Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - Rome

This volume results from the international research project 'The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity (325?c.600)'. The project is a collaboration between the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, the Seminar fur Kirchengeschichte at the University of Halle, and the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University. Ten chapters of the volume are revised versions of papers delivered at the XVII International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford in 2015. The three chapters of the first part of the volume discuss the question of -Clerical Exile...

Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy brings together some of the English-speaking world s leading Constantinian scholars for an interdisciplinary study of the life and legacy of the first Christian emperor. For many, he remains a "sign of contradiction" (Luke 2:34) whose life and legacy generate intense debate. He was the first Christian emperor, protector of the Church, and eventually remembered as "equal to the apostles" for bringing about the Christianization of the Empire. Yet there is another side to Constantine s legacy, one that was often neglected by his...

Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jorg Rupke, one of the world's leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion with individual appropriations evident at the heart of such rituals as praying, dedicating, making vows, and reading. On Roman Religion definitively dismantles previous approaches that depicted religious practice as uniform and static. Juxtaposing very different, strategic, and even...

This book pursues a strand in the history of thought ranging from codified statutes to looser social expectations that uses particulars, more specifically examples, to produce norms. Much intellectual history takes ancient Greece as a point of departure. But the practice of exemplarity is historically rooted firmly in ancient Roman rhetoric, oratory, literature, and law genres that also secured its transmission. Their pragmatic approach results in a conceptualization of politics, social organization, philosophy, and law that is derived from the concrete. It is commonly supposed that, with...

Das Jahrbuch und die Begleitreihe Millennium-Studien wollen Grenzen uberschreiten, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Raumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Millennium ist international, transdisziplinar und epochenubergreifend ausgerichtet. Das Herausgebergremium und der Beirat reprasentieren ein breites Spektrum von Fachern: Kunst- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beitrage kommen ebenso zu ihrem Rechtwie historische, theologische und philosophische, Beitrage zu den lateinischen und griechischen Kulturen ebenso wie zu den orientalischen.

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