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The Reputation of the Roman Merchant
Roman merchants, artisans, and service providers faced substantial prejudice. Contemporary authors labeled them greedy, while the Roman on the street accused merchants of lying and cheating. Legally and socially, merchants were kept at arm’s length from respectable society. Yet merchants were common figures in daily life, populating densely packed cities and traveling around the Mediterranean. The Reputation of the Roman Merchant focuses on the strategies retailers, craftsmen, and many other workers used to succeed, examining how they developed good reputations despite the stigma associated with their work. In a novel approach, blending social and economic history, The Reputation of the Ro...
Late Antiquity in Contemporary Debate
Late Antiquity, once known only as the period of protracted decline in the ancient world (Bas-Empire), has now become a major research area. In recent years, a wide-ranging historiographic debate on Late Antiquity has also begun. Replacing Gibbon’s categories of decline and decadence with those of continuity and transformation has not only brought to the fore the concept of the Late Roman period, but has made the alleged hiatus between the Roman, Byzantine and Mediaeval ages less important, while also driving to the margins the question of the end of the Roman Empire. This has broadened the scope of research on Late Antiquity enormously and made the issue of periodization of crucial signif...
1998
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
2002
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
Augustine’s Leaders
In Augustine's Leaders, Peter Iver Kaufman works from the premise that appropriations of Augustine endorsing contemporary liberal efforts to mix piety and politics are mistaken--that Augustine was skeptical about the prospects for involving Christianity in meaningful political change. His skepticism raises several questions for historians. What roles did one of the most influential Christian theologians set for religious and political leaders? What expectations did he have for emperors, statesmen, bishops, and pastors? What obstacles did he presume they would face? And what pastoral, polemical, and political challenges shaped Augustine's expectations--and frustrations? Augustine's Leaders answers those questions and underscores the leadership its subject provided as he continued to commend humility and compassion in religious and political cultures that seemed to him to reward, above all, celebrity and self-interest.
Zalmoxis de la Herodot la Mircea Eliade: Istorii despre un zeu al pretextului
Rar se poate gasi un subiect mai controversat ca figura lui Zalmoxis in istoriografie. Volumul face o trecere in revista a surselor antice – incepind cu textul fondator al lui Herodot –, dar si a comentariilor moderne – in care tezele lui Mircea Eliade joaca un rol semnificativ –, in incercarea de a ne oferi o imagine cit mai completa a zeului. Acesta nu mai apare ca un fondator sau ca un maestru al initierilor, ci ca un pretext schimbator, in masura sa scoata la lumina diferitele intentii care au alimentat o dezbatere indelungata. Scris intr-o maniera accesibila, Zalmoxis de la Herodot la Mircea Eliade constituie o lectura placuta si utila atit pentru specialisti, cit si pentru publicul larg. Cuprins: Legenda lui Zalmoxis in spatiul literar grec • Un nume, mai multe imagini • Iordanes si lunga sa traditie medievala • Zalmoxis in zorii Europei moderne • Teorii savante despre Zalmoxis: o succesiune de paradigme • Teorii recente despre Zalmoxis: altfel de paradigme • Zalmoxis in Romania si Bulgaria: mirajul unei spiritualitati exemplare • Inapoi in tara getilor • Zalmoxis, un zeu al pretextului
