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"Libera curiositas"

Author : Christel Freu
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Libera curiositas" written by Christel Freu and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La 4e de couverture indique : "Jean-Michel Carrié a renouvelé en profondeur l'histoire de l'Antiquité tardive. Dans ses articles fouillés et ses synthèses érudites, il s'est attaché à donner de la période romaine tardive une appréciation nuancée, en s'appuyant sur le croisement de sources multiples, en particulier papyrologiques et juridiques. Son oeuvre a permis d'éclairer d'un jour nouveau des pans entiers des structures étatiques tardives. Les éditeurs ont souhaité ainsi rendre un hommage à la 'libera curiositas' scientifique et humaine de Jean-Michel Carrié. Les études rassemblées dans le volume couvrent les principaux champs qu'il a explorés, en premier lieu la fiscalité et l'armée romaine tardive. La politique de Rome à ses frontières est ensuite étudiée sous l'angle de la diplomatie, des alliances avec les peuples frontaliers et du recrutement des fédérés. Dans la troisième partie, les contributions consacrées aux sociétés et aux économies régionales reflètent l'étendue géographique des intérêts scientifiques de Jean-Michel Carrié, de la Bretagne à la Syrie, en passant par l'Italie et l'Egypte. Un hommage est ensuite rendu à son acribie dans l'interprétation de sources importantes comme les Panégyriques latins, les Res Gestae d'Ammien, les discours de Libanios, l'Histoire Auguste ou les Guerres de Procope. Enfin, la dernière partie du volume est consacrée à l'adaptation du droit et des représentations à la christianisation de l'Etat et de la société romaine tardive."

The Civilian Legacy of the Roman Army

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004698019
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Civilian Legacy of the Roman Army written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman army represented an important social and organizational reference model for the Romano-Barbarian societies, which progressively replaced the Western Empire in the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Middle Ages. The great flexibility of the decision-making and organizational solutions used by the Roman army allowed the ‘new lords’ to readapt them and thus maintain power in early medieval Europe for a long time. From a perspective ranging from political, social and economic history to law, anthropology, and linguistic, this book demonstrates how interesting and fruitful the investigation of this specific cultural imprint can be in order to gain a better understanding of the origins of the civilization that arouse after the fall of the Roman world. Contributors are Francesco Borri, Fabio Botta, Francesco Castagnino, Stefan Esders, Carla Falluomin, Stefano Gasparri, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Soazick Kerneis, Luca Loschiavo, Valerio Marotta, Esperanza Osaba, Walter Pohl, Jean-Pierre Poly, Pierfrancesco Porena, Iolanda Ruggiero, Andrea Trisciuoglio, Andrea A. Verardi, and Ian Wood.

Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity

Author : Geoffrey Greatrex
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317055446
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity written by Geoffrey Greatrex and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity examines the transformations that took place in a wide range of genres, both literary and non-literary, in this dynamic period. The Christianisation of the Roman empire and the successor kingdoms had a profound impact on the evolution of Greek and Roman literature, and many aspects of this are discussed in this volume - the composition of church history, the collection of papal letters, heresiology, homiletics and apologetic. Contributors discuss authors such as John Chrysostom, Ambrose of Milan, Cassiodorus, Jerome, Liberatus of Carthage, Victor of Vita, and Epiphanius of Salamis as well as the Collectio Avellana. Secular literature too, however, underwent important changes, notably in Constantinople in the sixth century. Several chapters accordingly reassess the work of Procopius of Caesarea and literature of this period; attention is also given to the evolution of the chronicle genre. Technical writing, such as military manuals and legal texts, are the focus of other chapters; further genres considered include monody, epigraphy and epistolography. Changes in visual representation are also considered in chapters devoted to diptychs, monuments and coins. A common theme that emerges from the chapters is the flexibility and adaptability of genres in the period: late antique authors, whether orators or historians, were not slavish followers of their classical predecessors. They were capable of engaging with their models, adapting them to their own purposes, and producing work that deserves to be considered on its own merits. It is necessary to examine their texts and genres closely to grasp what they set out to do; on occasion, attention must also be paid to the transmission of these texts. The volume as a whole represents a significant contribution to the reassessment of late antique culture in general.

