Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity. The Pahlavi Version of the Yasna Hapta?H?Iti, Hardback - Arash Zeini

Zeini challenges the view that considers the Zand's study an auxiliary science to Avestan studies, framing the text instead within the exegetical c...

Explores power relations in the households, schools, and monasteries of late antiquity in light of social theory, in a way that will be of interest...

This is the first general book on Greek and Latin letter-writing in Late Antiquity (400300-600 CE). Allen and Neil examine early Christian Greek an...

This book is essential reading for understanding what happened to Rome at the end of antiquity. By focusing on the actions of senatorial aristocrat...

Reducere. Zoroastrianism, or more natively Mazdayasna, is one of the world's oldest religions, "combining a cosmogonic dualism and eschatological monotheism ...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): Jessica RichardsonIllustration(s): 240 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 380Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

With trademark versatility and brilliance, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill explores how Christianity transformed humanity's relationship w...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire...

DescriptionThis volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origi...

The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity - Aziz Al-Azmeh

Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis socie...

Explores how ancient and late antique Christianity traveled through Asia by examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antiq...

An innovative approach to the study of an under-appreciated topic of the place of art in ancient religion and will be essential reading for researc...

A comprehensive and innovative reconstruction of the emergence of early Muslim religion and polity in their historical, religious and ethnological ...

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Jean-Luc FournetIllustration(s): 37 b/w illus. 3 tables. 1 map.Number of pages: 224Collection: The ...

This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates th...

Rabbinic stories portraying heretics (minim) typically involve a conflict over biblical interpretation. Using previously untapped Christian materia...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and west...

This book argues that Cicero deserves to be spoken of with more respect and to be studied with greater care. Using Plato's influence on Cicero's li...

Daily Life in Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive study of lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from c.250-600 CE. Each of the six topi...

Reducere. The ancient philosophy, in its original Orphico-Pythagorean and Platonic form, is not simply a way of life in accordance with the divine or human i...

Reducere. In The Other Judaisms of Late Antiquity the late Alan F. Segal is at his very best. This reissued and expanded edition--now containing his celebrat...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Peter BrownIllustration(s): 113 Illustrations, black and white; 17 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 21...

Reducere. In this major theoretical and methodological statement on the history of religions, Jonathan Z. Smith shows how convert apologetic agendas can dict...

Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis socie...

The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity. The C...

The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced p...