Early Christianity & Patristics - Late Antiquity & Byzantium

Debating Religious Space and Place in the Early Medieval World (c. AD 300-1000) [Hardback]

Chantal Bielmann (Editor); Brittany Thomas (Editor)

£95.00

ISBN: 9789088904196
Published by : Sidestone Press

Religious spaces are often some of the most debated, contested, or otherwise scrutinized in the early medieval world. That space and place were important to people in the past is evident in their architecture, artwork, literature, and in thei... .... Learn More

The Great Persecution: A Historical Re-Examination [Paperback]

Min Seok Shin (Author)

£60.00

ISBN: 9782503574479
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studia Antiqua Australiensia
Volume: 8
The Great Persecution under Diocletian and his imperial colleagues and successors is a foremost concern of modern scholarship on Roman persecution of Christians. This book is a systematic and comprehensive study of that persecution. Its focus is... .... Learn More

Eusebius of Caesarea: Against Marcellus [Hardback]

Kelly Spoerl (Translator); Markus Vinzent (Translator)

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ISBN: 9780813229911
Published by : Catholic University of America Press
Series: Fathers of the Church Series
This is the first English translation of the last two theological works of Eusebius of Caesarea, Against Marcellus and On Ecclesiastical Theology. The first text was composed after the deposition of Marcellus of Ancyra in 336 to justify the action... .... Learn More

Divine Powers in Late Antiquity [Hardback]

Anna Marmadoro (Editor); Irini-Fotini Viltanioti (Editor)

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ISBN: 9780198767206
Published by : Oxford University Press
Is power the essence of divinity, or are divine powers distinct from divine essence? Are they divine hypostases or are they divine attributes? Are powers such as omnipotence, omniscience, etc. modes of divine activity? How do they manifest? In whi... .... Learn More

Culture and Society in Later Roman Antioch [Paperback]

Isabella Sandwell (Editor); Janet and Sandwell Huskinson (Editor)

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ISBN: 9781842171028
Published by : Oxbow Books

This collection of papers brings together a broad range of new research and new material on Antioch in the late Roman period (the 2nd to the 7th centuries AD), from the writings of the orator Libanius and the preacher John Chrysostom to the e... .... Learn More

Augustine: Confessions Volume II: Books 9-13 [Hardback]

Carolyn J R Hammond (Editor)

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ISBN: 9780674996939
Published by : Harvard University Press
Aurelius Augustine (AD 354 430), one of the most important figures in western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica. While studying to become a rhetorician, he plunged into a tur... .... Learn More

Eastern Orthodox Christianity: The Essential Texts [Paperback]

Bryn Geffert (Author); Theofanis George Stavrou (Author)

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ISBN: 9780300196788
Published by : Yale University Press
Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world. Designed specifically for students and accessible to readers with little or no previous knowledge of theology ... .... Learn More

Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination [Paperback]

Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Author)

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ISBN: 9780520287563
Published by : University of California Press
This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first seventh centuries AD) by focusing on the importance of smell in ancient Mediterranean culture. Following its legalization in the fourth century Roman Empire, Ch... .... Learn More

Performing Orthodox Ritual in Byzantium [Hardback]

Andrew Walker White (Author)

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ISBN: 9781107073852
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study, Andrew Walker White explores the origins of Byzantine ritual - the rites of the early Greek Orthodox Church - and its unique relationship with traditional theatre. Tracing the secularization of paga... .... Learn More

Augustine: Conversions to Confessions [Hardback]

Robin Lane Fox (Author)

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ISBN: 9780465022274
Published by : Basic Books
Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to delight and challenge its many admirers. In it he writes about his infancy and his schooling i... .... Learn More