Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence to illuminate the cultural, social, and political dynamics of the Later Roman Empire....Loe edasi...
This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issues concer...Loe edasi...
This book traces the transformation of the Baltic Rim in this period through a focus on the self-image of a number of communities: urban and regional, cultic, missionary, legal, and political....Loe edasi...
This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome...Loe edasi...
This book builds on more than a decade of fieldwork, providing an unprecedented overview of urban and rural development in the late medieval period....Loe edasi...
Through a look at the family, this book discusses the intersections between Roman and Christian legal culture, thought, and political power after the collapse of the Roman Empire....Loe edasi...
This collection of essays investigates signs of toleration, recognition, respect and other positive forms of interaction between and within religious groups of late antiquity....Loe edasi...
As this book demonstrates, early medieval Romanness encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged...Loe edasi...
This book explores a major step-change in Eurasian history: the revolutionary boom in standardised objects at the start of the Roman era....Loe edasi...
This volume presents a batch of incisive new essays on the relationship between Roman imperial power and ideology and Christian and Jewish life and thought within the empire....Loe edasi...
The present volume honours this distinctive voice in literary studies with a range of papers addressing some of his many interests, reflecting his deep and growing influence over half a century, and marking out areas for ongoing debate and developme...Loe edasi...
This volume considers lived space as a scholarly approach to the past, showing how spatial approaches can present innovative views of the world of Late Antiquity, integrating social, economic, and cultural developments and putting centre-stage this...Loe edasi...
This book argues that in order for people to live well, they must develop a virtue of playfulness. Inspired by Aristotle, the book draws on work from philosophy, classics, history, biology, psychology and media studies to understand the place of pla...Loe edasi...
Sari: Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Sep-2025, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003706069)
The book explains how the Eurcharist developed during the first thousand years, from the time of its inauguration by Christ at the Last Supper to the beginning of the great schism between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches....Loe edasi...
The chapters in this volume highlight the complexity and diversity of approaches to how ancient and medieval cultures understood martial masculinity and the significance warfare had on masculine values during the premodern era....Loe edasi...
This volume presents studies by international experts on aspects of the society, economy, religion, culture, and history of the Greek settlements of the ancient western Mediterranean, one of the most innovative areas of the ancient Greek world....Loe edasi...
