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Shaping Letters, Shaping Communities: Multilingualism and Linguistic Practice in the Late Antique Near East and Egypt
The volume explores linguistic practices and choices in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean. It investigates how linguistic diversity and change influenced the social dimension of human interaction, affected group dynamics, the expression and negotiation of various communal identities, such as professional groups of mosaic-makers, stonecutters, or their supervisors in North Syria, bilingual monastic communities in Palestine, elusive producers of Coptic ritual texts in Egypt, or Jewish communities in Dura Europos and Palmyra. The key question is: what do we learn about social groups and human individuals by studying their multilingualism and language practices reflected in epigraphic and other written sources?
Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity
From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete with stories and discussions that feature Sasanian kings, Zoroastrian magi, fire temples, imperial administrators, Sasanian laws, Persian customs, and more quotidian details of Jewish life. Yet, in the scholarly literature on the Babylonian Talmud and the Jews of Babylonia , the Sasanian Empire has served as a backdrop to a decidedly parochial Jewish story, having little if any direct impact on Babylonian Jewish life and especially the rabbis. Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity advances a radically different understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and Sasanian rule. Building upon recent scholarship, Simcha Gross portrays a more immanent model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves. Babylonian Jews realized their traditions, teachings, and social position within the political, social, religious, and cultural conditions generated by Sasanian rule.
Sacra Silva
Il bosco nella sua dimensione economica, sociale, giuridica, è stato già oggetto di studio di numerose pubblicazioni. Questo volume si concentra invece sulla sua valenza sacrale e religiosa nella lunga durata che va dalla tarda antichità al medioevo. Luogo di confine in cui gli uomini si perdono o si ritrovano, paesaggio affollato di creature spaventose, di eremiti e briganti, spazio in cui l’uomo convive con gli animali e con le piante, il bosco è anche momento di incontro tra uomo, naturale e sovrannaturale, ambiente in cui l’umano incontra il divino nelle sue più varie manifestazioni. Questo sistema di relazioni, già esistente nei boschi sacri dell’antichità, permane ancora per il periodo in esame? O, piuttosto, siamo in presenza di uno spazio desacralizzato in cui gli esseri che lo abitano vivono secondo le leggi della natura, sovvertite solo temporaneamente dall’irruzione del miracoloso? Il libro cerca di rispondere a queste e ad altre domande, interrogando le fonti storiche, la tradizione iconografica e archeologica, la fortuna letteraria e la dimensione filosofica attraverso concreti e verificabili casi di studio.
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Jeux bureaucratiques en régime communiste
Les régimes de type soviétique se caractérisent par un degré particulièrement élevé de bureaucratisation. Formulée par Trotski puis par les théoriciens du totalitarisme, cette assertion s'est imposée comme une évidence. Qu'en est-il du degré de contrôle effectif des instances dirigeantes des pays du socialisme réel sur les administrations ? Comment les agents de l'Etat et les citoyens dans leur rapport à l'Etat utilisent-ils les marges de jeu qui restent malgré tout ouvertes ? Au-delà de l'analyse de ces "cas limites" de la bureaucratie, voici une contribution sur le fonctionnement de l'administration dans les sociétés contemporaines.
Divine Institutions
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Stanford University, 2014, titled Divine institutions: religious practice, economic development, and social transformation in mid-Republican Rome.
From Albania to Arrān
The first ever study in English dedicated to Albania in Late Antiquity to the Medieval period...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
