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Christian Intellectuals and Roman Empi
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Christian Intellectuals and Roman Empi

A novel treatment of a group of early Christian authors, demonstrating that their behavior and self-presentation were shaped by the norms of Roman intellectual culture, and not simply by factors internal to Christianity.

Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 445

Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE)

This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. Covering a wide array of fascinating topics—such as ancient diagnostic practices using the pulse and urine, gynecological theories of women’s illness, treatments involving drugs and surgery, the training and work of physicians, the experiences of patients, and various sites where healing took place—this volume will engage readers interested in the rich history of health and healthcare. The volume brings together textual sources—many hard to access and some translated into English for the first time—as well as artistic, material, and scientific evidence, including: Medical trea...

Classifying Christians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Classifying Christians

Classifying Christians investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Oscillating between ancient ethnographic evidence and contemporary ethnographic writing, Todd S. Berzon argues that late antique heresiology shares an underlying logic with classical ethnography in the ancient Mediterranean world. By providing an account of heresiological writing from the second to fifth century, Classifying Christians embeds heresiology within the historical development of imperial forms of knowledge that have shaped western culture from antiquity to the present.

Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses

This book shows how Ancient Christians both used curses and criticized them in ancient Mediterranean religion and society.

Disability, Medicine, and Healing Discourse in Early Christianity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Disability, Medicine, and Healing Discourse in Early Christianity

Using contemporary theories drawn from health humanities, this volume analyses the nature and effects of disability, medicine, and health discourse in a variety of early Christian literature. In recent years, the "medical turn" in early Christian studies has developed a robust literature around health, disability, and medicine, and the health humanities have made critical interventions in modern conversations around the aims of health and the nature of healthcare. Considering these developments, it has become clear that early Christian texts and ideas have much to offer modern conversations, and that these texts are illuminated using theoretical lenses drawn from modern medicine and public h...

Diagnosing Deviance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 573

Diagnosing Deviance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-09-14
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  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

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The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings: Volume 3, Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 827

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings: Volume 3, Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy

Focuses on early Christian reflection on Christ as God incarnate from the first century to ca. 450 CE.

Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 443

Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World

This book proposes a new means of identifying how Greek and Syrian identities were expressed in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.

21st-Century Narratives of World History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

21st-Century Narratives of World History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-11-06
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book makes a unique and timely contribution to world/global historical studies and related fields. It places essential world historical frameworks by top scholars in the field today in clear, direct relation to and conversation with one other, offering them opportunity to enrich, elucidate and, at times, challenge one another. It thereby aims to: (1) offer world historians opportunity to critically reflect upon and refine their essential interpretational frameworks, (2) facilitate more effective and nuanced teaching and learning in and beyond the classroom, (3) provide accessible world historical contexts for specialized areas of historical as well as other fields of research in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, and (4) promote comparative historiographical critique which (a) helps identify continuing research questions for the field of world history in particular, as well as (b) further global peace and dialogue in relation to varying views of our ever-increasingly interconnected, interdependent, multicultural, and globalized world and its shared though diverse and sometimes contested history.

Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans

This book explores how Greek authors who witnessed sudden political change reacted by re-imagining the larger narrative of the Roman past.