISBN: 9780520268623
Published by : University of California Press
"Theodoret's People" sheds new light on religious clashes of the mid-fifth century regarding the nature (or natures) of Christ. Adam M. Schor focuses on Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus, his Syrian allies, and his opponents, led by Alexandrian bish... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Late Antique 'Paganism' [Hardback]
Luke Lavan (Author);Michael Mulryan (Author)
£180.00ISBN: 9789004192379
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
There is no agreement over how to name the 'pagan' cults of late antiquity. Clearly they were more diverse than this Christian label suggests, but also exhibited tendencies towards monotheism and internal changes which makes it difficult to de... .... Learn More -
Damascius' Problems and Solutions Regarding First Principles [Hardback]
Sara Ahbel-Rappe (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780195150292
Published by : Oxford University Press
Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529. His work, Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, is the last surviving independent philosophical treatise from the L... .... Learn More -
Ambrose and John Chrysostom: Clerics between Desert and Empire [Hardback]
J H W G Liebeschuetz (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780199596645
Published by : Oxford University Press
J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz compares the personalities and the respective careers of two of the greatest of the early Christian Fathers, Ambrose and John Chrysostom. While the statesmanlike Ambrose ended his life as a pillar of the Western establi... .... Learn More -
Reading Sin in the World: The Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the Vocation of the Resposible Reader [Hardback]
Anthony Dykes (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781107004535
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Prudentius is one of the major Latin poets of antiquity. A Christian living and writing in Spain in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, he was thoroughly imbued with the whole tradition of Latin poetry. The Hamartigenia is a didactic poe... .... Learn More -
Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425 [Hardback]
Kyle Harper (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9780521198615
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In this comprehensive study of late Roman slavery Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, arguing instead that a deep divide runs through 'late antiquity', separating the Roman slave... .... Learn More -
Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine [Hardback]
Brent Shaw (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9780521196055
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Brent D. Shaw provides an expansive new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of North Africa in late antiquity, in which Augustine played a central role as Bishop of Hippo. The development and dep... .... Learn More -
Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine [Paperback]
Brent Shaw (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780521127257
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Brent D. Shaw provides an expansive new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of North Africa in late antiquity, in which Augustine played a central role as Bishop of Hippo. The development and dep... .... Learn More -
Compiling the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanorum in Late Antiquity [Hardback]
Robert Frakes (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780199589401
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum, or Collation of the Laws of Moses and the Romans, is one of the most perplexing works of late antiquity: a law book compiled at the end of the fourth century by an anonymous editor who wanted to show ... .... Learn More