Archaeology
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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 -
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 to... .... 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 -
Studies in Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval Western Art, Volume 2: Studies in Medieval Western Art and the Art of Norman Sicily [Hardback]
Ernst Kitzinger (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828449
Published by : Pindar Press
This, the second of two volumes containing all of Professor Kitzinger's essays on late antique and medieval art, painting and mosaics, is accompanied by a new preface and a comprehensive index. Divided into three sections, Anglo-Saxon, the Medi... .... Learn More -
Christian Monuments of Cyrenaica [Hardback]
J. B. Ward-Perkins (Author); R. G. Goodchild (Author); Joyce Reynolds (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781900971010
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Volume: 4
Christian Monuments of Cyrenaica publishes archaeological studies undertaken between 1953 and 1971 by the late J. B. Ward-Perkins (d. 1981) and the late R. G. Goodchild (d. 1968). It presents Ward-Perkins accounts (mostly left in advanced draft fo... .... Learn More -
Politics, Philosophy and Empire in the Fourth Century: Select Orations of Themistius [Paperback]
Peter Heather (Author); David Moncur (Author)
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ISBN: 9780853231066
Published by : Liverpool University Press
Themestius had a long and prosperous career as an orator, philosopher and propagandist, beginning in AD 350 with his speech to Emperor Constantius II. He remained centre stage in the political and cultural life of Constantinople under Constanti... .... Learn More -
Saint Augustine's Childhood [Hardback]
Garry Wills (Author)
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ISBN: 9780670030019
Published by : Viking
This compact book translates the first book of the Confessions, together with his dialogue the Teacher, with a detailed commentary and introduction setting out the importance of childhood in Augustine's theology. .... Learn More -
Studies in Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval Western Art, Volume 1: Studies in Late Antique and Byzantine Art [Hardback]
Ernst Kitzinger (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828432
Published by : Pindar Press
This is the first of two volumes that contains all of Professor Kitzinger's major essays on the art of Late Antiquity, accompanied by a new preface and a comprehensive index. The volume is divided into two sections; the first on Late Antique a... .... Learn More -
Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late Antiquity [Paperback]
Sean A. Kingsley (Author); Michael Decker (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842170441
Published by : Oxbow Books
The results of recent archaeological excavation, systematic rural survey and detailed studies of pottery distributions have revealed the extent and complexities of the economy in the eastern empire. The eight papers in this volume demonstrate t... .... Learn More
