A complete geographical and thematic overview of the village in an antiquity and its role in the rise of Christianity. The volume begins with a state-of-question introduction by Thomas Robinson assessing the interrelation of the village and city with the rise of earl... Lees meer.

The early Middle Ages is not a period traditionally associated with free speech. It is still widely held that free speech declined towards the end of Antiquity disappearing completely at the beginning of the Middle Ages and only re-emerging in the Renaissance when pe... Lees meer.

Considers classical reception in the works of women writers of the long seventeenth century in France to demonstrate how their engagements with the literature and traditions of classical antiquity were connected with the fashioning of literary identities and the product... Lees meer.

A definitive new history of the origins evolution and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis or city-state was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship freedom and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and... Lees meer.

The first ever critical edition and complete translation of the Syriac Life of Saint Simeon of the Olives who was an abbot of Qartmin Monastery in Tur Abdin and a bishop of the city of Harran in the late seventh and early eighth century AD. The first ever critical e... Lees meer.

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A definitive new history of the origins evolution and scope of the ancient Greek city-state The Greek polis or city-state was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship freedom and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and... Lees meer.

Responding to the profound challenges of our times this book provides a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long historical perspective from the second millennium BCE and even earlier up to early modernity. Individual chapt... Lees meer.

It is commonly assumed that the creation story of Genesis and its chronology were the only narratives openly available in medieval and early modern Europe and that the discovery of geological time in the eighteenth century came as a momentous breakthrough that shook the... Lees meer.

This study focuses on the diversity with which early medieval society formed not only among macro European zones but also within individual areas and thus on the need to look beyond the models elaborated during a phase in which archaeological sources were still fragmen... Lees meer.

This revisionist work challenges the assumption that deep time was discovered during the Enlightenment by showing that the possibility of an old or even eternal Earth circulated freely in medieval and early modern Europe even in popular works intended for a large pub... Lees meer.

This collection of papers discusses analyzes and criticizes modern interpretations of early medieval rituals and their material correlates. Some deal with rituals relating to death life cycles and the circulation in other contexts of objects otherwise used in the buri... Lees meer.

This first volume of a three-volume anthology of women s writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era covers the age of Roman Antiquity and early Christianity. It provides texts contexts and translations of a wide variety of works including dramatic poeti... Lees meer.

The task of philosophy the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once wrote is to overturn Platonism . This might be true if only we could define what Platonism is. In this clear and accessible book Mauro Bonazzi provides the first comprehensive introduction to ancient... Lees meer.

An analysis of Islam in India focusing on the Hindu perspective. It studies the Hindu caste system from its beginnings in antiquity to a guild-like village caste and professional caste system in the Middle Ages and its continuance within Muslim and colonial societies.... Lees meer.