Late Antiquity – all Bücher, LPs und CDs

Ian Wood
Europe in Late Antiquity

Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte - volume 43

Die Reihe Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte dient seit 1978 als wichtiges Mittel der Orientierung, sowohl für Studierende wie für Lehrende. Sie löst seither ein, was ihr Titel verspricht: ein Grundriss …

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War and Community in Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity (ca. 250-600 CE) was a world at war: barbarian migrations, civil wars, raids, and increasingly porous frontiers affected millions of its inhabitants. While military and political historians…

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Urban Religion in Late Antiquity

Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with "lived religion" in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes…

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Kevin Blachford
World Order in Late Antiquity

In World Order in Late Antiquity Blachford examines the diverse suzerain order of late antiquity as 'barbarous' nomadic tribes challenged the hierarchical ambitions of two rival empires who both claimed a…

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Guy G Stroumsa
Dynamics of Monotheism in Late Antiquity

The fundamental transformation of religion in late antiquity is usually perceived as the passage from Greco-Roman polytheism to Christian monotheism. The present work seeks to offer a more sophisticated a…

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Andrew Tobolowsky
Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity

This Element explores constructions of Israelite identity among Jewish, Samaritan Israelites, and Christian authors in Late Antiquity. It makes various conclusions about the construction of ethnic identit…

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Andrew Tobolowsky
Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity

This Element explores constructions of Israelite identity among Jewish, Samaritan Israelites, and Christian authors in Late Antiquity, especially early Late Antiquity. It identifies three major strategies…

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Simcha Gross
Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity

"Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Building upon recent developments in the study of the …

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Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity

The city was one of the central and defining features of the world of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Challenging the idea that the ancient city 'declined and fell', Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that …

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Christopher S Celenza
The Evolution of Western Thought: Volume 1, from the Ancient World to Late Antiquity

A rich and immersive reinterpretation of the entire history of Western thought, this volume - the first in a major trilogy - explores the transmission and development of philosophical ideas from Plato and…

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Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity

The period from the Late Roman Republic to the end of antiquity was marked by a wide interest in divination, and more broadly by an intense belief in the possibility of establishing close and personal con…

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Alan J Ross
In Praise of Constantius

In Praise of Constantiusargues that prominent pagan orators in Late Antiquity used the performance of speeches of praise to control and respond to significant shifts in their own careers and in imperial p…

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Philip Abbott
Sounds for a New World

In the Greco-Roman world, gods were known to tame soundscapes, or acoustic landscapes. Zeus, Apollo, Orpheus, and other Classical deities demonstrated their power by bringing order to chaotic sound worlds…

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Michael L. Satlow
An Enchanted World

Uncovering the vibrant spiritual life of Late AntiquityIn Late Antiquity (ca. 200-600 CE), the world was alive with unseen forces-divine agents who influenced every aspect of daily life. For most ordinary…

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Susanna Elm
The Importance of Being Gorgeous

"This is a wonderful, sophisticated book that, like all others written by Susanna Elm, combines a sensitive reading of ancient source materials with intense creativity, to produce a study of imperial…

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Anthony Kaldellis
Phantom Byzantium

How the West appropriated aspects of the eastern Roman empire while portraying it as inferior.Unveiling the ideological foundations of Byzantine studies, Phantom Byzantium is a pioneering survey of wester…

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Susanna Elm
The Importance of Being Gorgeous

"This is a wonderful, sophisticated book that, like all others written by Susanna Elm, combines a sensitive reading of ancient source materials with intense creativity, to produce a study of imperial…

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Saqib Hussain
Wisdom in the Qur'an

This work is the first detailed study of what the Qur'an means by 'wisdom.' It argues that the Qur'an, when it uses the term, is engaging with biblical wisdom discourse as it had been interpreted and unde…

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The Reception of John Philoponus' Natural Philosophy

In some of his most famous works, John Philoponus (c. 490-570 CE) confronts numerous aspects of Aristotle's philosophy and science. Yet the influence of these reinterpretations and critiques remains under…

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Krista N. Dalton
How Rabbis Became Experts

"How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman Palestine at the turn of the common era. The Jewish communities of Roman Palestine saw the organization of a small g…

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