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This book examines how sleep and dreams were approached in early Greek thought highlighting the theories of the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers on both phenomena as more varied complex and substantial than is usually credited. It explores how the Presocratic natu... Lees meer.

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Aristotle and Early Christian Thought is the first book in English to give a synoptic account of the slow appropriation of Aristotelian thought in the Christian world from the second to the sixth centuries. In studies of early Christian thought philosophy is oft... Lees meer.

In the last few years a reconsideration of the past of the ancients and of the concepts correlated to it e.g. the . classical has been important to many scholars. The present volume adds to the range of perspectives on the antique by expanding research to include diff... Lees meer.

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If you want to discover the captivating history of Europe then keep reading... Five captivating manuscripts in one book. European History. A Captivating Guide to the History of Europe Starting from the Neanderthals Through to the Roman Empire and the End of the Cold... Lees meer.

A fresh interpretation of an enigmatic illumination and its contexts. The Ashburnham Pentateuch is an early medieval manuscript of uncertain provenance which has puzzled and intrigued scholars since the nineteenth century. Its first image which depicts the Genesis cre... Lees meer.

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This book demonstrates that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west and argues that consequently attempts to define study or locate martyrdom must move away from conceptualizations that require or center on death. After... Lees meer.

This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages third to ninth centuries AD . It suggests that the tenacious persistence of leading cities across most of the Roman world is... Lees meer.

Comparing amulets over time and space this volume focuses on the function of written words on these fascinating artefacts. Ranging from Roman Egypt to the Middle Ages and the Modern period this book provides an overview on these artefacts in the Mediterranean world an... Lees meer.

This book approaches the manifestation and evolution of the idea of Rome as an expression of Roman patriotism and as an urban archetype of utopia in late Roman thought in a period extending from AD 357 to 417. Within this period of about a human lifetime the concepts... Lees meer.

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.