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ISBN: 9781845113667
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
Focusing as much on history as theology Morwenna Ludlow explores the early centuries of Christianity (50-600 AD) and the factors behind the extraordinary success of the new religion. She looks at the establishment of Christianity as the state r... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503530130
Published by : Brepols
The Anglo-Saxon missionary Willibald is well-known for his extensive travels as related in Hugeburc's contemporary Vita Willibaldi . This book is a detailed study of this work and the extensive information it provides for the topography of Jeru... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300141566
Published by : Yale University Press
This superb book, lavishly illustrated with plans and photographs takes a largely archaeological approach in its comprehensive coverage of Ethiopia's early churches from the conversion of the Aksumite kingdom in the 4th century down to the 13t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300148992
Published by : Yale University Press
This book brings to wider attention a hitherto largely unknown Byzantine manuscript, the Jaharis Gospel Lectionary, purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2007. Accompanied by numerous full colour plates, John Lowden traces ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781846821615
Published by : Four Courts Press
The Great Persecution instituted by Diocletian in 303 represented both the last sustained Pagan attempt to marginalise and/or eliminate Christianity as a religion and a defining moment in the creation of Christian identity. Here eight essays ex... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780802827487
Published by : William B. Eerdmans
This magisterial volume is a comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arranged geographically within chronological periods. It covers the antecedents to Christian baptism and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780754659921
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
These essays deal with two central preoccupations: the new styles of political behaviour developed by Christian rulers and Christian congregations during the century or so after Constantine's conversion, and the experiments in religious self-p... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521767835
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book explores the intersection between two key developments of the fourth through seventh centuries CE: the construction of monumental churches and the veneration of saints. While Christian sacred topography is usually interpreted in narr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415394802
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This latest addition to Routledge's Early Church Fathers series, is like the others split between an introduction to and re-evaluation of Leo's life and works, and a selection of his writings in translation, in this case 18 of his homilies and... .... Learn More