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Author : Agnes Carr Vaughan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Bury Me in Ravenna written by Agnes Carr Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-person novel of the fifth century based on the life of Galla Placidia, Visigothic queen and Roman empress.
Author : Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521836727
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Ravenna in Late Antiquity: AD; 7. Ravenna capital: 600-850 AD written by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of Ravenna's history and monuments in late antiquity, including discussions of scholarly controversies, archaeological discoveries, and interpretations of art works.
Author : Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421417014
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Rome's Christian Empress written by Joyce E. Salisbury and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The page-turning account of Galla Placidia, a remarkable ruler at the twilight of the Roman Empire. In Rome’s Christian Empress, Joyce E. Salisbury brings the captivating story of Rome’s Christian empress to life. The daughter of Roman emperor Theodosius I, Galla Placidia lived at the center of imperial Roman power during the first half of the fifth century. Taken hostage after the fall of Rome to the Goths, she was married to the king and, upon his death, to a Roman general. The rare woman who traveled throughout Italy, Gaul, and Spain, she eventually returned to Rome, where her young son was crowned as the emperor of the western Roman provinces. Placidia served as his regent, ruling the Roman Empire and the provinces for twenty years. Salisbury restores this influential, too-often forgotten woman to the center stage of this crucial period. Describing Galla Placidia’s life from childhood to death while detailing the political and military developments that influenced her—and that she influenced in turn—the book relies on religious and political sources to weave together a narrative that combines social, cultural, political, and theological history. The Roman world changed dramatically during Placidia’s rule: the Empire became Christian, barbarian tribes settled throughout the West, and Rome began its unmistakable decline. But during her long reign, Placidia wielded formidable power. She fended off violent invaders and usurpers who challenged her Theodosian dynasty; presided over the dawn of the Catholic Church as theological controversies split the faithful and church practices and holidays were established; and spent fortunes building churches and mosaics that incorporated prominent images of herself and her family. Compulsively readable, Rome’s Christian Empress is the first full-length work to give this fascinating and complex ruler her due.
Author : Daniel C. Cochran
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 197870769X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Building the Body of Christ written by Daniel C. Cochran and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Building the Body of Christ, Daniel C. Cochran argues that monumental Christian art and architecture played a crucial role in the formation of individual and communal identities in late antique Italy. The ecclesiastical buildings and artistic programs that emerged during the fourth and fifth centuries not only reflected Christianity’s changing status within the Roman Empire but also actively shaped those who used them. Emphasizing the importance of materiality and the body in early Christian thought and practice, Cochran shows how bishops and their supporters employed the visual arts to present a Christian identity rooted in the sacred past but expressed in the present through church unity and episcopal authority. He weaves together archaeological and textual evidence to contextualize case studies from Rome, Aquileia, and Ravenna, showing how these sites responded to the diversity of early Christianity as expressed through private rituals and the imperial appropriation of the saints. Cochran shows how these early ecclesiastical buildings and artistic programs worked in conjunction with the liturgy to persuade individuals to adopt alternative beliefs, practices, and values that contributed to the formation of institutional Christianity and the “Christianization” of late antique Italy.
Author : Kenneth Atkinson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476682356
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Empress Galla Placidia and the Fall of the Roman Empire written by Kenneth Atkinson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite her status as one of history's most important women, the story of Galla Placidia's life has been largely forgotten. Though the Roman empress witnessed the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and lived a life of almost constant suffering, her actions helped postpone the fall of Rome and had massive, widespread impact on the empire that can still be felt today. She watched the barbarian king Alaric and his horde of Visigoth warriors sack Rome, slaughter many of the city's inhabitants, and take her hostage. Surviving captivity, Galla Placidia became the queen of the barbarians who had imprisoned her. Eventually, she became the only woman to rule the Roman empire alone. Soldiers obeyed her commands while Popes and Christian saints alike sought her advice. Despite all obstacles and likely suffering from what we now know as PTSD, she lived to an old age by the standards of the time. This book uses the letters and writings of Galla Placidia's contemporaries to reconstruct, in more depth and detail than has previously been attempted, the remarkable story of her life and the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Author : Éamonn Ó Carragáin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351902628
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Roma Felix – Formation and Reflections of Medieval Rome written by Éamonn Ó Carragáin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Roman empire fell, medieval Europe continued to be fascinated by Rome itself, the 'chief of cities'. Once the hub of empire, in the early medieval period Rome became an important centre for western Christianity, first of all as the place where Peter, Paul and many other important early Christian saints were martyred: their deaths for the Christian faith gave the city the appellation 'Roma Felix', 'Happy Rome'. But in Rome the history of the faith, embodied in the shrines of the martyrs, coexisted with the living centre of the western Latin church. Because Peter had been recognised by Christ as chief among the apostles and was understood to have been the first bishop of Rome, his successors were acknowledged as patriarchs of the West and Rome became the focal point around which the western Latin church came to be organised. This book explores ways in which Rome itself was preserved, envisioned, and transformed by its residents, and also by the many pilgrims who flocked to the shrines of the martyrs. It considers how northern European cultures (in particular, the Irish and English) imagined and imitated the city as they understood it. The fourteen articles presented here range from the fourth to the twelfth century and span the fields of history, art history, urban topography, liturgical studies and numismatics. They provide an introduction to current thinking about the ways in which medieval people responded to the material remains of Rome's classical and early Christian past, and to the associations of centrality, spirituality, and authority which the city of Rome embodied for the earlier Middle Ages. Acknowledgements for grants in aid of publication are due to the Publication Fund of the College of Arts, Humanities, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at University College Cork; to the Publication Fund of the National University of Ireland, Dublin; and to the Office of the Provost, Ohio Wesleyan University.
