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ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9780748627905
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
Between the deaths of the Emperors Julian (363) and Justinian (565), the Roman Empire underwent momentous changes. Most obviously, control of the west was lost to barbarian groups during the fifth century, and although parts were... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9783895008573
Published by : Reichert Verlag
German Description:

Jenseits der urbanen Zentren, die bisher stärker im Fokus der Forschung lagen, werden einschlägige Komplexe spätantiker und westgotenzeitlicher Villenanlagen im ländlichen Bereich der gesamten Iberischen Halbinse... .... Learn More