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24 produkter
Orosius and the Rhetoric of History
E-bok, 2012
477 kr
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The Histories Against the Pagans of Orosius, written in 416/7, has been one of the most influential works in the history of Western historiography. Often read as a theology of history, it has been rarely been set against the background of ancient historiography and rhetorical practice in the time …
Orosius and the Rhetoric of History
Häftad, 2015
577 kr
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The Histories Against the Pagans of Orosius, written in 416/7, has been one of the most influential works in the history of Western historiography. Often read as a theology of history, it has been rarely been set against the background of ancient historiography and rhetorical practice in the time …
Orosius and the Rhetoric of History
Inbunden, 2012
2810 kr
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The Histories Against the Pagans of Orosius, written in 416/7, has been one of the most influential works in the history of Western historiography. Often read as a theology of history, it has been rarely been set against the background of ancient historiography and rhetorical practice in the time …
Education and Religion in Late Antique Christianity
Reflections, social contexts and genres
Av Peter Gemeinhardt, Lieve Van Hoof m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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This book studies the complex attitude of late ancient Christians towards classical education. In recent years, the different theoretical positions that can be found among the Church Fathers have received particular attention: their statements ranged from enthusiastic assimilation to outright …
One God
Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire
Av Stephen Mitchell, Peter Van Nuffelen
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
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Graeco-Roman religion in its classic form was polytheistic; on the other hand, monotheistic ideas enjoyed wide currency in ancient philosophy. This contradiction provides a challenge for our understanding of ancient pagan religion. Certain forms of cult activity, including acclamations of 'one god' …
Performing Justice in the Later Roman Empire
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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In the Later Roman Empire (AD 300-650), power seems to manifest itself mostly through legislation, bureaucracy, and an increasingly distant emperor. This book focuses instead on personal interaction as crucial to the exercise of power. It studies four social practices (petitions, parrhesia, …
Rethinking the Gods
Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period
Inbunden, 2011
1628 kr
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Ancient philosophers had always been fascinated by religion. From the first century BC onwards the traditionally hostile attitude of Greek and Roman philosophy was abandoned in favour of the view that religion was a source of philosophical knowledge. This book studies that change, not from the …
The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius
Edition, Translation and Commentary
Inbunden, 2025
2162 kr
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This is the first systematic collection of the remains of the lost Greek chronicles from the period AD 350-650 and provides an edition and translation of and commentary on the fragments. Introducing neglected authors and proposing new interpretations, it reveals the diversity of the genre and …
Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2019
1677 kr
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The Roman Empire traditionally presented itself as the centre of the world, a view sustained by ancient education and conveyed in imperial literature. Historiography in particular tended to be written from an empire-centred perspective. In Late Antiquity, however, that attitude was challenged by …
Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity
E-bok, 2019
1662 kr
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The Roman Empire traditionally presented itself as the centre of the world, a view sustained by ancient education and conveyed in imperial literature. Historiography in particular tended to be written from an empire-centred perspective. In Late Antiquity, however, that attitude was challenged by …
Rethinking the Gods
Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period
Häftad, 2021
569 kr
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Ancient philosophers had always been fascinated by religion. From the first century BC onwards the traditionally hostile attitude of Greek and Roman philosophy was abandoned in favour of the view that religion was a source of philosophical knowledge. This book studies that change, not from the …
One God
Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire
Av Stephen Mitchell, Peter Van Nuffelen
Häftad, 2021
586 kr
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Graeco-Roman religion in its classic form was polytheistic; on the other hand, monotheistic ideas enjoyed wide currency in ancient philosophy. This contradiction provides a challenge for our understanding of ancient pagan religion. Certain forms of cult activity, including acclamations of 'one god' …
Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity
E-bok, 2019
1613 kr
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The Roman Empire traditionally presented itself as the centre of the world, a view sustained by ancient education and conveyed in imperial literature. Historiography in particular tended to be written from an empire-centred perspective. In Late Antiquity, however, that attitude was challenged by …
Education and Religion in Late Antique Christianity
Reflections, social contexts and genres
Av Peter Van Nuffelen, Lieve Van Hoof m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
956 kr
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This book studies the complex attitude of late ancient Christians towards classical education. In recent years, the different theoretical positions that can be found among the Church Fathers have received particular attention: their statements ranged from enthusiastic assimilation to outright …
Education and Religion in Late Antique Christianity
Reflections, social contexts and genres
Av Peter Van Nuffelen, Lieve Van Hoof m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
935 kr
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This book studies the complex attitude of late ancient Christians towards classical education. In recent years, the different theoretical positions that can be found among the Church Fathers have received particular attention: their statements ranged from enthusiastic assimilation to outright …
Education and Religion in Late Antique Christianity
Reflections, social contexts and genres
Av Peter Gemeinhardt, Lieve Van Hoof m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2759 kr
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This book studies the complex attitude of late ancient Christians towards classical education. In recent years, the different theoretical positions that can be found among the Church Fathers have received particular attention: their statements ranged from enthusiastic assimilation to outright …
Jordanes: Romana and Getica
Av Peter Van Nuffelen, Lieve Van Hoof
Inbunden, 2020
2716 kr
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Of Gothic descent, Jordanes wrote a unique set of histories. The Getica narrates the history of the Goths from their earliest origins until the middle of the sixth century. Building on the lost history of Cassiodorus, it is the earliest example of a history told from the perspective of one of the …
Jordanes: Romana and Getica
Av Peter Van Nuffelen, Lieve Van Hoof
Häftad, 2023
844 kr
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Of Gothic descent, Jordanes wrote a unique set of histories. The Getica narrates the history of the Goths from their earliest origins until the middle of the sixth century. Building on the lost history of Cassiodorus, it is the earliest example of a history told from the perspective of one of the …
Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity
Av Johan Leemans, Peter Van Nuffelen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
3021 kr
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The present volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process that eventually resulted in one specific candidate …
Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity
Av Carla Nicolaye, Shawn W. J. Keough m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
2993 kr
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The present volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process that eventually resulted in one specific candidate …
Bible in Ancient Christian Historiography
Av Carson Bay, Jeremiah Coogan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
2879 kr
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How did the Bible shape the ways ancient Christians wrote history? The Bible in Ancient Christian Historiography examines how biblical texts informed, structured, and animated Christian historical writing from the first to the eighth centuries CE. Spanning diverse genres, from chronicles and church …
Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD
Performing Paideia, Constructing the Present, Presenting the Self
Av Lieve Van Hoof, Peter Van Nuffelen
Inbunden, 2014
2572 kr
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Late Antiquity is often assumed to have witnessed the demise of literature as a social force and its retreat into the school and the private reading room: whereas the sophists of the Second Sophistic were influential social players, their late antique counterparts are thought to have been …
