Two Romes

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• The city of Constantinople was named New Rome or Second Rome very soon after its foundation in AD 324; over the next two hundred years it replaced the... Lees meer

Disciplining Christians

Jennifer Ebbeler

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• Disciplining Christians reconsiders several of Augustine's most well-known letter exchanges, including his famously controversial correspondence with ... Lees meer

Worshippers of the Gods

Mattias P Gassman

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• Worshippers of the Gods tells how the Latin writers who witnessed the political and social rise of Christianity rethought the role of traditional reli... Lees meer

The Qur'an and Late Antiquity

Angelika Neuwirth

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam. Typical exegesis of the Qur'an treats the text te... Lees meer

Christians in Conversation

Alberto Rigolio

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• This book addresses a particular and little-known form of writing, the prose dialogue, during the Late Antique period, when Christian authors adopted ... Lees meer

Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus

Alexander O'Hara

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right. Born ... Lees meer

Explaining the Cosmos

Michael W Champion

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• Explaining the Cosmos analyzes the writings of three thinkers associated with Gaza: Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius. Together, they offer a case study... Lees meer

Poetics of Late Latin Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one... Lees meer

The Homeric Centos

Anna Lefteratou

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• The Homeric Centos , a poem that is Homeric in style and biblical in theme, is a dramatic illustration of the creative cultural and religious dialogue... Lees meer

Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350-450

Maijastina Kahlos

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity reconsiders the religious history of the late Roman Empire, focusing on the shifting position of dissenting religi... Lees meer

Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity

Michael Bland Simmons

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, ... Lees meer

Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe

Alexander O'Hara

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• The period 550 to 750 was one in which monastic culture became more firmly entrenched in Western Europe. The role of monasteries and their relationshi... Lees meer

History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East gathers together the work of distinguished historians and early career scholars with a broad range ... Lees meer

Rome's Holy Mountain

Jason Moralee

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome. Yet in the long history of the Roman state it was the empire's holy mountain. The ... Lees meer

Two Romes

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• The city of Constantinople was named New Rome or Second Rome very soon after its foundation in AD 324; over the next two hundred years it replaced the... Lees meer

Sacred Stimulus

Galit Noga-Banai

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• Sacred Stimulus offers a thorough exploration of Jerusalem's role in the formation and formulation of Christian art in Rome during the fourth and fift... Lees meer

Contested Monarchy

Wienand Johannes

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a ... Lees meer

Rome's Holy Mountain

Jason Moralee

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome. Yet in the long history of the Roman state it was the empire's holy mountain. The ... Lees meer

The Arabic Hermes

Kevin Van Bladel

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to ... Lees meer