Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures – serie
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Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire
Av Peter Brown
Häftad, 2001
390 kr
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In three magisterial essays, Peter Brown, one of the world's foremost scholars of the society and culture of late antiquity, explores the emergence in late Roman society of "the poor" as a distinct social class, one for which the Christian church claimed a special responsibility. It is the story of …
Nation in History
Historiographical Debates About Ethnicity and Nationalism
Häftad, 2000
223 kr
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Roman Republic in Political Thought
Häftad, 2002
472 kr
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It is a fact that the very long-lived Roman Republic has consistently played a surprisingly slight role in political theory and discussions about the nature of democracy, forms of government, and other matters, particularly when compared to the enormous attention paid to fifth-century BCE Athenian …
Three Ways to Be Alien
Häftad, 2011
315 kr
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam's Three Ways to Be Alien draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a "Persian" prince of Bijapur (in central India, no less) held …
Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2012
351 kr
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In this book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel, the famed historian G. W. Bowersock presents a searching examination of political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam. Recounting the growth of Christian Ethiopia and the conflict with …
Blood and Boundaries – The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America
Av Stuart B. Schwartz, Yosef Kaplan
Häftad, 2020
306 kr
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In Blood and Boundaries, Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal’s policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin America. Rather than concentrating on the three …
Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500–2000
Av Peter Burke
Häftad, 2017
359 kr
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In this wide-ranging consideration of intellectual diasporas, historian Peter Burke questions what distinctive contribution to knowledge exiles and expatriates have made. The answer may be summed up in one word: deprovincialization. Historically, the encounter between scholars from different …
Ethics through Literature
Av Brian Stock
Inbunden, 2008
451 kr
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Why do we read? Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel in 2005, Brian Stock presents a model for relating ascetic and aesthetic principles in Western reading practices. He begins by establishing the primacy of the ethical objective in the ascetic approach to …
Religion in China and Its Modern Fate
Av Paul R. Katz
Häftad, 2014
349 kr
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Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites traditionally considered models of secular …