Theoderic the Great

Author : Hans-Ulrich Wiemer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300254431
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Theoderic the Great written by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454-526). This engaging history of his life and reign immerses readers in the world of the warrior-king who ushered in decades of peace and stability in Italy as king of Goths and Romans. Theoderic transformed his roving "warrior nation" from the periphery of the Roman world into a standing army that protected his taxpaying Roman subjects with the support of the Roman elite. With a ruling strategy of "integration through separation," Theoderic not only stabilized Italy but also extended his kingdom to the western Balkans, southern France, and the Iberian Peninsula. Using sources as diverse as letters, poetry, coins, and mosaics, Hans-Ulrich Wiemer brings readers into the world of Theoderic's court, from Gothic warriors and their families to the notables, artisans, and shopkeepers of Rome and Ravenna to the peasants and enslaved people who tilled the soil on grand rural estates. This book offers a fascinating history of the leader who brought peace to Italy after the disintegration of the Roman Empire.

Christians in Conversation

Author : Alberto Rigolio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190915471
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Christians in Conversation written by Alberto Rigolio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, these new forms staged encounters between Christians and pagans, Jews, Manichaeans, and "heretical" fellow Christians. At times fiction, at others records of, or scripts for, actual debates, the dialogues give us a glimpse of Late Antique rhetoric as it was practiced and tell us about the theological arguments underpinning religious differences. By offering the first comprehensive analysis of Christian dialogues in Greek and Syriac from the earliest examples to the end of the sixth century CE, the present volume shows that Christian authors saw the dialogue form as a suitable vehicle for argument and apologetic in the context of religious controversy and argues that dialogues were intended as effective tools of opinion formation in Late Antique society. Most Christian dialogues are little studied, and often in isolation, but they vividly evoke the religious debates of the time and they embody the cultural conventions and refinements that Late Antique men and women expected from such debates.

The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt

Author : Alan Bowman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019189902X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt written by Alan Bowman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ptolemaic period in Egypt (332-30 BC) is one of the most well-documented periods of the Hellenistic age: in addition to the papyrological record there are more than 600 surviving Greek and Greek/Egyptian bilingual and trilingual inscriptions, ranging from massive public monuments, such as the Rosetta Stone, to small private dedications, funerary plaques, and metrical epigrams for the deceased. This volume offers a series of detailed studies of the historical and cultural contexts of these important inscriptions and is intended to complement the multi-volume Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions edition, in which the Greek and Egyptian texts will be presented together for the first time. The subjects discussed in the twelve chapters range widely across a variety of sub-disciplines, from advances in new technologies of image-capture, the juxtaposition of Greek and Egyptian elements in the layout and iconography of the monuments, and the palaeography of the Greek texts, to the history of the acquisition and study of the great bilingual decrees voted by the priests of the indigenous Egyptian cults, the introduction of Greek civic administration and communal associations in the cities and villages, and the role of the military in monumental commemoration. Particular attention is given to the role of indigenous and Greek religious institutions in Alexandria and the towns and villages of the Nile Delta and Valley, in which commemorative dedications to divinities of temples and statues by the monarchs and by private individuals are numerous and prominent. In a period shaped by the interplay between Egyptian and Greek culture, the existence of public and private inscribed monuments was a vital element of dynastic control. The unique insights offered by this thorough examination of the epigraphical landscape of Ptolemaic Egypt are invaluable to understanding the ways in which the Greek immigrant rulers and population established and reinforced their social and cultural dominance of an indigenous population which had its own long-established and traditional written and iconographic mode of public and private communication.

