Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity – serie
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Julian Augustus
Platonism, Myth, and the Refounding of Rome
Av Jeremy Swist
Inbunden, 2025
2003 kr
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The Roman emperor Julian (r. 361-363 CE) was a man of action and of letters, which he employed in an effort to return the Empire to the light of the pagan gods, and reverse the Christianization of the empire advanced by his uncle Constantine and the sons of Constantine. This enterprise was inspired …
The Qur'an and Late Antiquity
A Shared Heritage
Inbunden, 2019
2031 kr
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In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam. Typical exegesis of the Qur'an treats the text teleologically, as a fait accompli finished text, or as a replica or summary of the Bible in Arabic. Instead Neuwirth approaches the Qur'an as the …
Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350-450
Inbunden, 2020
1985 kr
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Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity reconsiders the religious history of the late Roman Empire, focusing on the shifting position of dissenting religious groups - conventionally called 'pagans' and 'heretics'. The period from the mid-fourth century until the mid-fifth century CE witnessed a …
Worshippers of the Gods
Debating Paganism in the Fourth-Century Roman West
Inbunden, 2020
1304 kr
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Worshippers of the Gods tells how the Latin writers who witnessed the political and social rise of Christianity rethought the role of traditional religion in the empire and city of Rome. In parallel with the empire's legal Christianisation, it traces changing attitudes toward paganism from the last …
Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity
Porphyry of Tyre and the Pagan-Christian Debate
Inbunden, 2015
2627 kr
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This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for an understanding of those cataclysmic …
Two Romes
Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity
Av Lucy Grig, Gavin Kelly
Häftad, 2015
1243 kr
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The city of Constantinople was named New Rome or Second Rome very soon after its foundation in AD 324; over the next two hundred years it replaced the original Rome as the greatest city of the Mediterranean. In this unified essay collection, prominent international scholars examine the changing …
Rome's Holy Mountain
The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2018
1825 kr
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Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome. Yet in the long history of the Roman state it was the empire's holy mountain. The hill was the setting of many of Rome's most beloved stories, involving Aeneas, Romulus, Tarpeia, and Manlius. It also held significant monuments, …
Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe
Inbunden, 2018
2336 kr
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The period 550 to 750 was one in which monastic culture became more firmly entrenched in Western Europe. The role of monasteries and their relationship to the social world around them was transformed during this period as monastic institutions became more integrated in social and political power …
Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus
Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century
Inbunden, 2018
1628 kr
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Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa in the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbio, the monastery founded by the Irish exile …
Sacred Stimulus
Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome
Inbunden, 2018
1191 kr
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Sacred Stimulus offers a thorough exploration of Jerusalem's role in the formation and formulation of Christian art in Rome during the fourth and fifth centuries. The visual vocabulary discussed by Galit Noga-Banai gives an alternative access point to the mnemonic efforts conceived while Rome …
Christians in Conversation
A Guide to Late Antique Dialogues in Greek and Syriac
Inbunden, 2019
1940 kr
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This book addresses a particular and little-known form of writing, the prose dialogue, during the Late Antique period, when Christian authors adopted and transformed the dialogue form to suit the new needs of religious debate. Connected to, but departing from, the dialogues of Classical Antiquity, …
Disciplining Christians
Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters
Inbunden, 2012
2337 kr
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Disciplining Christians reconsiders several of Augustine's most well-known letter exchanges, including his famously controversial correspondence with Jerome and his efforts to engage his Donatist rivals in a letter exchange. It reads these letters with close attention to conventional epistolary …
The Arabic Hermes
From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science
Inbunden, 2009
1646 kr
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This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works on astrology, alchemy, talismans, medicine, and philosophy. The ancient Greek Hermetica, with which the tradition …
Rome's Holy Mountain
Häftad, 2021
521 kr
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Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome. Yet in the long history of the Roman state it was the empire's holy mountain. The hill was the setting of many of Rome's most beloved stories, involving Aeneas, Romulus, Tarpeia, and Manlius. It also held significant monuments, …
The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian (363-364)
History and Fiction
Inbunden, 2022
1469 kr
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The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian (363-364): History and Fiction offers a new assessment of the Roman emperor's brief rule. A former imperial bodyguard, Jovian reinvigorated the Roman Empire militarily, administratively, and religiously. More than an imperial footnote, the years 363-364 …
Converting Verse
The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul
Inbunden, 2024
1211 kr
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For centuries, the Roman aristocracy encoded its social and cultural superiority in classical poetry. In the late Roman world, however, Christian poets--especially those in the outlying provinces of Gaul--began to experiment with poetry as a medium for exploring and asserting ascetic identities …
Christ the Emperor
Christian Theology and the Roman Emperor in the Fourth Century AD
Inbunden, 2024
1176 kr
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Politics and diplomacy have always been as much about the social and cultural contexts within which political actors operate as they are about the political structures themselves. This was also true of the Roman Empire of the fourth century AD, ruled by the Emperor Constantine the Great--a society …
Division of Empire
The Reign of the Sons of Constantine
Inbunden, 2024
1958 kr
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Constantine the Great died on May 22nd in 337 AD, leaving behind three sons--Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans--to face the challenge of how to rule the Roman Empire. Division of Empire follows the lives of these brothers, beginning with the death of their father, and traces how they …
Citizens of the Earth
Pagans and Their Gods in Augustine's North Africa
Inbunden, 2026
1119 kr
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Citizens of the Earth presents the first comprehensive account of Augustine's engagement with traditional Roman religion. A multifaceted case-study in the Christianization of the Roman Empire, it anchors Augustine's works in their intellectual and social context, narrating political and …
Explaining the Cosmos
Creation and Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Gaza
Inbunden, 2014
1909 kr
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Explaining the Cosmos analyzes the writings of three thinkers associated with Gaza: Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius. Together, they offer a case study for the appropriation, adaptation, and transformation of classical philosophy in late antiquity, and for cultural transitions more generally in …
The Poetics of Late Latin Literature
Av Jaś Elsner, Jesús Hernández Lobato
Inbunden, 2017
2441 kr
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The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in …
Two Romes
Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2012
2352 kr
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The city of Constantinople was named New Rome or Second Rome very soon after its foundation in AD 324; over the next two hundred years it replaced the original Rome as the greatest city of the Mediterranean. In this unified essay collection, prominent international scholars examine the changing …
Contested Monarchy
Integrating the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century AD
Av Johannes Wienand, Johannes Wienand
Inbunden, 2015
2234 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This volume aims to reappraise the wide-ranging and lasting transformation of the Roman …
History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East
Av Philip Wood
Inbunden, 2013
2077 kr
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History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East gathers together the work of distinguished historians and early career scholars with a broad range of expertise to investigate the significance of newly emerged, or recently resurrected, ethnic identities on the borders of the eastern Mediterranean …
In Praise of Constantius
Greek Panegyric in Late Antiquity
Av Alan J. Ross
Inbunden, 2026
1243 kr
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In Praise of Constantius offers historical and literary analysis of eight Greek panegyrics composed by Libanius, Themistius, and Julian in the 340s and 350s CE, and addressed to Constantius II and his wife, the empress Eusebia. Its central concerns are the role that the composition, performance, …
