Archaeology
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Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 1: Conversion and Apostasy, 373-388 CE [Hardback]
Jason BeDuhn (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812242102
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
In this first volume of Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, BeDuhn reconstructs Augustine's decade-long adherence to Manichaeism, apostasy from it, and subsequent conversion to Nicene Christianity. Based on his own testimony and contemporaneous so... .... Learn More -
Unclassical Traditions Volume 1: Volume I, Alternatives to the Classical Past in Late Antiquity [Hardback]
Michael Stuart Williams (Author); Christopher Kelly (Editor); Richard Flower (Editor); Michael Williams (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780906014332
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Volume: 34
Unclassical Traditions: Alternatives to the Classical Past in Late Antiquity is the first of two collections of essays by leading scholars discussing the nature and extent of the late-antique engagement with its classical heritage. This issue ha... .... Learn More -
Il Tesoro di Desana Una Fonte per lo Studio della Societa Romano-Ostrogota in Italia BAR IS2127 [Paperback]
Marco Aimone (Author)
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ISBN: 9781407306681
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2127
The Desana Treasure has been well known since its discovery, or rather, since it was purchased on the antiques market in 1938 by the Museo Civico di Arte Antica in Turin. The composition of the Desana treasure shows that is was collected over ce... .... Learn More -
Late Byzantine Coins (1204-1453) in the Ashmolean Museum [Hardback]
Eleni Lianta (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9781902040875
Published by : Spink Books
This volume presents the extensive corpus of late Byzantine coins held by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Each coin is illustrated with details of their type, size, inscriptions, iconography and provenance, whilst additional essays discuss met... .... Learn More -
The Fortifications of Butrint [Paperback]
Gjerak Karaiskaj (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780953555666
Published by : Butrint Foundation
This work on the fortifications of Butrint which here appears for the first time in English is one of the single most significant archaeological discourses produced on Butrint during the communist era in Albania (1945-91). It encapsulates per... .... Learn More -
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul [Hardback]
Marc Mastrangelo (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801887222
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
This study aims to restore Prudentius and late Roman poetry in general to a more central place in the formation of a new Christian intellectual tradition in the fourth century AD. Marc Mastrangelo shows how Prudentius was able to fuse ideas fro... .... Learn More -
The Water Supply of Byzantine Constantinople [Hardback]
James Crow (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780907764366
Published by : Roman Society Publications
Series: JRS Monograph
Volume: 11
This is the most detailed study to date of one of the most impressive feats of engineering of the entire Roman period and its equally impressive early medieval survival and rennovation. It presents a synthesis of historical material combined wi... .... Learn More -
The Butrint Baptistery and its Mosaics [Paperback]
John Mitchell (Author); J. Mitchell (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9780953555659
Published by : Butrint Foundation
The Baptistery with its near-perfectly preserved mosaic floor is undoubtedly the most famous of the monuments at Butrint. In this splendidly illustrated book, Mitchell analyses the narratives of salvation and rebirth inherent in its iconography... .... Learn More -
Archaeology in Architecture [Hardback]
Judson J. Emerick (Editor); Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis (Editor)
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ISBN: 9783805334921
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
Essays on the archaeology and architecture of Late Antiquity, Byzantium and early medieval Europe. Topics include art and ceremony, urban religious topography, Byzantine and Ottoman domestic architecture in town and country, architectual proportio... .... Learn More -
Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church [Hardback]
Michael Philip Penn (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812238808
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
In the first five centuries of the common era, the kiss was a distinctive and near-ubiquitous marker of Christianity. Christians kissed each other during prayer, Eucharist, baptism, and ordination and in connection with greeting, funerals, mon... .... Learn More
