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Late Antique Letter Collections
Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.
A Corrupt Tree: An Encyclopaedia of Crimes committed by the Church of Rome against Humanity and the Human Spirit
‘A Corrupt Tree’ is a unique, extensively researched, four volume exposé of the dark side of the Church of Rome. It reveals that for nearly two thousand years the Church’s fundamental characteristic has been its self-serving abuse of religio-corporate power. A large proportion of this first volume provides a detailed catalogue of the multitude of unholy popes. Included, are those who were immature, capricious, corrupt, lascivious, fanatical, senile, truly mad, megalomanic, tyrannical, murderous, and wholesale killers. It confirms that for many, many centuries the popes were corrupt, cruel, inhumane, and despotic. In an age of savagery they were the leaders in barbarity; in the subsequ...
Das spätantike Rom und die stadtrömische Senatsaristokratie (395–455 n. Chr.)
Die spätantike Senatsaristokratie steht seit Längerem im Fokus der Forschung. Es sind eben nicht allein die Kaiser und Heermeister, die die Geschichte der Spätantike prägten. Die hier vorliegende Studie stellt die Frage nach der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung der stadtrömischen Senatsaristokratie und des Senats, und zwar für den so wichtigen Zeitraum von 395 bis 455 n. Chr. Die politische Ereignisgeschichte und die Interaktion, Kommunikation und Kooperation mit den politischen Hauptakteuren wird dabei ebenso untersucht wie die zentralen Aspekte der senatorischen Lebensführung, Repräsentation und Distinktion, einschließlich der Christianisierung. Entstanden ist eine Stu...
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The North African Stones Speak
Continuing his explorations of life in the Roman provinces, Paul MacKendrick surveys the rich and varied culture that spread from the eastern borders of modern Libya to the Atlantic. He focuses on the ascent of Roman hegemony in the African world, beginni
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing
The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.
Pergamon, Citadel of the Gods
"Pergamon, a center of the Roman imperial cult and one of the "seven churches" of Revelation 2, is referred to as "where Satan's throne is" and "where Satan lives." Now, for the first time, a comprehensive interdisciplinary discussion of this influential city from Hellenistic to Byzantine times has been developed." "Pergamon - Citadel of the Gods includes comprehensive descriptions of the ancient city's famous temples and sanctuaries by German archaeologists who excavated them. In addition, leading European and American scholars in the fields of classics provide interpretive essays."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Der Behinderung einen Sinn verleihen
Wie werden behinderte Figuren in der antiken Mythologie dargestellt? Diese Arbeit beleuchtet sechs prominente Figuren mit Behinderungen (Thersites, Teiresias, Oidipus, Hephaistos, Philoktetes und Plutos) und untersucht, wie verschiedene Autoren diverser Genres der antiken Literatur diese Figuren gestalten und welche Rolle dabei ihre Lahmheit bzw. Blindheit spielt. Es wird gezeigt, dass sich die Behandlung von behinderten Figuren keineswegs in ihrer Exklusion erschöpft, sondern Behinderungen ein Teil des ausgefeilten Instrumentariums antiker Erzählkunst sind. Gleichzeitig zeigt sich, wie wandelbar Mythen in den Händen ihrer Erzähler sind, die das narrative Material ihren Absichten anpasse...
Premodern ruling sexualities
This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities. It considers the methodologies and motivations of premodern writers and rulers when fashioning royal and elite sexualities and offers new analyses of an array of texts and artwork from across Europe and the wider Mediterranean.