Empires and Indigenous Peoples

Author : Michael Maas
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806195096
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Empires and Indigenous Peoples written by Michael Maas and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romans who established their rule on three continents and the Europeans who first established new homes in North America interacted with communities of Indigenous peoples with their own histories and cultures. Sweeping in its scope and rigorous in its scholarship, Empires and Indigenous Peoples expands our understanding of their historical parallels and raises general questions about the nature of the various imperial encounters. In this book, leading scholars of ancient Roman and early anglophone North America examine the mutual perceptions of the Indigenous and the imperial actors. They investigate the rhetoric of civilization and barbarism and its expression in military policies. Indigenous resistance, survival, and adaptation form a major theme. The essays demonstrate that power relations were endlessly adjusted, identities were framed and reframed, and new mutual knowledge was produced by all participants. Over time, cultures were transformed across the board on political, social, religious, linguistic, ideological, and economic levels. The developments were complex, with numerous groups enmeshed in webs of aggression, opposition, cooperation, and integration. Readers will see how Indigenous and imperial identities evolved in Roman and American lands. Finally, the authors consider how American views of Roman activity influenced the development of American imperial expansion and accompanying Indigenous critiques. They show how Roman, imperial North American, and Indigenous experiences have contributed to American notions of race, religion, and citizenship, and given shape to problems of social inclusion and exclusion today.

The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature

Author : Dawn LaValle Norman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110862751X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature written by Dawn LaValle Norman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It argues that more was being written during this time than past scholars have realized and takes as its prime example the understudied Christian writer Methodius of Olympus. Among his many works, this book focuses on his dialogic Symposium, a text which exposes an era's new concern to re-orient the gaze of a generation from the past onto the future. Dr LaValle Norman makes the further argument that scholarship on the Imperial period that does not include Christian writers within its purview misses the richness of this period, which was one of deepening interaction between Christian and non-Christian writers. Only through recovering this conversation can we understand the transitional period that led to the rise of Constantine.

Talmudic Transgressions

Author : Charlotte Fonrobert
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004345337
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Talmudic Transgressions written by Charlotte Fonrobert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talmudic Transgressions is a collection of essays on rabbinic literature and related fields in response to the boundary-pushing scholarship of Daniel Boyarin. This work is an attempt to transgress boundaries in various ways, since boundaries differentiate social identities, literary genres, legal practices, or diasporas and homelands. These essays locate the transgressive not outside the classical traditions but in these traditions themselves, having learned from Boyarin that it is often within the tradition and in its terms that we can find challenges to accepted notions of knowledge, text, and ethnic or gender identity. The sections of this volume attempt to mirror this diverse set of topics. Contributors include Julia Watts Belser, Jonathan Boyarin, Shamma Boyarin, Virginia Burrus, Sergey Dolgopolski, Charlotte E. Fonrobert, Simon Goldhill, Erich S. Gruen, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Christine Hayes, Adi Ophir, James Redfield, Elchanan Reiner, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Lena Salaymeh, Zvi Septimus, Aharon Shemesh, Dina Stein, Eliyahu Stern, Moulie Vidas, Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, Elliot R. Wolfson, Azzan Yadin-Israel, Israel Yuval, and Froma Zeitlin.

Problems of the Secondary Teacher

Author : Wilhelm Jerusalem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Problems of the Secondary Teacher written by Wilhelm Jerusalem and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek

Author : Eleanor Dickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108897347
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek written by Eleanor Dickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, when, and how did speakers of ancient Greek borrow words from Latin? Which words did they borrow? Who used Latin loanwords, and how? Who avoided them, and why? How many words were borrowed, and what kind of word? How long did the loanwords survive? Until now, attempts to answer such questions have been based on incomplete and often misleading evidence, but this study offers the first comprehensive collection of evidence from papyri, inscriptions, and literature from the fifth century BC to the sixth century AD. That collection – included in the book as a lexicon of Latin loanwords – is examined using insights from linguistic work on modern languages to provide new answers that often differ strikingly from earlier ones. The analysis is accessibly presented, and the lexicon offers a firm foundation for future work in this area.

