wyszukanych pozycji: 11
A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity
ISBN: 9780452282612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Evokes the sights and sounds of the ancient world with daring and imagination An intellectual tour-de-force that challenges us to see the history of Christianity through the eyes of those who actually lived it. Los Angeles Times
In this provocative, irresistibly entertaining book, Keith Hopkins takes readers back in time to explore the roots of Christianity in ancient Rome. Combining exacting scholarship with dazzling invention, Hopkins challenges our perceptions about religion, the historical Jesus, and the way history is written. He puts us in touch with what he calls... Evokes the sights and sounds of the ancient world with daring and imagination An intellectual tour-de-force that challenges us to see the history of C...
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129,78 zł |
Conquerors and Slaves
ISBN: 9780521281812 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The enormous size of the Roman empire and the length of time it endured call for an understanding of the institutions which sustained it. In this book, Keith Hopkins, who is both classicist and sociologist, uses various sociological concepts and methods to gain new insights into how traditional Roman institutions changed as the Romans acquired their empire. He examines the chain reactions resulting from increased wealth; various aspects of slavery, especially manumission and the cost of freedom; the curious phenomenon of the political power wielded by eunuchs at court; and in the final...
The enormous size of the Roman empire and the length of time it endured call for an understanding of the institutions which sustained it. In this book...
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257,34 zł |
The Colosseum
ISBN: 9781846684708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among them). Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and other games that were held there; the training of the gladiators; the audiences who revelled in the games, the emperors who staged them and the critics. And the strange after story - the Colosseum... The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a tim... |
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56,48 zł |
Death and Renewal: Volume 2: Sociological Studies in Roman History
ISBN: 9780521271172 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a volume of studies concerned with death and its impact on the social order. The first topic considered is gladiatorial combat; not merely popular entertainment, it was also an important element in Roman politics. The book then investigates the composition of the political elite in the late Republic and Principate (249 BC AD 235), showing that ideals of hereditary succession disguised high rates of social mobility. The final chapter ranges over aristocratic death rituals and tombs, funerals and ghost stories, to the search for immortality and the power of the Roman dead in...
This is a volume of studies concerned with death and its impact on the social order. The first topic considered is gladiatorial combat; not merely pop...
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257,34 zł |
Bubbles of Time
ISBN: 9781953469786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,32 zł |
Bubbles of Time
ISBN: 9781953469793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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130,77 zł |
Marisa's World
ISBN: 9780996613125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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47,69 zł |
Cityfall
ISBN: 9781957146034 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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125,93 zł |
Perri's Gates
ISBN: 9780996613118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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45,38 zł |
Sociological Studies in Roman History
ISBN: 9781009353786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Collects fourteen important essays of Cambridge sociologist Keith Hopkins - one of the most radical, innovative and influential Roman historians of his generation. It will appeal to all those interested in Roman history and sociology and particularly to those eager to experience challenging and controversial approaches to understanding the past.
Collects fourteen important essays of Cambridge sociologist Keith Hopkins - one of the most radical, innovative and influential Roman historians of hi...
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139,69 zł |
Sociological Studies in Roman History
ISBN: 9781107018914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Keith Hopkins was a sociologist and Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge from 1985 to 2001. He is widely recognised as one of the most radical, innovative and influential Roman historians of his generation. This volume presents fourteen of Hopkins' essays on an impressive range of subjects: contraception, demography, economic history, slavery, literacy, imperial power, Roman religion, Early Christianity, and the social and political structures of the ancient world. The papers have been re-edited and revised with accompanying essays by Hopkins' colleagues, friends and former students....
Keith Hopkins was a sociologist and Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge from 1985 to 2001. He is widely recognised as one of the most radical, i...
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683,40 zł |