Author : Oliver Nicholson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192562460
Total Pages : 1743 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity written by Oliver Nicholson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 1743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive reference book covering every aspect of history, culture, religion, and life in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East (including the Persian Empire and Central Asia) between the mid-3rd and the mid-8th centuries AD, the era now generally known as Late Antiquity. This period saw the re-establishment of the Roman Empire, its conversion to Christianity and its replacement in the West by Germanic kingdoms, the continuing Roman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Persian Sassanian Empire, and the rise of Islam. Consisting of over 1.5 million words in more than 5,000 A-Z entries, and written by more than 400 contributors, it is the long-awaited middle volume of a series, bridging a significant period of history between those covered by the acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary and The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. The scope of the Dictionary is broad and multi-disciplinary; across the wide geographical span covered (from Western Europe and the Mediterranean as far as the Near East and Central Asia), it provides succinct and pertinent information on political history, law, and administration; military history; religion and philosophy; education; social and economic history; material culture; art and architecture; science; literature; and many other areas. Drawing on the latest scholarship, and with a formidable international team of advisers and contributors, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity aims to establish itself as the essential reference companion to a period that is attracting increasing attention from scholars and students worldwide.
Author : Robin Cormack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351878921
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Through the Looking Glass: Byzantium through British Eyes written by Robin Cormack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume derive from the 29th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. This was held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies in the University of London in March 1995, in order to complement the British Museum exhibition 'Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture'. The objective of the symposium was to explore the ways in which British scholars, travellers, novelists, architects, churchmen and critics came into contact with Byzantium, and how they perceived what they saw. The present volume sets out some of the results of this enquiry. Byzantium is treated both as a source of influence on British culture as well as an 'idea' which British culture constructed in different ways in different periods of history. To give some comparative context, attention is also paid to attitudes towards Byzantium in continental Europe. Papers deal, amongst other topics, with the collecting of objects representative of Byzantine culture and with the changing appreciation of Byzantine manuscripts. They also include a series of case studies of individual historians and Byzantinists, and two deal in particular with Ruskin, who emerges as a perceptive 19th-century critic of Byzantine culture. Through the Looking Glass is volume 7 in the series published by Ashgate/Variorum on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher : New York : Bowker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fiction, 1876-1983: Titles written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by New York : Bowker. This book was released on 1983 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hannah Logasa
Publisher : Philadelphia : McKinley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Historical Fiction written by Hannah Logasa and published by Philadelphia : McKinley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1964 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kern County Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book This Month written by Kern County Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1116 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1964 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)
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Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
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Author : Tara Sivec
Publisher : EverAfter Romance
ISBN 13 : 9781682304419
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Bury Me written by Tara Sivec and published by EverAfter Romance. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I hear screams in my head. I see blood on my hands. When I look in the mirror I see a stranger. How is it that I can remember bits and pieces of my life, but nothing of any importance and nothing that makes any sense? Everything is twisted and nothing is right. I’m choking with every breath I take, suffocating on the unknown. Two days ago, everything changed. Two days ago, the people I should trust the most became strangers in my convoluted head. The dreams I have can’t be real. The fleeting memories that whisper through my mind are scary and wrong...they have to be. If they aren’t, I have something much worse to fear than my fractured mind. I need to find out the truth, even if it destroys me. I've been told my name is Ravenna Duskin. I’m eighteen years old and I live in a prison...
Author : Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Adult Catalog: Title written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
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Author : H.W. Wilson Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fiction Catalog written by H.W. Wilson Company and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an abridged edition of 1908 catalog issued under title: English prose fiction ... list of about 800 title.
