Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed. Many...
How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their ownDomesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creative...
Explores the ever-present experiences of risk that characterized the daily existence of individuals, communities, and societies in the late Roman worldLiving with Risk in the Late Roman World explores...
Covers three thousand years of history and highlights key pieces from the British Museum’s outstanding collection of Egyptian antiquitiesThe rulers of ancient Egypt were not always male, nor always...
A new literary history of Arabic poetry from 500–750 CE that includes hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into EnglishTo interpret the Quran’s Arabic, early medieval Muslims turned...
Today the history of ancient Egypt is known around the world, recognisable in precious museum collections and countless retellings from popular culture. Yet for hundreds of years, from the late Roman...
Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity
Georgia Frank
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512823950
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
What can we know about the everyday experiences of Christians during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries? How did non-elite men and women, enslaved, freed, and free persons, who did not renounce...
It was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages. After the move of the Empire's capital to Constantinople in the fourth century...
Art and religion are both well-attested and much-studied aspects of ancient Greek life, yet their relationship is not perfectly understood. Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece presents...
The structures of the late ancient Visigothic kingdom of Iberia were rooted in those of Roman Hispania, Santiago Castellanos argues, but Catholic bishops subsequently produced a narrative of process...
