Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
12 produkter
Theory, History, and the Study of Religion in Late Antiquity
Speculative Worlds
Häftad, 2023
308 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Theory is not a set of texts, it is a style of approach. It is to engage in the act of speculation: gestures of abstraction that re-imagine and dramatize the crises of living. This Element is a both a primer for understanding some of the more predominant strands of critical theory in the study of …
Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature
Häftad, 2025
324 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature is a genealogical study of two parallel but not coequal discursive trajectories: of 'magic' and of 'heresy.' This longue durée analysis charts how these two discursive streams intersect in myriad ways, for myriad ends, across the first four centuries …
Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element describes the most common educational processes of religious communities in the late antique period. Through a combination of historical analysis and examples, it provides an overview of the methods used to teach the alphabet and basic rhetoric, which were central to Jewish and …
Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2025
286 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element explores constructions of Israelite identity among Jewish, Samaritan Israelites, and Christian authors in Late Antiquity, especially early Late Antiquity. It identifies three major strategies for claiming an Israelite identity between these three groups: a 'biological' strategy, a …
Languages and Linguistic Diversity in Late Antique Mediterranean Religions
Häftad, 2026
317 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element is a study in cultural history, focusing on ancient Mediterranean religious traditions during the second to the early seventh centuries CE and their attempts to provide theologically sound explanations for the existence of multiple languages. The goal is to deliver a concise but …
Languages and Linguistic Diversity in Late Antique Mediterranean Religions
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element is a study in cultural history, focusing on ancient Mediterranean religious traditions during the second to the early seventh centuries CE and their attempts to provide theologically sound explanations for the existence of multiple languages. The goal is to deliver a concise but …
Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2026
892 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element describes the most common educational processes of religious communities in the late antique period. Through a combination of historical analysis and examples, it provides an overview of the methods used to teach the alphabet and basic rhetoric, which were central to Jewish and …
Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature is a genealogical study of two parallel but not coequal discursive trajectories: of 'magic' and of 'heresy.' This longue durée analysis charts how these two discursive streams intersect in myriad ways, for myriad ends, across the first four centuries …
Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2025
829 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element explores constructions of Israelite identity among Jewish, Samaritan Israelites, and Christian authors in Late Antiquity, especially early Late Antiquity. It identifies three major strategies for claiming an Israelite identity between these three groups: a 'biological' strategy, a …
Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'Witness' is not merely an etymological trace but central to late ancient Christian understandings of martyrdom. Drawing on dual traditions of elite parrhesia, or free speech, and the torture of enslaved witnesses, martyrs testified through their suffering and deaths to their own worthiness, the …
Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
Häftad, 2026
308 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'Witness' is not merely an etymological trace but central to late ancient Christian understandings of martyrdom. Drawing on dual traditions of elite parrhesia, or free speech, and the torture of enslaved witnesses, martyrs testified through their suffering and deaths to their own worthiness, the …
Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Av Mateusz Fafinski, Jakob Riemenschneider
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element will reevaluate the relationship between monasticism and the city in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the period 400 to 700 in both post-Roman West and the eastern Mediterranean, putting both of those areas in conversation. Building on recent scholarship on the nature of …