The Vice of Curiosity

Author : Paul J. Griffiths
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532657374
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Vice of Curiosity written by Paul J. Griffiths and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In these lectures, Griffiths seeks to develop a theology of intellectual appetite. He helps us see that our desire for knowledge is all too often informed by a distorted will that seeks to be in position of ownership over and control of that which we claim to know. By way of alternative, he draws on Augustine and others in order to sketch out a vision of knowledge as gift and a corresponding account of skills whose cultivation would enable meaningful participation in the gifts that we have been given.” —From the Foreword by Chris K. Huebner

The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture

Author : Monika Amsler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009297309
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture written by Monika Amsler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Monika Amsler explores the historical contexts in which the Babylonian Talmud was formed in an effort to determine whether it was the result of oral transmission. Scholars have posited that the rulings and stories we find in the Talmud were passed on from one generation to the next, each generation adding their opinions and interpretations of a given subject. Yet, such an oral formation process is unheard of in late antiquity. Moreover, the model exoticizes the Talmud and disregards the intellectual world of Sassanid Persia. Rather than taking the Talmud's discursive structure as a sign for orality, Amsler interrogates the intellectual and material prerequisites of composers of such complex works, and their education and methods of large-scale data management. She also traces and highlights the marks that their working methods inevitably left in the text. Detailing how intellectual innovation was generated, Amsler's book also sheds new light on the content of the Talmud. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Libera Fama

Author : Stratis Kyriakidis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443864064
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Libera Fama written by Stratis Kyriakidis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fame and glory, rumour and reputation have fascinated through the ages. The way in which they are communicated and spread is a topic which impacts our lives on a daily basis and is an important theme in current literature. The ancient world is an ideal arena for the exploration of these issues, being a ‘closed’ period of human history that offers a secure resource for exploring the phenomenon. Philip Hardie’s Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2012) is an authoritative work on this subject, and the stimulus for this volume. Continuing the on-going discussion, each one of the contributors examines further aspects of the issue in the work of Lucretius, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Manilius, Juvenal and the Christian poet, Prudentius. The volume offers insights into the poets’ personal quest for acclaim and – more importantly – their awareness of the qualities of the phenomenon, an awareness which, on occasion, led them to personify fame and glory. Virgil’s personification of Fama in Aeneid 4 was fame’s most important personification, influencing artists for centuries to come, and it is this subject with which the volume concludes.

The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300–620)

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108352235
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300–620) written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic collection of fragmentary Latin historians from the period AD 300–620, this volume provides an edition and translation of, and commentary on, the fragments. It proposes new interpretations of the fragments and of the works from which they derive, whilst also spelling out what the fragments add to our knowledge of Late Antiquity. Integrating the fragmentary material with the texts preserved in full, the volume suggests new ways to understand the development of history writing in the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

The Byzantine Neighbourhood

Author : Fotini Kondyli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429764987
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The Byzantine Neighbourhood written by Fotini Kondyli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantine Neighbourhood contributes to a new narrative regarding Byzantine cities through the adoption of a neighbourhood perspective. It offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of the spatial and social practices that produced Byzantine concepts of neighbourhood and afforded dynamic interactions between different actors, elite and non-elite. Authors further consider neighbourhoods as political entities, examining how varieties of collectivity formed in Byzantine neighbourhoods translated into political action. By both acknowledging the unique position of Constantinople, and giving serious attention to the varieties of provincial experience, the contributors consider regional factors (social, economic, and political) that formed the ties of local communities to the state and illuminate the mechanisms of empire. Beyond its Byzantine focus, this volume contributes to broader discussions of premodern urbanism by drawing attention to the spatial dimension of social life and highlighting the involvement of multiple agents in city-making.

The Confessions of Augustine

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Confessions of Augustine written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: