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Pachomius
The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt
Häftad, 1999
428 kr
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Pachomius, who died in 346, has long been regarded as the "founder of monasticism." Available again, Philip Rousseau's careful reading of the available texts reveals that Pachomius's pioneering enterprise has been consistently misread in light of later monastic practices. Rousseau not only provides …
Final Pagan Generation
Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity
Inbunden, 2015
307 kr
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The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century's dramatic religious and political changes, when heated …
Theodosian Empresses
Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 1989
441 kr
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Theodosian Empresses sets a series of compelling women on the stage of history and offers new insights into the eastern court in the fifth century.
Matter of the Gods
Religion and the Roman Empire
Häftad, 2008
307 kr
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What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, and what motivated them to change those rituals? To these questions Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: in contrast to ancient Christians, who had faith, Romans had knowledge, and their knowledge was …
Wandering, Begging Monks
Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity
Av Daniel Caner
Häftad, 2020
307 kr
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An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose patronage gave them considerable authority …
Failure of Empire
Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D.
Av Noel Lenski
Häftad, 2014
326 kr
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Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (A.D. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat …
Guardians of Language
The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 1988
947 kr
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What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools" - the schools of grammar and rhetoric - in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despite the political and …
On Roman Time
The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 1991
1013 kr
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Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of ancient Rome. "The Codex-Calendar of 354" miraculously survived the Fall of Rome. Although it was subsequently lost, the copies made in the Renaissance …
Homer the Theologian
Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition
Häftad, 1989
343 kr
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Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic and thereby alter permanently the …
Gregory the Great
Perfection in Imperfection
Av Carole Straw
Häftad, 1991
299 kr
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Gregory I (590-604) is often considered the first medieval pope and the first exponent of a truly medieval spirituality. Carole Straw places Gregory in his historical context and considers the many facets of his personality--monk, preacher, and pope--in order to elucidate the structure of his …
Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Av A. P. Kazhdan, Ann Wharton Epstein
Häftad, 1990
461 kr
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Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this traditional image by documenting the dynamic social changes that …
Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul
Häftad, 1992
428 kr
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The rise of Christianity to the dominant position it held in the Middle Ages remains a paradoxical achievement. Early Christian communities in Gaul had been so restrictive that they sometimes persecuted misfits with accusations of heresy. Yet by the fifth century Gallic aristocrats were becoming …
In Praise of Later Roman Emperors
The Panegyrici Latini
Av C. E. V. Nixon, Barbara Saylor Rodgers
Inbunden, 1995
1394 kr
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Here, for the first time, is an annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 C.E.) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by R. A. B. Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, …
Ambrose of Milan
Church and Court in a Christian Capital
Inbunden, 1994
642 kr
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In this new and illuminating interpretation of Ambrose, bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, Neil McLynn thoroughly sifts the evidence surrounding this very difficult personality. The result is a richly detailed interpretation of Ambrose's actions and writings that penetrates the bishop's painstaking …
Shadows of Poetry
Vergil in the Mind of Augustine
Inbunden, 1998
886 kr
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Imperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the late sixth centuries A.D., as manifest in the official literature and art of the time. Her study …
Holy Women of the Syrian Orient
Häftad, 1998
264 kr
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The fifteen hagiographies about holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the fourth to seventh centuries A.D., they are translated from Syriac into accessible and vivid prose. …
Basil of Caesarea
Häftad, 1998
515 kr
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Basil of Caesarea is thought of most often as an opponent of heresy and a pioneer of monastic life in the eastern church. In this new biographical study, however, controversy is no longer seen as the central preoccupation of his life nor are his ascetic initiatives viewed as separable from his …
Barbarian Plain
Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran
Inbunden, 1999
642 kr
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During the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. there arose on the Euphrates frontier, between the empires of Rome and Iran, a city girded with glittering gypsum walls. Within these walls stood a great church, a shrine for the relics of Saint Sergius, who was martyred there, at Rusafa, in the early …
Paulinus of Nola
Life, Letters, and Poems
Inbunden, 1999
636 kr
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This study offers a comprehensive reconsideration of the life and literary works of Paulinus of Nola (ca. 352-431), a Roman senator who renounced his political career and secular lifestyle to become a monk, bishop, impresario of a saint's cult, and prominent Christian poet. Dennis Trout considers …
Private Orations of Themistius
Inbunden, 1999
824 kr
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Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the fourth century A.D. In this first translation of Themistius' private orations to be published in English, Robert J. Penella makes accessible texts that shed significant light on the …
Memory of the Eyes
Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2000
771 kr
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Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. Through an original …
Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity
Av Tomas Hägg, Philip Rousseau
Inbunden, 2000
968 kr
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The two centuries between a.d. 250 and a.d. 450 witnessed the creation of a distinctive Christian Greek culture in the eastern part of the Roman empire. This book focuses on the transition from ancient to Christian Hellenism as it was expressed in the biographical and panegyric literature of the …
Subtle Bodies
Representing Angels in Byzantium
Av Glenn Peers
Inbunden, 2001
794 kr
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Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This …
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2003
759 kr
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Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This …
Wandering, Begging Monks
Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity
Av Daniel Caner
Inbunden, 2002
642 kr
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An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose patronage gave them considerable authority …
Qusayr 'Amra
Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria
Av Garth Fowden
Inbunden, 2004
1058 kr
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From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is …
There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ
Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire
Inbunden, 2005
1027 kr
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'There is no crime for those who have Christ', claimed a fifth-century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in-depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the …
Scenting Salvation
Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
Inbunden, 2006
1027 kr
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This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first - seventh centuries AD) by focusing on the importance of smell in ancient Mediterranean culture. Following its legalization in the fourth century Roman Empire, Christianity cultivated a dramatically flourishing …
Encountering the Sacred
The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2005
1027 kr
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This innovative study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity--the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world--by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and theological debates of the time. Asking how the emerging notion of …
Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity
The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition
Av Claudia Rapp
Inbunden, 2005
1027 kr
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Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop - as the highest Church official in his city - from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's …
