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Church and Society in Late Byzantium [Paperback]
Dimiter Angelov (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781580441438
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
It has long been noted that the prestige and power of the church were steadily growing in the period of the late Byzantine empire, a tendency that was complex, multifaceted, and sometimes ambivalent. The essays in this collection seek to shed ligh... .... 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 -
Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World [Hardback]
Catherine M. Chin (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812240351
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
This book looks at the contribution of the grammarian to the creation of a distinctively Christian classical culture and to promoting theological ideas and milleux. The grammarian taught latin language and literature, and were particularly conc... .... Learn More -
Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth-Century Palestine: The Career of Peter the Iberian [Hardback]
Cornelia B. Horn (Author)
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ISBN: 9780199277537
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Life of Peter the Iberian by John Rufus records the ascetic struggle of a fifth-century anti-Chalcedonian bishop of Mayyuma, Palestine. Cornelia Horn presents a historical-critical study of the only substantial anti-Chalcedonian witness to the... .... Learn More -
Augustine of Hippo: Selected Writings [Paperback]
Emilie Griffin (Author)
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ISBN: 9780060754662
Published by : Harper Collins Publishers
Contains selections from the Confessions, The Happy Life, On the Trinity, the City of God and the Rule of St. Augustine in English translation. .... Learn More -
The Church of the Archangel Michael at Kavalariana: Art and Society on Fourteenth-Century Venetian-Dominated Crete [Hardback]
Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597315
Published by : Pindar Press
Dr. Angeliki Lymberopoulou lectures on Byzantine Studies at the Open University, and is an expert on the art and society of Venetian-dominated Crete (12111669). During this period, Crete was perhaps the most important Venetian stronghold in the Me... .... Learn More -
Ambrose's Patriarchs: Ethics for the Common Man [Paperback]
Marcia Colish (Author)
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ISBN: 9780268023652
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
In this detailed study of the patriarch treatises of Ambrose of Milan (c.340-379) Marcia Colish addresses the question of the audience for which these works were destined. She argues that the treatises were geared towards the average lay person... .... 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 -
Augustine: The Confessions [Paperback]
Gillian Clark (Author)
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ISBN: 9781904675037
Published by : Bristol Phoenix Press
The Confessions , written at the close of the 4th century CE, is a highly significant text in the history of European culture. Augustine explains just how and why he came to abandon a successful career and the personal enjoyments of a largely ... .... Learn More
